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...
Locally designed software to make NDIS easier
A PORTLAND woman is working to make the NDIS easier to navigate, after years of drowning in paperwork, and having to explain her own...
Cheap transport fares a winner
RECENTLY elected Victorian upper house member Jacinta Ermacora visited Portland on Monday, to celebrate the significant cut in fares with local bus users.
Since the...
Big bill for Portland Aluminium smelter as production issues addressed
ALCOA says that it has restored the stability of the production process at the Portland Aluminium smelter – and for the first time has...
‘It’s a great thing’
THERE are friendships, there are lifelong friendships, then there’s the story of Warwick McEachern and Jack Kerr.
From the Great Depression through a world war,...
Student exchange program returns
THE Rotary Club of Portland is getting its youth exchange program back up and running, and is looking for young locals who are interested...
Exceeding expectations: Storer claims biggest win to date
LUKE Storer earned his biggest sprintcar win to date after he was crowned the Chariots of Thunder champion in Darwin on Sunday September 14...
