THE South West Victoria Football Association is set for expansion with the introduction of a division two competition from this season. The league has been able to navigate the perils of COVID lockdowns during the past two seasons with the unexpected benefit being Portland’s transfer from the South Australian based Limestone Coast Football Association because […]
IT’S official. Tyrendarra will enter a women’s team into the 2022 Western Victoria Female Football League. The delighted Darras have been busy in the off-season months preparing to join the competition, starting with come and try sessions back in October before moving onto regular training sessions in recent weeks. “We actually applied to join the […]
GLENELG Shire’s largest event is all set to go at Heywood on Saturday, with Wood, Wine and Roses organisers as confident as they can be they have put a turbulent two years behind them for the return of the tourist drawcard. They are hopeful that the event can again draw somewhere near the 12,000 visitors […]
THE march to protest issues at Portland District Health will take place at 1pm today, as those issues hit the floor of the Victorian Parliament on Tuesday night. State Member for South-West Coast Roma Britnell – who is scheduled to be at the march – demanded the government release the ‘Towards a sustainable medical healthcare […]
AN exciting double feature weekend of racing is in the books for the South Coast Drag Racing Association. On Friday evening a strong crowd was gifted three hours of burnout competition as a part of Tyre Frying Friday. The winner when all was said and done was Portlander Braden Phillips, snatching his first Friday night […]
THE old Narrawong store’s fate has attracted a great deal of attention since it closed five years ago, and it took its first steps to a new future on Friday. Warrnambool-based electrician Darren Hunter, a former Narrawong resident, was the successful bidder at an auction on site, going to $380,000 to secure the property. About […]
THERE might be a few changes at Wood, Wine and Roses next Saturday, but there’s not going to much reduction in horsepower. One of the new events will be a street rod and custom car show, to be held in the north bank area of the Fitzroy River (south of the Heywood Recreation Reserve). It […]
VOLUNTEERS are becoming harder and harder to come by for many local organisations, as seen in recent editions of the Observer, but for the Friends of the Great South West Walk getting and keeping them has been a huge part of its success story. And the Friends know how to honour those volunteers, doing so […]
FLYING Mascot, a racehorse with connections to Portland, has narrowly missed out on gaining a place in the All-Star Mile, the world’s richest 1600m race. The three-week public voting period – used to determine 10 of the 15 starters in the race – closed on Sunday, and when the top 10 was revealed on Wednesday […]
IT’S the largest event to be held in Portland since, well, the last time it was held, and the foreshore certainly looks the place to be tomorrow. Classics by the Bay show ‘n’ shine has navigated the coronavirus pandemic pretty much unscathed and will be back again possibly bigger and better than ever. It is […]