CRICKET WOMENS BALNARRING and Rye will face off in the MPCA Womens Grand Final this weekend. Balnarring hosted Tooradin in the semi-final on Sunday. Balnarring batted first and put a huge total on the scoreboard. An unbeaten century from Jemma Reynolds helped Balnarring reach a final total of 3/207. Tooradin batted well but couldn’t maintain the run rate needed to win. They finished up at 5/132 after their 30 overs. Rye and Somerville went down to the wire on Sunday in the other semi-final. Rye batted first last weekend. They set Somerville a target of 106 to score to win.…
Author: Brodie Cowburn
EIGHT candidates have put their hands up to run in the upcoming Dunkley by-election. Women’s Spirit Project founder Jodie Belyea will contest the seat for Labor. Frankston mayor Nathan Conroy will seek to win it for the Liberals. Alex Breskin is the Greens’ candidate. The Greens returned a strong first preference vote of more than 10 percent at the 2022 federal election, and their preferences may prove influential this time. Chrysten Abraham is running for the Libertarian Party, Heath McKenzie for the Australian Democrats, Bronwyn Currie for the Animal Justice Party, and Reem Yunis for the Victorian Socialists. After failed…
PILES of rubbish were left festering next to bins at Chelsea Beach last weekend. A hot weekend saw people flock to the beach to enjoy the summer sun. However, on Monday morning residents reported that rubbish left at bins near the beach had not been picked up and had begun to blow away. One Chelsea resident told The News that “I was on the beach around 10am [Monday] morning and the bins hadn’t been emptied. Seagulls were having a feast, making a mess, and the wind had picked up too blowing much of the rubbish towards the bay for our…
A BOOK on the history of local racecourses has been published. John Macnaughtan has been working on the book for the last few years. It details the long histories of the racecourses at Mentone, Aspendale, Epsom, and Richfield. Macnaughtan, who also co-authored a book on the Epsom racecourse in 2003, said his latest work was inspired by a lifelong passion for racing. “I’ve always had an interest in racing. It started as a youngster, as a kid, and then followed on from that. I even trained a horse for a year, but I didn’t train a winner,” he said. Macnaughtan…
A $1 MILLION reward is on offer to anyone who can help convict the person responsible for Mordialloc woman Penny Galanopoulos’ death. On 10 January, 2012, Galanopoulos’ body was pulled from her home on Main Street in Mordialloc after a fire. Investigators later found that she had been killed before the fire was lit. A handwritten letter was delivered to Mordialloc Police Station in 2012 with information relating to the murder. Police believe the letter is authentic, but have not identified its author. Despite interviewing multiple people in the last 12 years, no charges have ever been laid. On Monday,…