AN in-principle agreement has been reached to lease out land on the bottom floor of the troubled Frankston Yacht Club building for use as a restaurant. Frankston Council and J.B. Pakenham Pty Ltd have reached an agreement to lease space on the ground level as well as a portion of the external deck. Frankston mayor Michael O’Reilly said “council has published its notice of intention to lease land, to enter into a lease with J.B. Pakenham Pty Ltd in the ground level café space of the Frankston Yacht Club building, including a portion of the external deck, located on the…
Author: Brodie Cowburn
FRANKSTON Council has declared its intentions to refund $111 worth of parking fines after a review into their parking fine appeals process. Kingston Council announced in March that they believed their process for reviewing parking fines had been improper, because they had outsourced their appeals process to an external agency between 2006 and 2016. They declared their concern that they may have been in violation of the Infringements Act 2006, and confirmed they would issue around $2.3 million in refunds. Frankston Council confirmed earlier this year that they had also worked alongside an external agency, Tenix, to manage their parking…
ISAACS MP celebrated with supporters at Mordialloc Bowls Club on Saturday night, as he retained his seat with an increased majority. Mr Dreyfus was returned as the member of Isaacs with a swing of over 5 per cent towards him. He leads Jeremy Hearn on a two party preferred basis by 16.6 per cent with 75.3 per cent of the vote counted. Mr Hearn was the candidate for the Liberal Party, but was disendorsed by the party before election day. The decision was made after anti-Islam comments made by Mr Hearn online were uncovered (“Liberals cut ties with Isaacs candidate”,…
INTERLEAGUE THE MPNFL interleague side scored a win on Saturday, mounting a good comeback against the side from the Ovens and Murray Football League. Ovens and Murray looked the better side early on, and were up by three goals at half time. The MPNFL side came out with more fire and intensity in the second half, and wrestled back the lead with a seven goals to two third term. MPNFL’s run of momentum continued into the final quarter, and they ended up running away with the victory 10.11 (71) to 16.16 (112). Shane McDonald booted six goals for the representative…
DIVISION TWO TWO games were played in the MPNFL this weekend as most of the league took time off to accommodate the interleague match. The marquee match of the weekend was at Pearcedale Recreation Reserve, as Pearcedale played host to Chelsea. Pearcedale were boosted by addition of former Essendon captain Brendon Goddard, who had signed to play in one match. Goddard was coming into the match on the back of a hand injury sustained in another league. Pearcedale have struggled in 2019 and only registered a solitary win. Unfortunately for them, even with the added boost of a former AFL…