PORTLAND’S under-17 soccer side has gone from strength to strength in the 2023 South West Victorian Football Association season, as after a 4-2 win over Corangamite on Sunday they remain in third spot with five wins, a draw and only one loss from seven fixtures.

GRAEME Tonkin, in his own words, is always up for an adventure – and his most recent one might have topped them all. The Gorae farmer, wife Jenny and their Geelong-based son Jayden were all recently in Scotland for a unique motoring experience. Graeme and Jayden Tonkin were the driver and navigator respectively of a […]

WHILE most of the action at the Julia Street Creative Space takes place at ground level, look up a bit and there is now somewhere for community to gather. An upstairs room adjacent to the artist residence has recently been substantially renovated. Julia Street Creative Space convenor Robyn McDonald said the room, decorated as you’d […]

PORTLAND Motocross Club’s annual Dwayne’s Day in the Dirt event was a roaring success on the weekend, with the club hosting a record number of competitors on the grass track near Cape Bridgewater.

NOT often does the entire student and teacher cohorts of every school in the Portland district converge on the one place, but last week they did to celebrate NAIDOC Week with the theme For our Elders. From preps to final year students, around 2000 children filled the Portland Foreshore on Friday morning and, for the […]

IT was a lopsided weekend of football in the South West District Football League, with the smallest margin of victory recorded across the four matches being 64 points.

DARTMOOR was able to hold off an oncoming Westerns outfit to earn a 49-44 win in an impressive display in the South West District Netball League’s A grade competition.

PORTLANDERS lined the Cape Nelson Road railway overpass over the weekend to watch the first passenger train into the city for decades; somewhat behind schedule, but here. And despite the unforeseen delays leading to an ingloriously late start, Seymour Railway Heritage Centre Inc. (SRHC) John Crofts was delighted to see what he said were “wall […]

PORTLAND’S botanical heritage is under threat from an overpopulation of possums, which council workers say are being illegally released into the Portland Botanic Gardens. Several of the original trees planted in the 180-year-old gardens are under significant stress from the marsupials stripping leaves off them, while many other plants are also affected. Recently, Glenelg Shire […]

PORTLAND’S under-18.5 outfit produced a dominant performance against Terang-Mortlake, running out 17.20 (122) to 0.1 (1) victors.