Articles by A Staff Reporter

  • Falls an ideal wedding venue

    An Apollo Bay couple who married at Marriner’s Falls say reopening Paradise’s picturesque waterfalls would draw more people to the coastal town and its surrounds.

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  • Electoral divisions to change

    Colac and Beeac will move into a federal electorate that’s six times the size of their current electorate.

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  • Proposed electoral changes draw objections

    Colac Otway Shire mayor Joe McCracken and Corangamite MP Sarah Henderson say they will object to the Australian Electoral Commission’s proposal to split the shire across two federal electorates.

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  • Colac business acquires Gippsland sawmill

    Associated Kiln Driers Softwoods has officially taken ownership of the Yarram Sawmill in Gippsland after finalising the purchase with Carter Holt Harvey Woodproducts.

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  • Friends dig deep to surprise south-west fire victims

    Friends have raised $20,000 for an Elingamite man’s 21st birthday party after the south-west fires destroyed his home.

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  • Teacher, librarian and archivist retires today

    Helen Paatsch can recall a time when Trinity College Colac was a boys-only school, when St Joseph’s College came to share the site, and later the transition to a co-educational facility.

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  • Fires, wild weather and property loss

    More than 16 homes have been destroyed, 30 to 40 sheds burnt and stock killed in devastating fires which ripped through communities west of Colac over the weekend.

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  • Man and woman still in custody after a $650,000 cannabis bust

    A 37-year-old man and a 20-year-old woman, arrested and charged over a $650,000 cannabis bust at Warrion, will remain in custody after unsuccessful bail applications.

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