A COMPACT suburban garden in Frankston grown over the last four years will open for the final time this weekend. Heartland, keen horticulturalist Jac Semmler’s garden, will open on 3 December and 4 December. It features a perennial garden, a rain-fed verge garden, a walled garden with pizza oven, an outdoor bath and potting shed, a vegie patch, cut flowers, chickens, and a small orchard. Semmler says that the garden reflects her “broad encompassing love of all different kinds of plants, as you will see from Australian wildflowers through to woodland specimens.” “The plants I grow also catalogue beautiful relationships…
Author: Bayside News
A CAMPAIGN highlighting the effects of gender-based violence is underway. Anti-violence campaigner Phil Cleary launched Frankston’s “16 days of activism against gender-based violence” campaign last week. Cleary’s sister Vicki was murdered by her ex-boyfriend in 1987. “Women are still being murdered in situations where we could have stopped the killer. Each year around 60 families still grieve,” Cleary said. “I think women today are more likely to tell people about men’s violence. Vicki didn’t tell us that she was experiencing violence. “I had a life of football. I was a known person. If I had known about his harassment in…
SKYBUS will begin running its “peninsula express” buses to the airport from next week. SkyBus will be picking up passengers from Frankston, Chelsea, Mordialloc, Mentone, Moorabbin, Brighton, and Elsternwick on its way to the airport. The bayside bus service runs from 4 December onwards. The bus route has been suspended during the COVID-19 pandemic. SkyBus co-CEO Michael Sewards said he was “delighted” to announce its return. “We had to make some tough but necessary decisions at the onset of COVID to suspend some of our express services and this impacted the lives of many of our team who have helped…
A man is fighting for his life following a single vehicle crash in Seaford overnight. Police have been told the motorbike rider fell from his bike as he approached the intersection of Ti Tree Crescent and Centenary Street just after 10pm. At this stage it is unclear why the rider fell however police believe the rider was travelling at speed just prior to the crash. Witnesses found the 36-year-old man injured on a nature strip, where he had come to rest, amongst a number of rubbish bins put out for collection. The Seaford man was taken to hospital with suspected…
A CAR was left damaged after a road rage incident in Dingley Village earlier this month. The incident came to a close at the intersection of Dingley Bypass and Mordialloc Freeway between 7:20am and 7:30am on 2 November. It started on Thompsons Road and escalated into road rage on Mordialloc Freeway, police say. The end result of the altercation was damage to the passenger side door and rear bumper of a Mitsubishi Lancer. The other car involved was a blue Subaru WRX. Police are investigating the incident. Any witnesses can contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or make a…