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 […]
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 […]
Bundarra Primary School has established a ninja course. After laying down a new bike track with fundings received for sports facilities, the primary school decided to use leftover funds to put in build a ninja course in the playground. The course includes a large solar powered stopwatch at the start so students can time how […]
IT might still be some way off the records of five years ago, but there are positive signs for the Port of Portland with an improvement in the volume going through. Chief executive Greg Burgoyne said 6.081 million tonnes went through the port in the 2022-23 financial year, about 400,000 tonnes more than in 2021-22. […]
PORTLAND’S Sarah Pedrazzi was not expecting to be fighting bushfires in the middle of July, least of all on the other side of the world. But that’s exactly what the Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action (DEECA) Forest Fire Operations Officer found herself doing over the last five weeks, after she and a crew […]
POLICE are appealing for information to help find a man wanted relating to a 1997 murder, who disappeared near Portland a month ago and has since been spotted travelling across the state. Keith Lees, who had lived in Portland for around three years, was the partner of 25 year-old Victorian woman Meaghan Louise Rose when […]