PORTLAND’S senior footballers had victory in the palm of their hand on Saturday but were ultimately left shattered as they went down to a Cobden goal in the final seconds of their Hampden Football League clash, with the final score 15.10 (100) to 14.13 (97).

A GROUP of local darts players have demonstrated their strength in the region after their team, Bushrangers, claimed the Hamilton and District Darts Association championship.

DARTMOOR Community came together July 25 for a three-course-meal put together Dartmoor Primary School students. To raise funds for their playground, the school’s 12 students plus their teachers held a meal fundraiser at the school for local community members to join. Funding for a new playground had been an ongoing project for two years and […]

PORTLAND’S Gwen Smith has just turned 90-years-old and is busy most days knitting squares to keep her hands occupied. Mrs Smith enjoys knitting when she watches sport on the television or if she has free time. “I don’t have to do it, I just do it,” she said. “I’m not a reader, and I can’t […]

THE Hockey South West season paused on Saturday to give players an opportunity to compete in an 11-a-side game, compared to the usual format of five-a-side.

A COUNTBACK to fill the Glenelg Shire councillor vacancy created by the resignation of Anita Rank will have to be held again, after the successful candidate declined the role. Robyn McDonald, the highest-polling unsuccessful candidate at the 2020 election, was elected to the council following a countback conducted by the Victorian Electoral Commission on Wednesday, […]

THE South West District Football League’s season is approaching its crescendo, with tomorrow’s round 15 action being the second last time that all eight teams will be in action this year.

MORE than 200 people attended a community information session in Portland on Wednesday evening on the proposed offshore wind farm zone, but what they came for and what they got appeared to be separate things to many of them.   The event at the Portland Golf Club was advertised as a drop-in session by the […]

WHILE their division one side may have had a week off, there was still plenty of soccer action at home for Portland in the South West Victoria Football Association.

PORTLAND Bay Press has, like most community organisations, had its ups and downs but it has persevered and will this week hold an exhibition to celebrate its 20th birthday. The studio at Julia Street Creative Space was officially opened on July 19, 2003, after a battle to get there. Inaugural president and Portland Bay Press […]