PORTLAND Basketball Association’s spring domestic season came to an exciting close on Sunday, when nine teams were crowned premiers after intense play across the full day of grand finals. It was a big day for Portland’s Tigersharks teams, winning seven of the nine grand final games, including the division one men’s grand final. That match […]

THE opening round of Portland’s T20 games kicked off in drizzly conditions last Thursday evening, but the rain couldn’t put a stop to the scorching performances in the three matches. Portland Tigers claimed the biggest victory of the round, defeating South Portland by 120 runs after they set a mammoth total of 4/213 in the […]

PORTLAND Tigers’ Sri Lankan recruit Shanaka Silva has already proven to be someone who rip the game away from the opposition, whether with bat or ball in hand, and the 34-year-old all-rounder is only just getting started. Having moved to Portland this year as part of his wife’s employment as a chef, Silva joined up […]

AFTER more than a decade of involvement at Portland Kyokushin Karate Club, instructor Deb Millard became the dojo’s third student to obtain their Black Belt after undertaking an intense six-hour grading in Geelong last Saturday. Having started her karate journey in Portland in 2013, Millard took over the reins at the dojo last year after […]

THERE has been a slight improvement in waiting times for ambulances responding to Code One incidents in Glenelg Shire. According to an Ambulance Victoria’s Performance document, the average wait time for a Code One incident in the first quarter of the current financial year (July 1 to September 30) is 14 minutes and 20 seconds, […]

IF anyone’s life is book worthy, it has to be Portland’s Joy Davis. Not only was she a businesswoman, council reporter, proofreader, columnist, councillor, mayor, trustee and member of countless organisations, she raised 15 children. “I think we were the second-largest family in Portland,” the 95-year-old matriarch she says. “And we weren’t even Catholic.” Her […]

A FRACTURED spine is something many may struggle to return to racing from, but for Luke Storer a spine injury only spurred him to go even faster as he joins his brother Daniel driving sprintcars this season. Having sustained fractures to three vertebrae in a crash in February this year, Luke’s speedway season ended abruptly […]

JULIE Amor has been Kyeema’s CEO for ten years and has declared it’s time to step back and focus on her to-do list. After 18 years working at Kyeema Support Services, Mrs Amor has chosen to retire and dedicate more time to family, hobbies and travel. Mrs Amor attended All Saints School and Loreto Convent, […]

THE news that the Portland Observer will be closing down has been met with a mixture of shock and sadness by the community. Staff at the Observer, which has faithfully served the community for 182 years, were informed late last week that December 20 would be the last day of operations unless a buyer could […]

NEWLY Re-elected mayor Karen Stephens is “looking forward to getting down and working with the team” as she enters her second consecutive year as mayor of the Glenelg Shire. All councillors were present at Wednesday’s statutory council meeting and were all in favour of electing Cr Stephens into the role. Cr Michael Carr made the […]