A YOUNG Portland family are facing a major challenge after their two-year-old was sent for cancer treatment in Melbourne, forcing them to leave their one-year-old twins at home. Shauni Morrissey and Tom Pender were told their daughter Annie had the blood cancer acute lymphoblastic leukaemia last Thursday, just four days after the cancer possibility was […]
THE spectre of the coronavirus has returned to Portland after fragments were found in the city’s wastewater. Local authorities were advised of the finding yesterday morning and have moved to ramp up testing of both symptomatic and asymptomatic residents. Meanwhile the border to South Australia has been shut on the Victorian side for the first […]
THE Portland Football Netball Club has secured all of their football coaches for the 2021 season with a focus on collaboration. The club has appointed its 10 coaches across three different leagues – the Hampden Football Netball League (seniors and juniors) the Greater South West Junior Football League and the Western Victoria Female Football League. […]
THE forestry industry is braced for a long, drawn-out battle to get logs back in to China as Glenelg Shire braces to limit the collateral damage. Following China’s ban on logs last Wednesday, the industry has been trying to get clarification as to what is going on. Industry representatives had a teleconference with federal Assistant […]
MOVEMBER participants can exploit the element of surprise this year, hiding their new moustache grows under masks when out in public. It’s something four Port of Portland Movember sign-ups may well be taking advantage of when their moustaches become more thick and lush in the next couple of weeks – or if the “mos” aren’t […]
AFTER a decade spent playing with Greater Western Sydney, Jeremy Cameron is on the move for the 2021 AFL season, securing a trade to Geelong on Thursday. The playing future of 27-year-old Cameron was one of the most hotly debated topics of this year’s trade period and negotiations between the two clubs were not resolved […]
PORTLAND’S own Jake Edwards will make his return to Hanlon Park next year after committing to Portland for the 2021 Hampden Football League season. The 23-year-old spent two years with Portland’s under-18.5 team before becoming a prominent member of the club’s senior side for the 2014 and 2015 Hampden seasons, playing 32 games and kicking […]
ANITA Rank has created another piece of history by being elected Glenelg Shire Mayor for the fifth straight year on Wednesday night. Cr Rank, for the third year in a row, saw off the challenge of Casterton-based Karen Stephens in a 4-3 vote. But with a new council, the votes fell a different way. Cr […]
PORTLAND has been caught in the crossfire of international power plays, with some of our region’s major exports unable to be sold to our major customer. On Wednesday logs joined crayfish on the list of goods China has banned or is holding up from Australia – and with barley also on the list, the news […]
On Tuesday evening, the PDCA began its under-16 season in pleasant playing conditions with the opening day of round one. Portland Tigers headed up to Flinders Park to face South Portland and ended the evening in a positive position, batting first and setting a total of 94 runs after 40 overs. Artie Harvey was the […]