A PETITION with over 1000 signatures was submitted to Kingston Council this week flagging concerns with the redesign of Mentone Parade. Cr Geoff Gledhill presented the petition to the CEO, declaring the issue a “matter of urgency”. “1000 people put their name to something that is of grave concern to them. This is in relation to changes that council has made to traffic flow in Mentone. Traders, shoppers, students, those attending local schools, and people in general have found the changes awkward and difficult to cope with,” Cr Gledhill said. “We set about to improve conditions in Mentone, and we’re…
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KINGSTON Council passed their 2019/2020 budget at this week’s council meeting, but not before it kicked off another debate about the Bay Trail. Cr Tamsin Bearlsey said “I’m very uncomfortable with this budget.” “I’m really concerned about how this budget is misleading about the actual cost of the Bay Trail. It mentions a figure that the Bay Trail is to cost $4.4 million, but at the last council meeting we just awarded a $5.4 million contract,” she said. “A project that was supposed to cost in its entirety $2.7 million in 2017 has blown out to over $8 million, that…
Detectives from Frankston Crime Investigation Unit are appealing for public assistance to help to identify two women following thefts in Frankston earlier this month. Investigators have been told a handbag was stolen from the women’s change room at an aquatic centre on Cranbourne Road at 9.50am on 16 June. CCTV captured the women leaving the centre and getting into a silver Honda sedan being driven by an accomplice. The offenders drove around the car park until they located the victim’s light blue 2012 Volkswagen sedan, registration ZDD 273. The female offenders used a key from the stolen handbag to steal…
A MAN has been arrested and charged with manslaughter following the death of a 51-year-old Frankston man in 2017. A 19-year-old Eildon man was arrested and charged by homicide squad detectives on 21 June. Police had been investigating an alleged physical altercation outside a licensed premises on Goulbourn Valley Highway, just before midnight on 20 October 2017. A 51-year-old man died after that alleged incident. The 19-year-old Eildon man appeared at Shepparton Magistrates’ Court on 21 June. First published in the Frankston Times – 24 June 2019
POLICE have arrested three people after an alleged crime spree through Frankston on 17 June. Attempted carjacking, robbery, affray, and assault are among the charges laid. At around 8pm 17 June, a victim was allegedly knocked unconscious outside the Frankston Bowls Club. Later in the evening a victim in a Toyota Camry on Gould Street was targeted. A 48-year-old and her 10 year-old son were in the car. The alleged offender leant into the car and demanded the keys from the mother. The alleged carjacking attempt was unsuccessful after the victim chased the offender away. The alleged offender met up…