THE Portland Adult Riding Club hosted its second annual Dressage Day on Sunday, pulling over 50 riders from all over Victoria and parts of South Australia for a serious day of dressage. Dressage, for those unfamiliar, is an Olympic discipline of exhibition riding, sometimes described as ‘ballet on horseback’, where horse and rider are expected […]
A TWO week-long aerial shooting campaign has seen more than 1100 feral animals – mainly fallow deer – destroyed. The campaign was completed in the World Heritage-listed Budj Bim Cultural Landscape, including the Indigenous Protected Areas in Tyrendarra and parts of the Budj Bim National Park. Deer and pigs were targeted from helicopters after they […]
THE Portland Squash and Racquetball Club is hosting an event celebrating 50 years of community sport in August of this year and organisers are encouraging all past and present players to get involved. The PSRC was founded in August of 1971 when the Portland Town Council constructed three squash courts on Fitzgerald Street in conjunction […]
IF you want to know how successful Saturday’s CSR Wood Panels (Softwoods) reunion was, a vote taken right at the end had the answer. More than 50 ex-employees gathered at Hanlon Park to mark 30 years since the Darts Rd factory closed its doors. There were plenty of stories swapped and old colleagues caught up […]
SHE reads a Danielle Steele book a week, does word searches, is keeping on-the-ball with her footy tipping and reached 100 on April 25. Ada Harris may well be Portland’s most switched-on centenarian. Mrs Harris celebrated her birthday with more than 100 family members and friends at the Portland RSL Memorial Bowling Club, delighted to […]
THE swathes of native bushland that were once a familiar sight locally might be mostly gone now, but a band of volunteers is doing their best to restore as much as they can – and that effort just got a bit easier thanks to a donation by a Bolwarra businessman. Steve Jordan, who runs South […]
THE familiar – and comforting to those stuck at sea – yellow colour of Coast Guard Portland’s vessel Helen Handbury is about to become but a memory. It will go up on to the Portland slipway in the next couple of weeks to undergo a major refurbishment, that demonstrates the wider local benefits of using […]
THE Portland Panthers Soccer Club will take a daring first step into the wilds of Victorian soccer this weekend, when they host Hamilton Raiders and Corangamite Lions in their first game in the South West Victoria Football Association. While the junior grades played games last season in the competition, the seniors did not, and the […]
