ANOTHER Norfolk Island Hibiscus, or itchy bomb tree, is set to be removed from a central Portland nature strip, with some residents concerned about the impact on the local koala population.

THE RSL Memorial Bowling Club’s Ladies Singles Championship not only produced an intriguing game between Kim Overall and Robyn McCabe but also produced a result that was one for the record books.

IT might be hard to compare it to recent Christmases past, but Portlanders don’t appear to be taking the Scrooge route to spending up during this year’s festive season.

YOUNG Portland cricketer Tighe Warburton finished up his journey with Western Waves’ under-16 representative team last week, with the team participating in a total of seven matches in the Youth Premier League across almost three weeks.

A BIG year of growth for the Portland Netball Association was capped off with some hard-fought grand finals on Monday to bring an end to the season.

SOME 36 crew members of the cattle transport ship Yangtze Fortune have been stuck, abandoned and unpaid by their employer, at anchor in Portland for nearly three months.

SEVENTEEN-YEAR-OLD talent Rufus Punton is waiting to find out if his artwork will make it into the National Gallery Victoria exhibition, Top Arts 2023.

“I THINK a lot of other sports as options is why there aren’t a lot of girls playing cricket and sometimes they might think, ‘oh cricket that’s so boring’, but I think sports like basketball can be boring, so we’ve all got our thing. I think if other girls came and had a go, they’d realise it can be quite fun – I used to think cricket was boring but now I love it,” Macey Williamson.

PORTLAND got the job done in their final game of 2022 in the Country Basketball League women’s division, with an impressive 81-61 win over Terang in Terang on Sunday.

THIS year might have been the first since 2019 that schools (and everyone else) had close to what might be termed a normal time of it – but it might be fair to say the coronavirus pandemic actually wreaked more havoc.