SOUTH Portland has gone one better in the 2023-24 Portland and District Cricket Association under-16 season, taking home premiership glory against Portland Tigers by 78 runs at Cavalier Park.

TIKI Pirates have taken out the division one Portland Touch Football Association premiership with a nail-biting victory over Cougars in a game which went down to the very last seconds on Thursday night, 7-6.

IT is an unofficial count, but apparently the new number of steps to the top of the Cape Nelson Lighthouse is 8,700.

THE Portland Motocross Club welcomed a huge contingent of drivers to Heywood for the first round of the Western Region series across the weekend.

LUCKILY a passerby spotted a grassfire in Bolwarra at 12.44am yesterday and reported it with a call to triple zero.

ROTARY Club of Portland are holding their third annual clean-up for Clean up Australia Day this Sunday, March 3.

HEYWOOD’s Wood Wine and Roses Festival was greeted by lovely summer weather and a huge crowd.

PORTLAND Memorial Bowling Club had a day to remember on Saturday’s weekend pennant grand final day, with the club winning all four divisions of the competition in a remarkable feat.

PORTLAND Panthers are gearing up for another South West Victorian Football Association season with premiership glory in their sights, and they’ll be aided in the pursuit of that goal by two new recruits who have arrived at the club from out of town.

PORTLAND’S own Kaden Wilson marked a huge milestone in his cricket journey on the weekend, making his first ever century in the Warrnambool and District Cricket Association’s division one competition for Port Fairy against Welsey Yambuk on the weekend.