DURING the 1960’s the Prahran Methodist Mission, assisted by the local community, undertook this project which involved thousands of working…
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A COMMEMORATION to mark the 125th anniversary of the drowning of 15 Mornington Football Club players in 1892 will be…
POPPIES picked on Flanders Fields, France, during WWI have been found in the pages of a book donated to the…
ALAN Day, pictured, was last week again preparing to join the ranks of veterans being driven around the MCG before…
IT’s just a hat – a Digger’s slouch hat – but the memories it stirs in Mornington veteran Laurie Hill…
A NEW memorial will be unveiled during Tuesday’s Anzac service at Balnarring. The memorial comes four years after Commander Matt…
AN afternoon tea for Peter and Kathie Strickland at Balnarring Hall in mid-March was an “acknowledgment of their considerable contribution…
ST JOSEPH’S Primary School, Crib Point, is holding a year of celebration to commemorate 90 years of catholic education in…
IT wasn’t a bird. It wasn’t a plane. People in Westall who saw an unidentified flying object hovering over the…
By Tony Duboudin A HASTINGS resident believes he can throw some light on the mystery disappearance in 1937 of the…
MEMORIES good and bad came flooding back when a former child patient of a now-dilapidated and disused Mt Eliza children’s…
ROSEBUD resident Nigel Edwards is “passionate” about helping people and his record of more than 76 years working in public…
ALMOST 75 years ago, a young Mornington lad and then 18-year-old army enlistee experienced an event that rocked Australia -…
WHAT started as a university project has turned into a film that, judging from its social media “likes”, is inspiring…
EARLY childhood teacher Lyn Knight has retired after 22 years at St Marks Uniting Church in Mornington – a playgroup…
A RYE church will celebrate its 150th birthday with a special service, 10.30am, Sunday 5 February. St Andrew’s Anglican Church,…
THERE must be something in the water at Balnarring, with three former neighbours all celebrating their 100-plus birthdays this year…
HISTORY will be back on the road next month (Sunday 5 February) as more than 1000 classic cars make their…
FRANCES Josephine Wattis was born in Ballarat on 30 November, 1916 to Charles and Patricia. Those were the days prior…
IT was 1968 and the Premier of Victoria was Henry Bolte, John Gorton was Prime Minister, Lionel Rose was world…
ONE hundred years ago this month – on 11 December 1916 – a group of Mornington residents met at the…
FORMER Dromana State School student and art prodigy Ewart Melbourne Brindle went on to become one of the most recognised…
MORNINGTON Tennis Club’s long-time life member Sylvia Pingiaro has written a history of the club, which turned 125 in April.…
IT is not hard to find a connection to surfing on the Mornington Peninsula with Australian surfing great Bernard “Midget”…
IN July, 2008 the The News printed a short obituary on Des Duguid who had passed away at the age of 76.…
OBITUARY Kenneth Jack Spunner, 24 August 1927–18 June 2016, rabbit trapper, registered hairdresser, wool valuer, dairyman, wool grower, market gardener,…
PETER Munro feels he’s near the end of a campaign to have the names of two Sorrento boys killed in…
AN “exceptionally well preserved” Aboriginal hearth has been found at Point Nepean National Park. The presence of heat retaining stones…
A MAN with a passion for history is keeping the memories of our ancestors alive. Ray Gibb, of Rosebud, has…
RYE Historical Society has completed repairs at the Old Schoolhouse, and up-graded its displays inside its small museum. As well…