IT’S been a strange year for local businesses with changing Covid-19 restrictions creating a challenging time for retailers and the service sector, particularly for small businesses that often don’t have the support of a larger organisation to fall back on. Recognising the importance of small businesses in our local community and how well some have […]

WELCOME to the Tough Guy Book Club (TGBC), there are only a couple of rules you need to follow to join.

FORMER Hamilton premiership player and coach, Jim Read, passed away suddenly at the weekend, aged 76.

MACARTHUR Primary School welcomed a new face to its community to begin term four, with Jane Langley stepping into the role as acting principal after the departure of Ben Kelson.

THE Dunkeld community will now benefit from a 24-hour accessible automatic external defibrillator (AED) thanks to Ambulance Victoria.

CRICKET associations will have to get creative if they are to play representative games, after Melbourne Country Week (MCW) was cancelled for the 2020-21 season due to coronavirus concerns.

COLLEGE wasted no time getting wins, defeating Grampians to open the Hamilton and District Cricket Association Under-16 season on Tuesday.

THE Portland Little Athletics Centre’s season will begin on Thursday October 22. Despite the state government’s approval some weeks ago for non-contact outdoor junior sport to return, it was only last week that the final go-ahead was given to regional Victorian centres with Return to Play protocols having to be formulated and approved. For Portland, […]

KEEN gardeners know the secret, and all the region’s 2020 garden converts have a hot tip-off here, too: Seawinds Nursery have fantastic sales every spring. Even better, the sales provide a great fundraiser for the not-for-profit business which provides supported employment for people with a disability in association with Kyeema Support Services. Seawinds’ plant sale […]

IT’S only fitting that the painters Phil Darby most admires are the Old Masters, such as Leonardo da Vinci. Because in his own way, the Portland artist is something of a Renaissance man when it comes to his own work. Not for him a focus on one type of art. He paints, for sure, but […]