Articles by A Staff Reporter

  • Ten-year lamb deal brings 60 new jobs

    A new 10-year deal between Colac’s Australian Lamb Company and Coles supermarkets will boost employment at the meat processing plant to about 600 workers.

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  • Young musicians eager to perform

    Colac and district music students are excited ahead of this weekend’s annual Colac eisteddfod.

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  • Farmers abandon processor

    Colac district dairy farmer Glen Armistead has stopped supplying Murray Goulburn after the “poor management” of the co-operative’s mid-season price cut.

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  • New $6.9M fire base will protect Otways

    A new $6.9-million State Government base at Barwon Downs will boost firefighters’ ability to respond to fires in the Otways.

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  • Safety upgrade for busy road

    An Apollo Bay police officer who has been on the scene of serious crashes on the Forrest-Apollo Bay Road hopes new guardrails and signs will improve safety.

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  • Husband facing jail for assault on wife

    A Colac man will appeal a four-month jail sentence after he threw a beer bottle at his wife, inflicting a seven-centimetre cut to her chin.

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  • Council gives answers on Bluewater

    Colac Otway Shire Council has finally responded to community concerns, raised in the Colac Herald, last week about the Bluewater stadium floor.

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  • Residents fight highway detour

    A disgruntled Colac man says he will continue to fight the Princes Highway detour despite roadwork already underway.

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