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.

PORTLAND Coasters have retained the services of Rebel Noter for the upcoming 2023-24 Country Basketball League season, albeit in a different capacity.

PORTLAND has unveiled its newest kits that it will be wearing for the remainder of the South West Victoria Football Association season and into the future, with their first appearance to be in a home fixture against Corangamite on Sunday.

PORTLAND’S under-18.5 Hampden Football League side has taken major steps forward over the course of the 2023 season and will be looking to capitalise on those with a win against a struggling Terang-Mortlake outfit tomorrow at Hanlon Park.

THE Portland Kyokushin Karate Club hosted its 10th annual Portland Open Border Challenge over the weekend, with contestants travelling from far and wide to take part in a day with plenty of action.