FRANKSTON High School student Daniel Benjamin is on a high after receiving a Premier’s Award for excellence in his VCE studies last year. Frankston High School student Maria Veresova received a Premier’s Award in Russian. Each year, students who demonstrate outstanding achievement in VCE are recognised. The award ceremony was held last week at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre. In front of his proud family and English teacher, Helen Page, and senior campus principal, Helen Wilson, Daniel received the Premier’s Award in English. He achieved a perfect study score of 50 in English and business management and was dux…
Author: Bayside News
A CAR stolen from the Peninsula Bus Lines staff car park in Bardia Av, Seaford, on Tuesday ended up crashing into a house in Carrum Downs. The 1989 White Toyota Camry was seen being driven “erratically” in Frankston North just after midnight on Wednesday, police say. Detective Leading Senior Constable Craig Goudy, of Frankston Crime Investigation Unit, said the offenders used the car to drive around Langwarrin, stealing from cars parked in various streets near Airlie Ct. They were disturbed at one address at 1.40am and, a short time later, involved in a police pursuit in Carrum Downs. Police chased…
SIX offenders are facing more than 60 charges of car theft and theft from cars in the Frankston, Carrum Downs, and Seaford areas over the past month. The three females and three males aged 16-26 are all known to each other. Some have been remanded and others released on bail. They will all appear at Frankston Magistrates’ Court on various dates. Detective Senior Constable Ryan Collins said nine cars were stolen by the group – and all had been unlocked with keys easily found. Stolen property included mobile phones and cash. He urged drivers to lock their cars and remove…
WORKS have begun on the “missing piece” of the Bay Trail after the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal endorsed Kingston Council’s plans for the project (‘Bay Trail gets VCAT go ahead’, The News 9/4/15). This will allow a 600 metre section at Mentone to complete the continuous bike path around Port Phillip Bay. The three-metre wide path next to Beach Road will run from Charman Rd to the Mentone Lifesaving Club. A reconfiguration of the Mundy St car park will allow the new path to link up with existing sections of the Bay Trail. Some vegetation along Beach Rd has…
By MELISSA WALTH MESSRS Brody and Mason will hold their usual monthly sale at Somerville on Wednesday next, for which they invite entries. *** Messrs Alex Scott and Co will hold their monthly sale at Tanti on Monday next, when they will offer for sale a good yarding of cattle, sheep and sundries. *** Mr S. S. Price, dentist of Melbourne, will visit Frankston for the convenience of patients on Sunday, June 13th, and may be seen at Garrood’s Prince of Wales Hotel. *** Mrs J. Reynolds, of Bay St Frankston has on view in the window a “towel tidy”…