TOMORROW’S contests across the South West District Netball League will see some of the teams sitting out of the top four pushing for ladder points.

MAY 4, 2023, marks an important milestone for an essential Portland community service: 40 years of continuous support and education to local breastfeeding mothers and their families through the Nursing Mothers Association of Australia (NMAA). Now known as the Australian Breastfeeding Association (ABA), the support group was initially called the Nursing Mothers Association because the […]

PORTLAND’S under-18 youth girls’ team had their first win of the season on Sunday with an emphatic victory against Hamilton Kangaroos in round four of the Western Victoria Female Football League.

HEATHMERE earned their first win of the 2023 South West District Football League season, coming away with a 15.10 (100) to 7.7 (49) win over Westerns at Hanlon Park on Saturday.

AT just nine years old, Portlander Ruby Smith has decided to lop off her golden locks for the second time, to be donated and made into a wig for someone in need. On Friday, May 12, Ruby will be giving up around 36cm of her hair, in front of her fellow students at St John’s […]

THE Heywood Community Garden project is slowly coming together with the help of extra hands. Last Monday, a meeting was held at Heywood and District Secondary College (HDSC) to discuss who would take a role on the Community Gardens committee. Committee members were to be elected with coordinator, secretary, treasurer and public officer. The process […]

HEATHMERE has had the opportunity to showcase their new netball dresses in the first three rounds of the South West Football Netball League season, which were designed by A reserve and junior player Tigrha Cleary.

FRANK Franklin might have been just one of 8141 Australians killed at Gallipoli and his story might never have been told – but the Milltown native now lives on thanks to the persistence of a family who should have been his descendants.

ANZAC Day is a day with a great deal of significance for millions of Australians, but for Gunditjmara man Wally Lovett it’s an occasion that holds an extra special place in his heart.

THE Portland Heywood Football Challenge Cup will be revived on Sunday when the two clubs go head-to-head at the Heywood Golf Club.