On weekends in summer you’ll normally find Reagan Morel on the sand with a gaggle…
Meagan O’Hehir and Heather Cust met years before cancer entered either of their lives, crossing paths on the netball courts of the Rosebud Football Netball Club. It would take a diagnosis, then another, to turn a passing acquaintance into a partnership that now reaches dozens of peninsula families a year.
By day, Mark Harvey’s hands are wrapped around the wheel of a truck and trailer, hauling products from quarries from near and far back to Dromana. By night, back home in Hastings, those same hands are bending old spoons and forks into rings, bangles and pendants under the business name Spoontanious.
For anyone reading this who is grieving and can’t yet picture surviving it, Chantelle Ross wants them to know something simple. “Don’t think about next month or next year. Just focus on today. And don’t try to carry it alone. Even if it doesn’t feel like it right now, there is hope.”
From his first primary school cross country race, to the start line at the 2026 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Archie Hewett’s path to representing Australia has demanded everything he has.
The Peninsula Light Operatic Society, as it was first known, was born in 1962. Today, the name has changed, the venues have changed, and the repertoire has evolved dramatically, but the DNA remains the same: talented people from across Melbourne and the peninsula, working together to put something extraordinary on stage.
Onda, the new coastal Mediterranean dining room built on pylons over Port Phillip Bay inside the brand-new Sorrento Ferry Terminal, is the kind of place that seems almost too good to be true with floor-to-ceiling windows, uninterrupted water views, and a pizza oven crackling at the heart of the kitchen.
Megan Smithies has spent decades making music – as a professional cellist she still performs today, and as president of the Peninsula Music Society (PMS), she ensures others get the same chance. It’s a role she clearly relishes.