WORKS are nearing completion for three major local sporting projects. Kerr Crescent Reserve, known as the Aspendale Gardens Sports Ground, and Chadwick Reserve in Dingley Village are both receiving major overhauls. Works on a new pavilion at Jack Grut Reserve in Mordialloc are also weeks away from completion. Stage one works at Chadwick Reserve will add sporting fields and lighting. Landscaping has also been undertaken as part of the project. At Aspendale Gardens Sports Ground, stage one works include creating sporting fields and car parking. The projects are ongoing during the coronavirus pandemic, with social distancing measures being enforced at…
Author: Bayside News
A MAN has been charged in relation to a hit and run that left a man dead in Dingley Village last year. On 20 December 2019, around 4.30am, a man’s body was spotted by a passerby on Spring Road. Emergency services attended but the 53-year-old man from Dingley Village had died at the scene. A few days later, a 19-year-old Dandenong South man handed himself into police and was charged with culpable driving, dangerous driving causing death, and fail to stop and render assistance. Last week a second man was arrested by police. On 6 May a 19-year-old Diamond Creek…
RESTRICTIONS put in place to stop the spread of coronavirus will start to ease from 11.59pm, 12 May. The Victorian government had outlined food and supplies, medical care and caregiving, exercise, and work or education as the only reasons to leave home during the pandemic. At a press conference on 11 May, Premier Daniel Andrews added “visiting friends and family” to the list of acceptable reasons to leave home. Gatherings of up to ten people outdoors, and up to five visitors at home will be allowed. “I know this will come as a welcome relief, but I need to be…
FRANKSTON Council has opened a call centre service to assist people who need to access services during the coronavirus pandemic. Frankston mayor Sandra Mayer said “the call centre is designed to facilitate connection with service agencies along with council services, including but not limited to meals assistance, housing and family violence supports, financial hardship services, parenting and aged services information.” “We recognise that our community’s needs are different at the moment, including that of our business community. Many residents and businesses are doing it tough and some are accessing support services for the first time,” she said. “We understand that…
FEEDBACK has opened for the development of Frankston Council’s next Domestic Animal Management Plan. The surveys prepared by council for residents include questions about cat curfews, fenced free roam areas, free roam areas on the foreshore, dogs being walked on sports ovals, cats roaming outside of their premises, and safety when walking dogs. Questions about potential changes to allow dogs in the Frankston CBD were ripped out of the consultation process by Frankston councillors at a meeting earlier this year (“Community denied say on dog ban, The Times, 17/3/20). Frankston’s Domestic Animal Management Plan must be renewed every four years.…