THE City of Kingston is committed to finding solutions to improve waste disposal and recycling opportunities for the community. For more than a year, Kingston have provided households with food and organic waste disposal bins, which allow food waste to be processed into usable compost. They have been rolling out additional recycling bins in public spaces to increase opportunities for recycling. Kingston Mayor Steve Staikos said they are also looking at how we can potentially utilise residual household waste that cannot go into either the food and organic bin or the comingled recycling. “We are looking at how we could…
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KINGSTON Council has been successful in securing state funding from the Local Sports Infrastructure Fund to help upgrade local facilities in Chelsea, Carrum and Bonbeach in the lead up to Summer. The Victorian Government has awarded a total of $675,000 towards four exciting projects including new outdoor netball facilities in Carrum, upgrades to Chelsea Bowls Club, safety fencing at Bonbeach Sports Reserve and further improvements to change facilities for women and girls playing sport. Kingston Mayor Steve Staikos said the funding contribution was very welcome news and would allow Council to push ahead with some important upgrades to local community…
WANTED man Christopher Hillman was arrested late last week as part of an investigation into the fatal shooting of a 34-year-old Frankston man. Heavily armed police swooped on the 43-year-old at a house in Sarno Court, Cranbourne, following a stand-off, 11pm, Friday 24 September. He was treated by paramedics at the scene and was under police guard in hospital over the weekend. He is expected to be interviewed by Homicide Squad detectives this week. Two other people at the house at the time were not injured and left prior to the arrest. Police had appealed for information on Hillman’s whereabouts…
Homicide Squad detectives are appealing for public assistance to locate Christopher Hillman following the death of a man in Frankston on Saturday. Hillman is wanted by police after the body of a 34-year-old man was located in a house on Rassay Court about 9.30pm on Saturday, 18 September. Police had been called to the premises to conduct a welfare check. The death continues to be treated as suspicious. Investigators also believe the parties were known to each other. Detectives from the Homicide Squad and a number of other police units have conducted a significant search over the past few days…
IT’S springtime. Along with all the sunshine, flowers and new life that comes with the change of the season, we’d like to remind community members to be cautious around protective birds, who will swoop anyone they think is a danger to their nests and offspring. Native birds can swoop in parks, gardens, along bike tracks, in school yards – anywhere birds are nesting. Kingston Mayor Cr Steve Staikos said that the best ways to avoid being swooped, are to plan ahead before heading out and to identify well-known local swoop sites. “Over this nesting season we urge community members to…