FRANKSTON Police are investigating an alleged incident between a taxi driver and his passenger overnight on 20 January. The alleged incident occurred at 12.15am, after a row between the victim and the offender. Police said the passenger in the taxi, being driven in the Frankston area, had fled without paying the driver earlier in the evening. The driver later spotted the man and asked him for payment, which police said resulted in the offender becoming verbally abusive. Police alleged that the driver had stepped out of the taxi, and was punched in the mouth by the man. He required several…
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DUNKLEY MP Chris Crewther has said he would be “happy to support” a trial of a cashless welfare card system in Frankston. The system being trialled interstate sees 80 per cent of money from Centrelink payments received by welfare recipients placed onto a card, where it cannot be withdrawn. The money on the card also cannot be used to buy alcohol or on gambling products. The card has been trialled in four regions across Queensland, South Australia, and Western Australia. Mr Crewther said “the program helps kids get their school books and makes sure money is not used on drugs…
THE Mordialloc Food and Wine Festival will return on the first weekend of March, with Vaudeville Smash announced as the headline act. The band has been performing together for close to a decade, and has travelled the world to play at places like Texas, New York, Tokyo, Singapore, and Toronto. Kingston mayor Georgina Oxley said “Mordi Fest will feature an eclectic and unmissable lineup of artists, headlined by dance-floor favourites Vaudeville Smash on Saturday and blues musician Ash Grunwald on Sunday.” “Vaudeville Smash bring a unique explosion of funk, flute, sax, synth and groove. Back home they have played some…
KINGSTON Council has splashed $2.6 million on two properties in Clarinda for potential use as parkland, sporting field or a market garden. Mayor Georgina Oxley said the two properties, inside the Green Wedge, were neighbouring to a former waste site which will be transformed into a park as part of council’s Chain of Parks project. “When the two properties came on the market council jumped at the opportunity as they are in a key location neighbouring the future Victory Road Park,” Cr Oxley said. “The site next door will soon be transformed from a waste site into a fantastic new…
THOUSANDS of spectators flocked to the Emu Plains Reserve, Balnarring on Saturday 26 January for the Balnarring Picnic Racing Club’s traditional Australia Day meeting. A field of seven took to the track for the highlight of the club’s season, the Balnarring Cup, where Cranbourne-based trainer Cindy Alderson took out the main event with her low-flying mare My Clementina. Ridden by Maddison Morris, My Clementina scooped the prize to become the new ‘star of the picnics’, winning five straight picnic races – a maiden, Trophy 1, Trophy 2 and two Open Cups, which included the Healesville Cup at her previous start.…