Champion Paralympic boccia player Jamieson Leeson has made Australia proud Freshly back from her most successful performance to date, Jamieson Leeson is sporting a silver medal. Not only that, but she’s the first Australian Paralympic female boccia player to ever to...

Condemned Manly cottage part of cycling history Northern Beaches Council recently approved a development in Whistler Street, Manly which will result in the demolition of a tiny timber cottage. It was built in 1899 by Edward Hind, a notable carpenter and...

Former Pittwater MP John Brogden sheds a light on suicide in his new book Warning: This article mentions suicide. For help, contact Lifeline on 13 1114; text 0477 131 141 or chat at lifeline.org.au It was hope bound up in a flood...

May Gibbs was Australia’s first female cartoonist Children’s comic strips became popular in Australia from the 1920s, with the invention of Ginger Meggs and Fatty Finn. Ginger Meggs was created in 1921 by Jimmy Bancks for the Sunday Sun. Fatty Finn...

Taking a ride on Manly Cove was historically a fun activity From the late 1920s into the 1960s, visitors to Manly Cove could take a joy ride in a sleek, fast speedboat for a modest fee. Various competing entrepreneurs were involved. Once...

Australians of the Year Richard Scolyer and Georgina Long – the Peninsula Living September cover stars –met His Majesty King Charles III at Melonoma Institute Australia (MIA) in Wollstonecraft on Tuesday. The King spent 30 minutes at the institute where he...