ALL seven councillors who stood for re-election have been voted back in to represent the community at Kingston Council. The seven are joined by newcomers Georgina Oxley (South ward) and George Hua (North ward) who were elected to council for the first time and effectively succeed John Ronke and Paul Peulich in the respective wards after Mr Ronke and Mr Peulich decided not to stand for re-election. The Victorian Electoral Commission declared results on Sunday evening (30 October) that confirmed Crs Tamara Barth, Tamsin Bearsley, Ron Brownlees, David Eden, Geoff Gledhill, Steve Staikos and Rosemary West were re-elected. Kingston’s nine councillors…
Author: Neil Walker
FOUR Frankston councillors have been turfed by voters after council elections held on 22 October. The Victorian Electoral Commission declared results on Sunday evening (30 October) that confirmed Crs Glenn Aitken, Brian Cunial, Colin Hampton, Sandra Mayer and Michael O’Reilly were re-elected. Four former councillors — Rebekah Spelman, former mayor James Dooley, Suzette Tayler and ex-mayor Darrel Taylor — were not re-elected. All nine of Frankston’s councillors serving from 2012-16, representing three regional wards, stood for re-election. The new councillors elected for a four-year council term alongside the five re-elected councillors are Kris Bolam, Quinn McCormack, Lillian O’Connor and Steve…
PLANS to build a new public jetty at the Patterson Lakes Harbour Plaza have fallen through amid a stoush between Kingston Council and the state government over who would pay for ongoing maintenance of the jetty. The Labor state government offered a $120,000 grant late last year to build the jetty and replace the existing dilapidated docking area for boats but the money is no longer on the table after a deadline lapsed for council to sign the agreement. Carrum MP Sonya Kilkenny said council did not sign the agreement and council CEO John Nevins wrote to the state government…
A NAZI swastika sign has been etched on the sign of a politician whose family escaped the horrors of the Holocaust in Germany during World War II. The vile symbol was scrawled on a billboard of federal Isaacs Labor MP Mark Dreyfus at the Mordialloc Football Club oval late last week. The father of Mr Dreyfus, award-winning composer and musician George Dreyfus, left Nazi Germany when he was 11 in 1938 amid rising fascism and state-sanctioned attacks on Jewish people under Adolf Hitler’s dictatorial regime. When contacted about the vandalised sign at Ben Kavanagh Reserve, photos of which The News…
WORK is being done along the Frankston line to prepare for the removal of eight level crossings between Cheltenham and Frankston. Geotechnical investigations will be conducted until the end of the year so work crews will remain a familiar sight even before the larger scale separation of road from rail at Balcombe Rd (Mentone), Charman Rd (Cheltenham), Edithvale Rd (Edithvale), Eel Race Rd (Carrum), Seaford Rd (Seaford), Skye/Overton Rd (Frankston), Station St (Bonbeach), Station St (Carrum) starting next year. The Level Crossing Removal Authority (LXRA) says more than 130 boreholes, about 100 millimetres in diameter, are being drilled to a…