LOCAL umpiring has seen two significant milestones at different ends of the spectrum across the past week in the South West District Football Netball League. Football umpires Sonny Sealey and Chris Evans are at contrasting points in their umpiring careers with Sealey notching up his first senior football match as a central umpire last weekend […]

IT could be said that art was in Maureen Watts’s blood. Sadly, the artist passed away last week, and a planned exhibition will now serve as a celebration of her life and art with the display at the Julia Street Creative Space from August 3 to August 31. The exhibition comprises of pots, paintings, prints […]

AN 84-place childcare centre planned for Portland aims to relieve the shire’s childcare drought. Victorian developers Jane and William Johnson are about to submit plans to Glenelg Shire Council to build the Portland Early Learning Centre in Richardson Street. If approved, they hope to start building before the year is out, with the opening date […]

BUNDARRA Primary School students recently spent a day of the Hands on Learning program testing their photography skills out on the town. Bundarra’s Hands on Learning program takes on 10 individual grade 5 and 6 students for each semester, teaching them skills such as gardening, cooking, crafting and photography. Students get to take part in […]

PORTLAND Arts Centre celebrated its 50th anniversary on Saturday night with a whole lot of glitz, glam, feathers, exotic costumes and singing. Exactly 120 people bought tickets to Shower Songs, a show jam-packed with glamour, burlesque and singalong hits. But it wasn’t only sparkling dresses and tastefully placed tassels, because Portland members of CEMA (Council […]

THE Portland Foreshore Community Pavilion project tender has been halted. That is the big news from the Tuesday night’s Glenelg Shire meeting, as councillors debated the fate of the troubled project. Councillors had before them, five possible recommendations for the project: 1. Council endorses the halting of the Portland Foreshore Community Pavilion project tender for […]

A PORTLAND business owner is calling out for the amenity rooms on Henty Street to be open longer, after someone defecated near the back door of his store.

THE Countdown is on for Portland’s very own Amazing Race on July 28.

SOUTH Warrnambool jumped out of the blocks at the start of the semi-final clash in the Western Victoria Female Football League on Sunday evening to defeat Tyrendarra in the senior women’s match up 16.10 (106) to 0.1 (1).

IN a game that will go a long way to deciding the final make-up of the top three in the South West District Football League, Tyrendarra was able to get their nose in front in the home straight with a win, 11.6 (72) to Dartmoor’s 9.8 (62).