30 Sep 08 | Frankston YCW's Ben Lean has won the 2008 Fairfax Community Newspapers Peninsula Young Gun award for the best rising star in the MPNFL's Peninsula division.
30 Sep 08 | A NEW era is dawning at the Mornington Racing Club, with outgoing chief executive Michael Browell being replaced by former marketing manager Fraser Bayne.
30 Sep 08 | YOUNG Frankston cyclist Calvin Watson has earned a place on the Australian Road Cycling development squad, the elite precursor to the Pro Tour team that competes in the Tour de France.
30 Sep 08 | TELSTRA Peninsula general manager Richard Butler has been made redundant as part of the telco's plan to cut 800 jobs across Australia.
30 Sep 08 | KOALAS in Somers and Merricks are starving due to loss of food trees cleared by homeowners, says a Mornington Peninsula wildlife carer.
30 Sep 08 | DUNKLEY MP Bruce Billson has been moved to the outer shadow ministry while Flinders MP Greg Hunt retained the environment portfolio in the new shadow cabinet.
30 Sep 08 | A DETECTIVE'S nose for crime has led to a 23-year-old Cranbourne man being charged with selling drugs from a room in a Frankston hotel.
30 Sep 08 | THE Victorian Electoral Commission is calling on Frankston and Mornington Peninsula residents to enrol to vote for November's council elections.
30 Sep 08 | THE dangerous stink over methane gas leaking out of the old Cranbourne tip has focused attention on Frankston Council's former landfill site in McClelland Drive.
30 Sep 08 | HASTING-based Mariah Hovercraft is being wooed to move to distant shores by the City of Geelong, and Queensland, New South Wales and Western Australian governments.
30 Sep 08 | DESPITE smoking bans at venues, revenue from poker machines on the Mornington Peninsula continues to rise.
30 Sep 08 | POLICE have extended an operation aimed at catching
motorists breaking road rules outside schools after being frustrated by drivers ignoring speed limits.
30 Sep 08 | CRIB Point children showed their green thumbs at the Peninsula Health community garden workshop.
30 Sep 08 | THE Pink Ladies at Frankston Hospital have surpassed themselves. The auxiliary has raised another $400,000 for the hospital, bringing its contribution to $5.2 million for hospital projects over the past 40 years.
30 Sep 08 | SAGES Cottage Farm at Baxter will benefit from Esso's Long Island Point plant when 12 employees swap their normal work duties for the annual Day of Caring volunteer gardening program on October 15.
30 Sep 08 | MORNINGTON Peninsula Shire library has received a welcome budget boost, with annual funding being increased 3.3per cent to $771,640.
23 Sep 08 | MELISSA Barbieri, goalkeeper for the Australian women's soccer team the Matildas, was among the sportsmen and women to visit Aldercourt Primary School on Thursday as part of the Connecting Through Sport program.
23 Sep 08 | FRANKSTON High School's year 8 boys football team won consecutive state championships in the Victorian Secondary Schools Sports Association grand final at Victoria Park, Abbotsford.
23 Sep 08 | THE Frankston Blues under-16 boys team have won the 2008 championship despite a season blighted with injuries and a fifth-placed finish in the home and away series.
23 Sep 08 | A NEW $1.2 million pavilion has been opened at the Peninsula Hockey Centre at the Monash University campus, Frankston.