CHANGES to weekly bin collections are expected to be assessed by Kingston Council sometime in the next year. Knox Council caused a stir last week by announcing that it would only pick up rubbish bins fortnightly from mid-next year. It will pick up food and garden waste bins weekly instead. Bayside Council made the same switch last month. Kingston Council has confirmed that it is planning to undertake a review of its weekly bin collections within the next 12 months. For the time being it is not planning on making changes. “There are no plans to change the waste collection…
Author: Bayside News
MELBOURNE-based artist Penelope Davis creates jellyfish forms from a collage of components. Taking the detritus of contemporary technologies and combining these with organic source material such as leaves and seaweed, Davis makes casts in silicone, then uses these casts themselves as forms. The artist hand sews these ‘skins’ together to create delicate hybrid forms that resemble jellyfish. “These works reflect on, and embody, a painstaking attempt to recuperate an appreciation for the natural world, our symbiotic relationship with it, and the necessity of our shared future,” she says. Recent curated exhibitions include Divine Abstraction, Justin Art House Museum (2016), Ex-libris…
Frankston Crime Investigation Unit detectives continue to investigate and appeal for public assistance after a man armed with a firearm robbed a supermarket in Carrum Downs in 2020. Police have been told a man entered the store on Frankston-Dandenong Road and was seen loitering around before leaving about 12.30pm on Tuesday 15 September. The store attendant was outside the supermarket when it is believed the same male armed with a firearm approached him. The offender handed the attendant a bag and demanded he fill it with cash. He then followed the victim to the register and ran from the scene…
FRANKSTON Council has agreed to sell land it owns in Carrum Downs to help the state government complete the duplication of Lathams Road. Council has agreed to sell 135 square metres of land to the Department of Transport for $35,500. Council estimates that the narrow pieces of land have not been used since at least 1999. The report on the sale prepared by council officers read that the land is zoned industrial. “In this case the land proposed for sale was initially set aside for narrowly designed purposes as either a tree or a plantation reserve. Both types of reserve…
FRANKSTON Council is not stopping its weekly rubbish bin collection yet. Knox Council caused a stir last week when it announced that it would only pick up rubbish bins fortnightly from mid-next year. It will pick up a food and garden waste bin weekly instead. The Times asked Frankston Council if it planned to change its bin collection strategy too. In a statement, the mayor Nathan Conroy said that the weekly bin collections remain unchanged “at this stage”. “Any changes to the household kerbside collection services will involve engagement with the community as part of the development of our waste…