ONCE a month, the Portland Soccer Club rooms turn into a sandwich making factory, producing hundreds of lunches to be distributed among the district’s schools for students who go without.

IT’S that time of year again with the return of the pleasant musical Sunday afternoons - ‘Music in the Gardens’.

SOUTHERN Grampians Shire Council has recently carried out almost $40,000 worth of improvements to the Hamilton Regional Livestock Exchange (HRLX) to further develop Western Victoria’s premier sheep market sales facility.

FURTHER disruption to traffic at Cox Street will continue with the announcement of the Lonsdale St roundabout being closed while the works continue.

BLOCKING the Glenelg Highway just after 8am on Tuesday morning was a semi-trailer truck, after missing a turn into a driveway.

OFFERING support at The Jam last Friday night was local band Twisted Hearts (front, from left): Addison Hockey, Charlotte Dahl, Jenna Charman and (back) Bonnie Jackson.

IT’S hard to believe Nancy Outtram started teaching in 1970.

FRIDAY morning, the Portland community was invited to walk against gender-based violence to kick of the 16 Days of Activism.

SEVERAL OTR Hungry Jacks drive-thru workers were sent for a precautionary hospital check up on Saturday afternoon after a safety equipment failure caused carbon monoxide levels to elevate at the Coleraine Rd site.

CLIMBING and hiking bans are still in place at Mt Arapiles Tooan State Park in western Victoria after three years with no indication of when they will be lifted.