PROVINCIAL RED Hill put up a good fight on Saturday, but still fell short against Pines. Pines came into the two-day match undefeated, and put a whopping 347 runs on the board on day one. Red Hill had a good crack at their target on day two, but it proved too tall a task. Simon Dart was fantastic for Red Hill; he hit 121 runs from 136 deliveries to give his side a chance. Henry Riddle and Rhys Hewitt also scored half-centuries. Time ended up being the enemy for Red Hill. They finished their 80 overs at 8/296. Ricky Ramsdale’s…
Author: Brodie Cowburn
HUNDREDS of students at the Chisholm TAFE campus in Frankston have received parking fines from Frankston Council while attending their classes. The Chisholm Student Union was formed earlier this year to call for changes to parking arrangements outside the Building C facility. CSU founder Quinney Brownfield estimates that “between February 2024 and May 2025, 1,177 fines totalling to $140,063 were issued for ‘Stopped without a permit’ in the singular parking lot outside of Chisholm Frankston’s Building C, almost the same amount as what the entire City of Greater Geelong issued in 2023 for the same offence.” “At Chisholm Frankston’s Building…
HAWTHORN Football Club’s new homebase in Dingley Village has been officially opened. The $113 million project has received money from all three levels of government, the AFL, and Hawthorn Football Club. The federal government has confirmed it spent $15 million on stage one works, which triggered the release of $5 million in ratepayer money from Kingston Council towards the project. The state government also put in $15 million. The finished Kennedy Community Centre project features a new community oval and pavilion, which is expected to be used for Hawthorn FC’s AFLW team. Kingston Council and Hawthorn FC have agreed to…
FRANKSTON mayor Kris Bolam has declared his ratepayer-funded overseas trip “highly successful”, and says it will deliver a big financial boost to Frankston. Cr Bolam was overseas from 23 September to 11 October. The mayor visited Shanghai and Wuxi in China; Lincoln, Wichita, and Washington DC in the USA; Suva in Fiji; and Susono and Tokyo in Japan during the trip. The final cost of the trip to ratepayers was a little over $8000, falling short of the initially budgeted $11,500. Cr Bolam said he personally paid for his airfares and incidental expenses to minimise costs. A final report on…
THE federal government has greenlit a project to protect Frankston’s coastline from the risk of natural disaster. The Frankston City Coastal Resilience 2100 project will cost $288,305 – the federal government has confirmed it will contribute $143,380 of that total through its Disaster Ready Fund grant stream. The money is expected to be used to develop a “Coastal Hazard Adaptation and Resilience Plan”. The Frankston project will also include a landslide risk assessment, establishment of a survey grade drone-enabled monitoring program, and work on local coastal hazard modelling and risk assessments. The funding announcement comes weeks after two people died…