MISSING Person Squad detectives have charged a 49-year-old man regarding the disappearance of Karen Rae. Ms Rae, 48, was last seen leaving her Adib Court home in Frankston North at about 7pm on 15 April, 2015. Last Friday (9 December), a search of the roadside along the Frankston Freeway was commenced by SES under the direction of police. Human remains, that were yet to be identified at time of publication, were located in bushland beside the freeway in Frankston North on Saturday 10 December. The Langwarrin man has been charged with one count of murder and has been remanded to…
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PENINSULA Health has received an award for its Preventing Tobacco Use campaign as part of the Mornington Peninsula Junior Football League Goes Smoke Free project. The award was announced at the 2016 VicHealth Awards ceremony at Federation Square last week by Health Minister Jill Hennessey. Also attending were Shadow Health Spokeswoman Mary Wooldridge, Victorian Greens leader Greg Barber, VicHealth chair Fiona McCormack and VicHealth CEO Jerril Rechter. The Preventing Tobacco Use project is a partnership with the Mornington Peninsula Junior Football League, Good Sports, Quit Victoria, and Mornington Peninsula Shire Council, with the league the first sporting league in the…
NARANGA School in Frankston has been recognised with a Victorian sustainability award for its innovative approach to rubbish. The school, which caters for students aged 5-18 with a mild intellectual disability, won the secondary section of the ResourceSmart Schools Award for waste. The school’s senior hands-on program engages students by combining good sustainability practices with literacy and numeracy skills to carry through to adulthood. As part of designing a new kitchen garden area the students cleared, pruned and relocated plants for the revamp, measured and costed garden materials, worked out an order through Mitre 10 and assisted to collect supplies…
SOME ratepayers have scored a rare win and will get money refunded by Frankston Council after an audit found Acacia Hill and Spring Hill Estate residents were overcharged for rates. Residents had asked council to look at the actual costs to maintain a lake at the housing estates. At the 28 November public council meeting the mayor Cr Brian Cunial said council found there had been “a slight overpayment by residents in that estate” so 220 residents will receive a retrospective partial refund. “Also in future, the cost of maintaining the lake will be better reflected in the differential rate…
POLICE arrested a man after he poured petrol in the foyer of Frankston police station, 10.15am, Thursday (8 December), and threatened to set himself on fire. Media officer Thomas O’Byrne said the man would be taken to hospital for assessment.