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Steve Robertson | SOMEWHERE in Greece, there’s a merchant seaman who reckons Portlanders are just about the nicest people on the planet. At Monday’s 50th anniversary celebrations for Portland’s Mission to Seafarers, manager Neville Manson told a story to about 35 guests, a tale that neatly encapsulates what the mission is all about. “A Greek ship arrived in port and one of the crewmen had a very serious skin rash that could have been debilitating,” Mr Manson recalled. “He was terrified the condition [...] 0 Comments
Tiana Richardson | SCORES of people ventured out on a chilly Portland Monday evening to show support for the embattled Sea View House. Support was so strong for the facility that 25 people at the meeting nominated to join the new Sea View [...] 0 Comments
Ross Moir | DYLAN Guy only had his car three weeks before a run-in with a deer on April 14 damaged it beyond repair. After seeing a picture of the deer that crippled his car in last Wednesday’s edition of the Portland Observer, [...] 0 Comments
Ross Moir | A THREE-CAR collision at the intersection of Percy and Townsend streets at 3.45pm on Monday left one person in hospital and another with minor injuries. Police, ambulance and CFA attended the accident. According to Ambulance Victoria spokeswoman Gabriel Degenhardt, ambulance [...] 0 Comments
Ross Moir | BUNDARRA Primary is preparing to bid a fond farewell to mainstay Carmel Cleary after 30 years work at the school. Mrs Cleary has been working at Bundarra since it was Portland South West Primary, after the split from Portland South [...]
Kristy McDonald | DUNKELD was on Channel Nine’s weather radar on Sunday, as the network’s Today show broadcast live from the town’s arboretum at the foot of the Grampians. Grampians Tourism paired with the broadcaster to promote the region as a tourism destination, [...]
Kristy McDonald | A 40-YEAR-OLD Macarthur man escaped serious injury after his car hit a wallaby before rolling into an embankment on Grampians Rd on Sunday night. Dunkeld Police station commander, Leading Senior Constable Dave Walkley said the accident happened at Mirrinatwa Gap [...]
Sam Fleming | LET’S get passenger trains back to Hamilton for the races! That was the message coming from Merino resident, Ian Whalley, who said that this year would be the perfect time to use the railway line to bring people from Melbourne [...]
Danielle Grindlay | IT’S confirmed: Southern Grampians Shire is the heart of Victoria, where the most people gave blood in an Australian Red Cross Blood Service challenge. A campaign that pitted town against town saw local residents give 257 donations between March 19 [...]
Emma-Jayne Schenk | GRAY St will be hit with an “urban menagerie”, according to objectors to a proposal to build six single-story dwellings on an empty block. They claim the project will devalue the area and create a plethora of problems for nearby [...]
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