Dig out your knitting needles
WHAT can you make with some wool and knitting needles? Beanies.
Rotary Club of Portland and Seaview Real Estate have partnered together to take on...
Portland shipping fuel project announced
PORTLAND could be the home of a facility worth hundreds of millions of dollars, producing a low carbon shipping fuel alternative for the Port...
Get those dancing shoes on
THE Something for Everyone cabaret at the South Portland Hall on Saturday night certainly lived up to its name.
A special feature hosted by the...
ABA Portland celebrates 40 years
MAY 4, 2023, marks an important milestone for an essential Portland community service: 40 years of continuous support and education to local breastfeeding mothers...
Ruby’s cut for a good cause
AT just nine years old, Portlander Ruby Smith has decided to lop off her golden locks for the second time, to be donated and...
Community garden coming together
THE Heywood Community Garden project is slowly coming together with the help of extra hands.
Last Monday, a meeting was held at Heywood and District...
The needle turns up in the haystack
FRANK Franklin might have been just one of 8141 Australians killed at Gallipoli and his story might never have been told – but the Milltown native now lives on thanks to the persistence of a family who should have been his descendants.
Calling all actors
THIS year’s major production for the CEMA Theatre Group promises to be a cracker – now what’s needed is people to play the roles.
Anzac Day lives strong in Portland
PORTLANDERS came out in numbers not seen in years, with the joining schools, veterans and their families, and the general public to remember and pay respects on Anzac Day.
Riders hit the road for Destiny
IN the middle of her treatment for aggressive stage three cancer, Portland woman Destiny Anderson-Harvey has felt the community get behind her fight.
On Saturday,...
A home for the rangers
THE number of Indigenous owned assets and commercial enterprises in Gunditjmara Country continues to grow, with the community last week celebrating a permanent home...
A catch to remember
YOUNG Portland fisherman Lewis Hameka this week received a special (and to some unnerving) memento of his first mako shark – its jaw, complete...
Minister’s visit ‘fantastic: Prince
FEDERAL Minister for Industry and Innovation Tim Ayres spent the morning of Wednesday September 19 touring the factory floor of Prince Engineering as part...
