The Arena family are local grocers and providores who have speed Italian sunshine on Mosman tables, with the ripest tomatoes and the finest Focaccia, for 60 years.

From teetering Louboutins to that favourite pair of R.M. Williams boots, Carl Aloisio has been saving our soles for generations. But this week, the lower North Shore’s most trusted shoe maker and cobbler will hand up his apron for the final time.

If you’ve ever wanted to live like a rock star, now’s your chance. This ultra-luxe residence at 2 Bay View St, Lavender Bay has just hit the market, and it’s the most expensive home for sale on the lower north shore this year.

Not everyone wins Australian journalism’s highest honour, a Walkley Award. And not everyone can say they’ve been commissioned by the Federal Government, to write the narrative history of our nations Parliament. But Gavin Souter can.

Our local history series continues, with Robert Simeon taking a look back at the life and times of local builders Smith & Cabban, who rose to fame in the early 1900’s with their landmark Mosman “Merchant Mansions”.

When she wanted to play Australian Rules football eight years ago, Erin McKinnon couldn’t find a female team anywhere in Sydney. So, she had the idea to create her own, somehow convincing a few Mosman school mates to field a team.