MORE land has been purchased to help complete the chain of parks project. The state government has purchased 83 hectares of land in Heatherton and Clayton South. The land will be used to create linked parks between Karkarook Park and Braeside Park. The state government has come under fire for its plans to use the former Delta landfill site in Heatherton for suburban rail loop stabling. The land had been earmarked for the chain of parks project. An independent report into the suburban rail loop released this year read that a replacement site must be found before the construction of…
Author: Brodie Cowburn
SEVEN candidates will run for Carrum and eight will run for Mordialloc at next weekend’s state election. In Carrum, Labor’s Sonya Kilkenny is recontesting the seat. She has been the member for Carrum since 2014. Bec Buchanan is the candidate for the Liberals. The Greens will also contest Carrum – Jayde Lillico will run for the party. Taylor Macgregor Owen will run for the Animal Justice Party, Jeremy Cameron for the Family First Party, and Georgia Erevnidis for the Freedom Party. Damian Willis is running for Carrum as an independent and will appear as the first name on the ballot.…
HADI Saab is the new mayor of Kingston. The new mayor was elected to the position at a council meeting last week. Former deputy mayor Saab was the only councillor to nominate for the top job. Saab replaces Steve Staikos as mayor. Staikos has served as mayor for four terms since his election to council in 2008. He has been mayor for the last two years. Saab says the focus of his reign will be improving transparency and community consultation and advocating for improvements to the planned major projects in the municipality. “During my term, I plan on being an…
CRICKET GRADE A1 FRENCH Island batter Ben King made history last weekend by scoring one of the biggest totals ever seen in local cricket. King finished the day unbeaten on a whopping 321 runs. He smashed 50 boundaries, 21 of them sixes. He made his mammoth score from just 184 balls. French Island opener Keith Burdett would have been best on ground on any other day. He scored 136 runs. French Island finished the day at 3/602. PROVINCIAL TWO-day cricket has finally returned to the MPCA. Baden Powell were the best performers in the Provincial division on Saturday. They played…
THE soft plastic recycling scheme which has been running at major supermarkets has been put on hold. REDcycle, the company responsible for the soft plastic recycling program running at Coles and Woolworths, has recently suspended its collection. It says that it cannot currently offload the plastic it receives, and has pointed the finger at its “offtake partners”. REDCycle has two soft plastic offtake partners – Carrum Downs recycler Replas, and Close the Loop. In a statement on its website, REDCycle said that Replas has “experienced significant pandemic-related downturns in market demand as well as other challenges including the delayed commercialisation…