PORTLANDERS came out in numbers not seen in years, with the joining schools, veterans and their families, and the general public to remember and pay respects on Anzac Day.

PORTLAND’S defence of their South West Victorian Football Association premiership will begin on Sunday, with the Panthers set to travel to Corangamite to take on the Lions and kick off their 2023 season.

PORTLAND earned themselves a hard-fought and much-needed victory on Tuesday in their Anzac Day clash with Hamilton Kangaroos in the Hampden Football League, with the final scores 9.6 (60) to 4.15 (39) on the Tigers’ home deck of Hanlon Park.

THE Greater South West Junior Football League returned to action for round two over the weekend, with five games played across the under-17 and under-14 age brackets.

PORTLAND’S under-18 youth girls team had a strong tussle in their second match for the Western Victoria Female Football League season against Cavendish, going down by just 14 points on Sunday.

IN the middle of her treatment for aggressive stage three cancer, Portland woman Destiny Anderson-Harvey has felt the community get behind her fight. On Saturday, around 100 people travelled on motorcycles and in classic cars from Hamilton to Portland, as part of the ‘Ride for Destiny’ fundraiser rally. Around $11,000 was raised through registrations, donations, […]

THE number of Indigenous owned assets and commercial enterprises in Gunditjmara Country continues to grow, with the community last week celebrating a permanent home for the Winda-Mara Aboriginal Corporation’s Budj Bim Rangers program. The rangers had been operating out of the former car dealership on the Henty Highway in Portland as tenants of the building […]

PORTLAND and Hamilton will take to Hanlon Park today for the annual Anzac Day clash, in what senior coach Jarrod Holt said is their “biggest game of the year.”

PORTLAND’S Open netballers are ready to get back on the court for a momentous day of sport today in their Hampden Football Netball League Anzac Day clash against Hamilton.

ELLA Matters has returned from one of her biggest achievements to date, swimming in the Australian Age Championships in the Gold Coast last week.