OVER the past financial year, Portland District Health (PDH) has benefitted from over 6500 hours of volunteer work, delivering meals, transporting patients and generally keeping the hospital ticking over.

AFTER multiple Western Victoria Female Football League best and fairests (including one with Portland in 2022), a broken leg and thousands of kilometres of travel, Penshurst’s Jess Rentsch is set for the big time after the midfielder was drafted by the West Coast Eagles with pick two in Monday night’s AFLW Draft.

IT’S been 28 fantastic years but Daryl Petch is finally throwing in the towel. From January 30, 2024, there will be a new bus driver at the wheel of Portland’s arguably most recognisable mode of school transportation: the Banana Bus.

UP and coming local footballer Chad Finck is ready to take his game to the next level, as the 16-year-old has recently been selected to Greater Western Victoria Rebels’ under-18 squad for the 2024 season.  

THE Heywood and District Secondary College (HDSC) was shocked and delighted to discover they had won the title of best edible garden in the Victoria.

SATURDAY’S Portland Swimming Club meet, the first hosted in town since 2019, was a homecoming of sorts for one former resident, but one which meant even more than that.

PORTLAND Colts managed to defeat Portland Tigers in a game which was dominated by each team’s bowling attack.

A LAST-SECOND three-pointer from Nathan Hardingham capped off Portland’s men’s basketballers ideal finish to 2023, as they claimed victory in a nail-biter against Horsham at Horsham Basketball Stadium 56-55 on Sunday afternoon.

LONG time Portland locals Leigh and Barb Allen have said goodbye to their freight business after almost 40 years of serving the local community and beyond.

AFTER many years teaching at All Saints Parish School, Georgia Murrell is retiring.