THERE were no photos of girls attending Frankston area schools on a website targeting Australian schoolgirls as part of a vile trade of nude snaps of women without their knowledge. The overseas-hosted site where people publicly swapped images of nude women was reportedly set up in December and taken offline Friday (19 August) amid fears underage girls’ private photos sent to friends or boyfriends were subsequently exposed to the online world. While a person posting on the site last week specifically sought nude photos of students from two Frankston area schools The Times understands none were ever uploaded to the…
Author: Neil Walker
BUILDING wind turbines at an Aspendale school showered in awards in recent months for a sustainability precinct built within its grounds may cause an environmental eyesore for neighbours according to some nearby residents. St Louis de Montfort Primary School has lodged a planning application with Kingston Council to install two 12-metre tall wind turbine towers in the midst of the school grounds near a sustainability centre building. More than 40 objections to the propeller blade powered wind turbines have been received ahead of council deliberations on the planning application next Monday (22 August). Graeme Rimmer is one of several neighbours…
ONGOING maintenance costs at ageing buildings could force the Uniting Church to sell a place of worship in Kingston. The church has three places of worship in Kingston – at Edithvale, Chelsea and Carrum – and when Reverend Claire Dawe was contacted by The News she said parishioners will be consulted before any church is sold. “We’ve got major building problems with the maintenance and a congregation across three churches that really want to do mission and outreach and spend their time with local people in the community doing some projects rather than building maintenance,” she said. “We’re all one…
UPDATE 16 August: Premier Daniel Andrews told media this morning at a press conference that several councils “failed to comply with the law of our state” but the Labor state government will look at options to change the law so councillors are not disqualified “in the interests of ratepayers”. Acting Local Government Minister Richard Wynne, the state Minister for Planning, subsequently said new legislation will be introduced into Parliament to allow councillors to correctly sign an amended code of conduct before a new deadline of 22 February next year. MORE than 100 councillors across Victoria – including all nine at Frankston…
LONG-RUNNING attempts to redevelop the site of the former Ambassador Hotel function centre are set to run for at least another couple of years. Councillors at this month’s public council meeting last Monday (8 August) unanimously voted to allow a further extension until March next year. A planning permit to build a four-storey apartment complex at the 325 Nepean Hwy, Frankston site after previous owners were unable to begin construction had lapsed. Planning consultant Richard Umbers, on behalf of mortgagee Jack Gringlas of the Jadig Group, asked councillors for an extension of time on the planning permit so the land…