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A BUILDING permit application to be released by Heritage Victoria next week details a three lot subdivision and the construction of a pair of two-storey town houses at the Customs House site. The building at 95 Cliff St was built [...]
PRESSURE on Portland’s public housing services is easing with fewer applicants waiting for accommodation, but the state government says the current model is unsustainable and needs changing. The number of people on Portland’s housing waiting list has dropped 12.8 per [...]
THE reality of Sunday’s IGA fire is only just beginning to sink in for employees who convened at the Fawthrop Community Centre Wednesday to learn of their future. Employees were addressed by owner Michael Daly and representatives from the Glenelg [...]
THREE brazen thieves stole roughly $1000 worth of goods from Toy World Portland in broad daylight on Tuesday. Two males and a female, who was pushing a pram, browsed the store for 45 minutes and ask for assistance from store [...]
FIFTY cartons of cigarettes valued at roughly $5000 were stolen from the burnt-out IGA Monday night as staff and owners try to rebuild. Portland police Sergeant Ray Hastings said the thieves broke-in through a window sometime between Monday night and [...]
LESS Portland residents are relying on Centrelink payments for income than this time last year. According to the Department of Human Services, 293 unemployed people were using the local Centrelink branch in March 2012 for Newstart and Youth allowances, compared [...]
AFTER a month of consulting with lawyers to close the tent embassy, the Glenelg Shire Council will allow protestors to stay because Gunditj Mirring Corporation no longer supports the council’s recommendation for removal. The decision was finalised by councillors behind [...]
TWENTY-ONE Portland businesses and households declared bankruptcy during the 2010/11 financial year. They are among roughly 100 south-west personal insolvencies declared in the wake of the global financial crisis, according to a report released last week by the Federal Government’s [...]
NEARLY a quarter of the Portland police force has been honoured for longstanding ethical service. Eight of the station’s nearly 40 police officers recently received National or Victorian Police Service Medals. The medals are presented to all police officers after [...]
DUE to increasing demand in aged care an estimated $10 million extension of Glenelg Community Aged Care is planned to be completed within two years. The extension will house up to 90 beds in three wings that will be three [...]
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