THE Portland Motocross Club honoured 10 years since the passing of member Dwayne Alexander at the annual Dwayne’s Day in the Dirt event with a huge turnout making for a big day of racing. The annual event was created to honour the impact and involvement he had on the club with many members taking the […]

STUDENTS across Portland and the district are warming up their voices and tuning their instruments for this year’s Performing Arts Festival.

THE construction period of the new Portland Bunnings now has an approximate end date.

DAFFODILS are out in bloom and the good women of the Portland chapter of the Cancer Council will this week be out and about selling them to raise funds to help fight cancer.

FRANZ Moeller, 67, is a man comfortable on a bicycle, even though his family thinks he’s “nuts”. The Albany resident was relaxing for a few days in Portland as he journeys solo around southern Australia on a bike. He joined the ranks of the retired in February and hit the road in May this year. […]

STUDENTS at St John’s Lutheran Primary School got their hands dirty last Friday by planting 250 trees for National Tree Day. Native trees were planted on the school property, not only to acknowledge National Tree Day but to provide vegetation to the koalas regularly spotted on the grounds. Students learned how to care for the […]

IT was the end of an era for both a beloved Portland couple and the town itself. Sunday, August 4, saw Paper Nautilus finally close and bookstore owner George Dowden told the Observer he was sad to see his shop go. “It’s not a very pleasant feeling actually,” he said “I am sort of not […]

THIS year’s journey in Cambodia was a blast for Bayview College students, who already miss the friendly faces they met during their stay. Sixteen of Bayview’s Year 12 students signed up to travel to Cambodia this year, including the trip’s coordinator Kym Maybery, teacher Reece Williams, chaplain and Days for Girls advocate Elizabeth Clements and […]

SINCE 2017, when Portland’s Kay Antony was bitten by the running bug, she has run the equivalent of 260 marathons – around 11,000km. She has completed marathons and ultramarathons around Australia and this year was all set to compete in the Boston marathon. It was the first time she had qualified for one of the […]

ON Sunday May 26, local cricket tragics Lyndon and Llewellyn Oakley left Australia’s winter weather behind for a whirlwind summer tour of England with Exotic Cricket Tours (ECT). The father and son pair later enjoyed a 10-day personal tour of Ireland together, then spent 12 days experiencing the best of Paris, Geneva, Venice, and Rome […]