A NEW station for Keysborough CFA will be built if the Liberals win this month’s state election. The state opposition has announced it will spend $7 million on relocating the Keysborough CFA unit. In a statement it said that the “exciting new location will be the first innovative CFA hub and service the brigades within Greater Dandenong, including providing a place volunteer members from Springvale can call their home as an integrated entity within the Greater Dandenong municipality.” “Keysborough Fire Brigade do a wonderful job protecting our community all year round and this commitment of $7 million from a Liberals…
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THE state government and opposition have both promised to spend $12.6 million upgrading Mordialloc College if successful at this month’s election. The Victorian Liberals say the money would be used for a new building to house science, technology, engineering, and maths classes. Mordialloc College is a high school with more than 1200 students. Mordialloc MP Tim Richardson said “it was great to visit Mordi again with premier Dan Andrews to announce that a re-elected Victorian Labor Government will deliver $12.6 million to Mordi College, to support the schools growth and help them deliver world class education for generations to come.”…
WHEN Sandra Williams and John Kortholt went to a dance in their youth, they might not have known how their lives would change forever. Sandra Williams was born in Chelsea in 1943. John Kortholt was born in Holland in 1937 and emigrated when he was 14. The two met at the dance and soon fell in love. The happy couple celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary with family and friends last week. The couple married at Edithvale Methodist Church on 3 November 1962. They went on to buy a home on Lochiel Avenue and have lived in Edithvale ever since. Sandra…
A Cranbourne North woman and a Carrum Downs man are facing a raft of drug and weapons charges as police across Melbourne’s outer south-eastern suburbs executed two unrelated early morning search warrants on Tuesday 8 November. Drugs alleged to be methylamphetamine, 1,4-butendiol, ketamine and ecstasy were seized by police, along with two firearms, two knives and several allegedly stolen number plates. Supported by the Dandenong Divisional Response Unit, Cranbourne police executed a search warrant at approximately 5.50am at a residential address in Llewellyn Court, Cranbourne North where they arrested a 38-year-old Cranbourne North woman. At about 8.10am, Mornington Peninsula Divisional…
GREEN bin lids in Frankston will be replaced during upcoming collections. Residents will have one of their green lids replaced with a red lid. The red bins will be used for rubbish, green for food and garden waste, and yellow for recycling. Frankston Council says the “relatively low-cost change” will help residents understand what waste goes into which bin. “The changes make it easier for residents to identify where their waste and recycling should go, further reducing resource loss that occurs when items are incorrectly placed in bins,” the mayor Nathan Conroy said. “We needed a clear message on which…