AFTER losing nearly two full years of football due to the coronavirus pandemic, Portland key defender Jake Wilson is ready for a huge 2022 campaign within the Hampden Football League. Wilson recently signed a new 12-month contract with the Tigers and has been one of many hard at work since preseason began on November 22. […]
PORTLAND youngster Violet Burgess has raised more than $4500 for the Breast Cancer Foundation after shaving her head earlier this month. A just nine-years-old, the primary school student undertook the brave task of raising funds for the important charity after losing two close family friends to the disease. Aiming to raise $2000, Violet said she […]
RETAIL trade across Portland has reached impressive heights this holiday season, after almost two years of restrictions putting pressure on the industry. Tourists have flocked to the seaside community to celebrate the New Year, with some retailers reporting record customers in recent weeks. Bi Rite’s Liz Lindsey said there were more tourists in Portland than […]
FORMER Portlander Liam O’Brien is ready to surf the world stage, after earlier this month qualifying for the 2022 World Surf League Championship Tour. Qualifying during the Haleiwa Challenger event in Hawaii, the 22-year-old will now face off against 35 of the world’s top surfers in an 11-stop tour. He was in Portland to visit […]
RACING makes a long-awaited return to the Southern 500 Speedway this weekend with the Heathmere track roaring back into action with its first meet since February 2020. The Southern 500 Speedway has been one of the hardest hit local sports clubs by the coronavirus pandemic, with the second half of the 2019-20 schedule, all of […]
HEYWOOD residents will be waiting until the new year to enjoy the town’s pool, after a “mass shortage” of lifeguards has left the facility in limbo. In a post on the pool’s Facebook page last week, Belgravia Leisure said there had only been three participants willing to undertake training required to be a lifeguard at […]
ASK Sudhir Chhetri how architecture helps his art, and you get a response born of experience. “In architecture you see the details and that might have an influence on me seeing the depths in the objects that I paint,” he said. And that influence is starting to become better known around Portland as Mr Chhetri […]
ANOTHER Portland Basketball Association junior domestic season is in the books with seven new premiers crowned on a warm Friday afternoon. In the under-16 boys grand final Clippers got the job done over 76ers, 40-31 in a heated final encounter. The first half was all defence with plenty of nervous offence, with Clippers taking a […]
THE saga of the Dartmoor police station has moved another step closer to some sort of resolution. Glenelg Shire Council has applied to buy 398 square metres on Wapling Ave in order to put the heritage-listed former police lockup on the site. The piece of land was home to the former Dartmoor police residence which […]
THE Probus Club of Portland celebrated its 30th anniversary on Tuesday, December 14 marking the occasion with a lunch at the RSL Memorial Bowling Club. Probus clubs are clubs for active retirees, and serves as a way for them to meet each other and remain involved in the community. Over 100 people were in attendance […]