DOGS who perform not so great escapes as far as owners are concerned may avoid going to the pound in future if suggested changes to the way Kingston Council deals with lost pets go ahead. Councillors at last month’s public council meeting voted for council officers to investigate minimising the chances of lost pooches facing a stay at a pound if a dog is registered and microchipped with council. Cr Georgina Oxley suggested officers consider a “first strike” policy to have dogs returned straight back to owners. “I think nobody wants their dogs to go wandering the streets day or…
Author: Neil Walker
THE Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) has approved boundary changes across three south-east region electorates — Isaacs, Dunkley and Flinders — as part of a wider redistribution of electorate boundaries to create a new electorate called Foster northwest of Melbourne. Population demographics changes made the AEC look at electorate changes across Victoria to better represent voters. In Isaacs, federal Labor MP Mark Dreyfus said he is “sorry that from the next election I will no longer represent residents of Carrum Downs, Sandhurst, Skye, Noble Park and the parts of Keysborough north of Cheltenham Road”. “I can assure these residents that I…
A MULTI-MILLION dollar push for state and federal money for sports hubs is top of Frankston Council’s wish list ahead of looming state and federal elections. Councillors voted behind closed doors after the ordinary public meeting on 4 June, for commercial-in-confidence reasons, to lobby state and federal politicians for $30 million towards two expanded sports hubs. Council has pledged $7.1 million of ratepayers’ money to a development of Jubilee Park Stadium and $8.05 million towards an upgraded Centenary Park sports hub. But the money is conditional on both federal and state governments matching the council pledges. The proposed expansion of…
THE Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) has approved boundary changes across three south-east region electorates — Dunkley, Flinders and Isaacs — as part of a wider redistribution of electorate boundaries to create a new electorate called Foster northwest of Melbourne. Population demographics changes made the AEC look at electorate changes across Victoria to better represent voters. Liberal Dunkley MP Chris Crewther faces an uphill battle to save his seat at the next federal election after the changes to the electorate boundary, losing Mornington and the northern part of Baxter to the seat of Flinders held by fellow Liberal MP Greg Hunt.…
HEARING tales of years and decades gone by has inspired Chelsea resident Kaye Musgrove to write a memoir of her father that also provides an insight into life in the area throughout the past nine decades. Always a Gentleman is a book that tells the story of husband, father, grandfather and now great-grandfather Reginald Musgrove and also reflects on the many changes in the area throughout his life. Mr Musgrove started a career as a family butcher in Chelsea and later bought a Carrum shop. He retired in 1988 and was well known locally, Ms Musgrove said. “He was the…