Line dancing and rock ‘n’ roll
SOUTH Portland Hall Committee is once again hosting a cabaret with something for everyone, inviting people near and far to grab their dancing shoes...
Schools prep for Performing Arts Festival
STUDENTS across Portland and the district are warming up their voices and tuning their instruments for this year’s Performing Arts Festival.
Mid-2025 for completion of Bunnings store
THE construction period of the new Portland Bunnings now has an approximate end date.
See yellow this Daffodil Day
DAFFODILS are out in bloom and the good women of the Portland chapter of the Cancer Council will this week be out and about selling them to raise funds to help fight cancer.
Portland visited by cycling adventurer
FRANZ Moeller, 67, is a man comfortable on a bicycle, even though his family thinks he’s “nuts”.
The Albany resident was relaxing for a few...
Students plant 250 trees for resident koalas
STUDENTS at St John’s Lutheran Primary School got their hands dirty last Friday by planting 250 trees for National Tree Day.
Native trees were planted...
End of an era for Portland bookselling couple
IT was the end of an era for both a beloved Portland couple and the town itself.
Sunday, August 4, saw Paper Nautilus finally close...
Students return from assisting schools in Cambodia
THIS year’s journey in Cambodia was a blast for Bayview College students, who already miss the friendly faces they met during their stay.
Sixteen of...
People of Portland: Kay Antony
SINCE 2017, when Portland’s Kay Antony was bitten by the running bug, she has run the equivalent of 260 marathons – around 11,000km.
She has...
Lifelong artist celebrated in solo exhibition
IT could be said that art was in Maureen Watts’s blood.
Sadly, the artist passed away last week, and a planned exhibition will now serve...
New childcare vision for Portland
AN 84-place childcare centre planned for Portland aims to relieve the shire’s childcare drought.
Victorian developers Jane and William Johnson are about to submit plans...
Students take their photography skills around town
BUNDARRA Primary School students recently spent a day of the Hands on Learning program testing their photography skills out on the town.
Bundarra’s Hands on...
Upwelling Festival call out
THIS year’s Bonney Upwelling Festival theme is ‘Ecology and Economy’, inspiring coast dwellers to embrace all aspects of the ocean as well as the...
