THE Frankston Blues basketball club has signed on SEABL point guard Andrew Harms for a further three years as head coach of the Blues senior men’s program. Harms, who has had a junior and senior career at the Blues as well as a SEABL career leading the Dandenong Rangers to multiple conference championships, will continue his role he took on mid-season this year. Harms will head into the 2018 season with greater awareness having spent some of last season working with the playing group. “The interim role was a valuable one for me in many respects,” he said. “It provided…
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POLICE are working on the theory that a postbox firebug lives in the Heatherhill Rd area of Frankston. Detective Senior Constable Bernard Dowling said the man, in his 60s, with long blond hair and wearing a fur or wool-lined cloak, had dropped burning material – such as firelighters – into at least seven post boxes in the past month. The most recent incidents occurred twice on the one night at the post box on the corner of Lindrum Rd and Hampden Av, Friday 1 September. No letters were burnt because the mail had already been collected. Other incidents have been…
A MAN threatened a Carrum Downs woman with a knife before forcing her out of her car in the driveway of her Lats Av property and stealing it, 4.30pm, Saturday 16 September. The woman, 48, told police that she had just sat down when the man knocked on her side window and produced the 15cm knife. She opened the door and the man pulled her out and they had a brief struggle after which the man drove off in her grey 2012 Hyundai Ascent. Only two and a half hours later the man was chased by police at Bairnsdale after…
A WORKSHOP on the relationship between birds and plants will be held next month at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Cranbourne. The workshop is being held at the end of this year’s National Bird Week (23-29 October) with presenters focussing on greater understanding of Australian birds, their behaviour, their requirements and their conservation. From 7.30am on Sunday 29 October there will be an optional opportunity to participate in the “What Bird is That?” presentation conducted by BirdLife Australia’s Mornington Peninsula branch in the Cranbourne bushland, followed by breakfast. The presentation follows warnings last month from the branch’s president, Max Burrows, that…
A BUSINESS case for the long-mooted electrification of the Frankston line to Baxter will go ahead after the federal and state governments got onboard a unity ticket to look at the plan. Federal Dunkley Liberal MP Chris Crewther announced last Friday (22 September) that the Labor state government and federal Coalition government had agreed to pursue the business case Mr Crewther announced on the eve of last year’s federal election. “We’re now able to proceed as the state government have finally decided to play ball by submitting an initial and now revised project scope, after ignoring the federal funding on…