FOR most sportspeople in the region, April signals the end of summer sports like cricket and tennis and the beginning of football, netball and other winter sports, but for one local cricket season has become a year-round proposition.
At 10:00 hours on Saturday 14th April a convoy of old model and heritage tractors began leaving Heywood for a two day, one hundred kilometre trek through some of the region’s most scenic parts.
THE Portland Motocross Club has one of its biggest events yet taking place across the weekend with the Senior Victorian State Titles hitting the track at Heywood.
TODAY 13-year-old Ajay Sonti will deliver a five-minute speech at the Melbourne Legacy’s 92nd Annual Anzac Commemoration for Students, taking place at the Shrine of Remembrance.
THE South West District Football League began its 2024 season across the weekend with fixtures played out on Saturday and Sunday and some big wins recorded throughout the competition.
HEATHMERE got its new South West District Netball League A grade campaign off to a flying start on Saturday, defeating Westerns by just two goals in a hard-hitting match up.
THE petition calling for the Portland District Health helipad to be reopened is attracting considerable interest within the community, however the Member for South-West Coast Roma Britnell is urging more Portlanders to get behind the push.