STUDENTS from Frankston Heights Primary School planted hundreds of trees across Wallace Reserve in Frankston last week. The students teamed up with The Friends of Wallace Reserve for a Schools Tree Planting Day event on 20 July. Friends of Wallace Reserve President Tony Gustus said the students “enjoyed their excursion through the reserve to the planting site. The students found out about the different species using the reserve, checked out the progress of their previous years’ planting, and then got on to planting out the specially prepared area. “We see ourselves as a truly community-oriented organisation, where everyone has the…
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EXPANDED police patrols at Bayside Shopping Centre are set to continue into the next school holidays and into future busy periods. Victoria Police launched “Operation Pulse” last December, dedicating more police resources to shopping centres statewide. Since December more than 1600 people have been arrested as part of the operation. In a statement, Victoria Police said “plans are underway to ensure the expanded approach to all nine centres will occur during the next school holidays and high demand periods. This includes Pacific Werribee, Bayside Frankston, Highpoint, Fountain Gate, Northland, Watergardens, Southland, Eastland and key CBD retail locations in Geelong. “All…
RUGBY By David Burke THE special connection between Peninsula Dolphins and HMAS Cerberus saw the men’s senior team take to the field at Cerberus for the first time this season to take on The Frankston Raiders last Saturday afternoon (25 July) It was a breezy afternoon, and with no rain to speak of there was a good-sized crowd for both sides. However, the Peninsula Dolphins had a lot to fight for, beyond a win for the home crowd. The team has been working hard this season to control the match through the middle of the field and using their forwards…
Compiled by Cameron McCullough THREE men were detained, and goods and a motor car seized by police in a raid of a house in Murcott street, Carrum, at 7am last Saturday. The goods included a cabinet gramophone and records, cutlery, crockery, tools, groceries, tins of petrol and lubricating oil, a bag of clothing, tinned fish, a box of tea, a mop, a hose, and other articles, which it is alleged are the proceeds of extensive shopbreaking. In the yard at the rear of the house Lyons found a Master Six Buick car, No. 67,553. Inquiries later revealed that this car…
A ROUNDTABLE forum to discuss proposals to reduce family violence will be held in Frankston in the coming weeks. Dunkley MP Jodie Belyea last week confirmed that her electorate would host a “Domestic and Family Violence Roundtable” event. She said in a social media post that the need for serious discussions has been emphasised by the deaths of four women and girls in the last week. “37 women have allegedly been killed by a partner or former partner in 2026 so far. These aren’t just statistics. They were daughters, mothers, sisters, friends and members of our communities,” Belyea said. “As…