LOCAL Masters League football clubs will play with an important cause at heart this weekend. The Pat Cronin Foundation Round is set to take place across the AFL Masters Vic Metro Football League. The round is named in memory of coward punch victim Pat Cronin, who was killed in April of 2016. Clubs taking part in the Pat Cronin Foundation Round this weekend include the Frankston, Peninsula Raiders, Mordialloc, and Carrum Cowboys Football Clubs. Carrum Cowboys player Peter Treseder helped link the league with the Pat Cronin Foundation; he said “the Cowboys have been supporting the Pat Cronin Foundation since…
Author: Brodie Cowburn
A FRANKSTON Council proposal to implement a 300 percent differential rate on untenanted commercial properties in Frankston’s CBD has been abandoned. The proposal to set the rate at 300 percent of the general rate was raised late last year and sent out for community consultation. In response to 230 submissions, Frankston councillors rejected the proposal at their public meeting last week (“Rate hike for vacant retail spaces proposed” The Times, 16/5/2026). Former mayor Kris Bolam spearheaded the proposal after council successfully implemented a 300 percent differential rate on empty lots in the Frankston CBD in its 2025/2026 budget. He ended…
ACCESSIBILITY initiatives running at Frankston Beach are set to continue into 2027. The beach accessibility pilot program began last December, when 70 metres of beach matting extending to the water’s edge was installed. The program also features complimentary beach wheelchairs and equipment, daybeds, cabanas, and trained staff and volunteers. At their most recent council meeting, Frankston councillors unanimously resolved to continue the program into the 2026/2027 financial year. The motion approved by councillors read that “the program is already fully funded for 2026/2027, with a surplus of roughly $120,000 in pledged and raised sponsorship funds.” Cr Nathan Butler is the…
RESIDENTS of Kingston Council’s Melaleuca Ward will go without a local councillor for four months. Melaleuca Ward councillor Tess Law resigned from council in late March. Law became embroiled in controversy earlier this year after a failed attempt to install herself on the CEO remuneration committee. After proposing the change to the committee in February, the matter was deferred to the March meeting “pending verification by officers of Cr Law’s qualifications and experience”. The motion put forward by Law in the February agenda read that the former councillor held “postgraduate qualifications in performance management, strategic staffing, workforce capability, workplace relations,…
FRANKSTON MP Paul Edbrooke has been promoted to the state government’s cabinet, picking up three newly created portfolios and assuming the role of minister for consumer affairs. Edbrooke will also act as the state’s first ever minister for men and boys. He has also been appointed minister for cost of living, and minister for renting. Carrum MP Sonya Kilkenny has had her significant role on the frontbench further expanded. She is now the minister for violence reduction and minister for finance, in addition to her existing roles as attorney-general and planning minister. Mordialloc MP Tim Richardson, who was previously parliamentary…