Stories

A sporting life

By Joe Novella  Photos Gary Sissons Rosebud’s Maxine Wauchope has helped shape the sport of netball on the peninsula like no other. The current Head Coach of Mornington Football Netball Club and…

Doing it for Lyndon

By Cameron McCullough  Photos Supplied Among the thousands who braved ‘the hill’ in this year’s Arthurs Seat Challenge, one group stood out. In fact, they have won the ‘largest community team entry’…

Wonder Woman Walkers

By Erica Louise  Photos Yanni & Supplied For the past four years, Helen Powell, together with her team of Wonder Women, has powered along the coast of the Mornington Peninsula to fight…

Plant it for the Planet

By Melissa McCullough  Photos Yanni Brothers Benjamin and Dylan Presutti are going to change the world. Or, at least, how people drink their takeaway coffee. Dad (Alex), mum (Chelsea) and their kids…

Environmental mermaid

By Erica Louise Photos Yanni Josie Jones is Mornington Peninsula’s very own environmental superhero, casting her net of compassion across the coastal town of Rye. Not to catch marine life; in fact…

A flare for the dramatic

By Cameron McCullough Photos Yanni & supplied Imagine a job where you get to set off fireworks for a living. It sounds like every kid’s dream gig, but for Balnarring’s Rusty Johnson,…

Wind of change

By Melissa McCullough On 11th November Australians come together to remember the armed forces who have died in the line of duty, but for Rebecca Tyler, 11th November is a day she’d…

Hail to the King

Richard Everist was a Hastings football legend and businessman, and his passing on 14 January, at age 81, left a scar not only on his family, but the entire town of Hastings.…

Caulfield Cup Dream

David Brideoake has represented Australia at the Olympics and trained multiple Group 1 winners, but the Mornington-based horseman ranks winning this year’s Ladbrokes Mornington Cup (2400m) with Self Sense as one of…

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