Big crowds get Hooked
Portland’s annual Hooked on Portland event attracted huge crowds on Saturday January 18. Fishing competitions, seafood cooking demonstrations and exciting musical performances greeted patrons.
Survival Day gathering
There was a big crowd at the ’Celebrate Gunditj: Survival Day’ event on Sunday January 26 at the Portland foreshore to acknowledge the mourning,...
Online business course for farmers
Agriculture Victoria is inviting South West Victorian farm business owners and managers to take part in a free online business program.
The innovative program supports...
Hamilton market reports
HAMILTON LAMB
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15
Hamilton agents yarded 17,900 lambs, representing a decrease in numbers of 20,900 on the opening market for 2025 of which approximately...
Happy return for Genesis
The gift that keeps on giving: due to an ‘unscheduled incident’ on a recent test car I was left with a gap on my...
Portland local recognised by more than half a century of service
PORTLAND local Pixie Endacott has a gift.
For 52 years she has been helping young mothers with breast feeding.
Last week, Glenelg Shire Mayor Karen Stephens...
Here’s this year’s dux
YEAR 12 VCE students across Portland and the district anxiously started up their devices yesterday to find out their ATAR scores.
To their surprise, three...
Mo’s grown for Movember
THIS November, teachers from Portland Secondary College have been growing moustaches to raise funds for ‘Movember’.
They call themselves the PSC Mo Legends and the...
Portland protestors demand halt to seismic blasting
PROTESTERS descended on Nuns Beach on the weekend to call for a halt to seismic blasting in the Otway Basin.
The roughly 20 protesters unfurled...
A bus full of presents
THIS year’s 31st Toy Run saw 98 motorbikes hit the road and a bus loaded with presents for less fortunate kids this Christmas.
Motorbike riders...
A first for Portland RSL president
HISTORY was made last week with Ellen Linke being elected the first woman president of the Portland RSL Sub Branch at the organisation’s Annual...
Ambulance Code One incident response time improves
THERE has been a slight improvement in waiting times for ambulances responding to Code One incidents in Glenelg Shire.
According to an Ambulance Victoria’s Performance...
Myers farm on the market
Local philanthropist and barrister Allan Myers, AC, KC and his family have recently put one of their properties on the market. The farm, Condah...
