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The Labor Government this week promised $1.25m to upgrade the substandard Portland gymnastics facility at Yarraman Park, if successful in this month’s state election.

Locals were treated to a vignette of performance art, art installations, music and fashion at the sold out return of the Abandoned art event last weekend.

ONE of tomorrow’s main events might have fallen victim to the uncertain weather, but it’s still looking like the biggest day for Portland and the wider region since before the coronavirus pandemic.

THE Country Women’s Association (CWA) Burswood Branch turned 70 last Tuesday, and there was plenty of tea, cakes and memories to be shared.

STRONG numbers made their way to Portland’s Memorial Triangle to commemorate Remembrance Day on Friday, November 11.

THE Old Time Wood Days are well and truly back.

THE Heywood Hotel was egged last Friday by a group of local and not so local artists part of Brave New Skills (BNS) Art Collective.

WHAT do Portland and reality television show LEGO Masters Denmark have in common?

TONY Fleming has been the public face of Promoting Portland since it was launched six years ago, but the organisation now has a new president.

“I JUST wanted to make a difference and I love helping people.”

REMEMBRANCE DAY this year in Portland will be paying special respect to veterans who have served in more recent conflicts that Australia has been involved in. After the service on Friday at the Portland Memorial Triangle, the Portland RSL will be unveiling a plaque recognising veterans from the first and second gulf wars in Iraq, the Afghanistan war, and the peacekeeping mission in East Timor.

A LOCAL crossing supervisor received a great surprise when she was declared the best in the whole of Victoria Gail Birch has been Portland South Primary School’s friend and crossing lady for seven years, standing her ground on Moorhouse Street for seven years every morning and afternoon.