A SERIES of deliberately lit fires at the Pines Flora and Fauna Reserve are being investigated by police. Investigators believe that the first fire was ignited at the Frankston North nature reserve at around 3.45pm, 24 November. A police spokesperson said on 10 December that “the fire was started in the long grass in the north-west corner of the reserve, just south of Ballarto Road and alongside the Peninsula Link noise barrier.” A second blaze was ignited at around 7.30am on 7 December on an embankment of the water catchment area west of the Orchard Track. As that fire was…
Author: Bayside News
RATEPAYERS will not be asked to foot the bill for a councillor’s legal fees after a local government inspectorate enquiry into his conduct. Councillors voted behind closed doors on 18 November to use ratepayer money to reimburse Cr Colin Hampton $3630 in legal fees. Cr Hampton was the subject of a local government inspectorate inquiry, but was cleared of wrongdoing (“Ratepayers asked to pay for legal fees”, The Times, 25/11/19). Councillors voted to rescind that decision at their 16 December meeting. Crs Glenn Aitken, Kris Bolam, Quinn McCormack, and Michael O’Reilly voted to make Cr Hampton pay his own legal…
By Barry Morris TUCKED away in a closed-up shed at the back of a Mornington Peninsula property rests a cardboard box of mouldy, moth-eaten papers and documents from long ago. Talk about a bygone era – an old copy of Scouting for Boys written by the movement’s founder Lord Robert Baden-Powell, or B-P for short. Baden-Powell became a hero in Britain for his role in the relief of the besieged town of Mafeking in South Africa during the Boer War at the end of the 19th century. Today, there’s a street named after him that traverses Frankston South and Mt…
MANAGEMENT at Karingal Hub have announced that they are proceeding with redevelopment works at the shopping centre in 2020. “We are officially moving ahead with our exciting redevelopment, with work to start early next year,” they announced on social media. “We’ll welcome the addition of Coles and Aldi to open alongside our much-loved Big W, Village Cinemas and a fully refurbished Woolworths, as well as plenty of new free parking.” The centre is managed by ISPT Property, who had their application for the $62 million redevelopment approved by Frankston Council at an October 2018 meeting. “This is excellent news that…
THE St Kilda Football Club are set to open an academy at Monterey Secondary College in Frankston. The football club will design a curriculum for the academy, aiming to take in their first students in 2021. St Kilda community general manager Lisa Laing said the partnership between the club and the school “was a great opportunity to create a strong program for the region’s aspiring young footballers.” “We’re really excited to be playing such a key role in helping the school create a first class football curriculum,” she said. “We look forward to working with the team at Monterey Secondary…