Articles by Alison Martin
COUNCIL BUDGET: Rate increase capped without service cuts
COLAC and district homeowners will face an average council rates and charges increase of about $45 next financial year, with rating increases capped at 2.5 per cent.
STAGE THREE: Colac faces tougher water restrictions
COLAC, Lorne and Apollo Bay will face stage three water restrictions from May 1 as water storages plummet in “unprecedented dry conditions”.
DOUBLING DOWN: Candidates prepared for federal election
CORANGAMITE voters are set to go to the polls on July 2, with the Federal Government using its inability to set up a building commission as the trigger for an early election.
LAW BOOST: $11 million for new Colac Police Station
THE COLAC community is celebrating the State Government’s commitment to spend $11.47 million on a new police station, replacing buildings dating back to the 1930s.
DRYING UP: Reservoir drops to 7.9 per cent
COLAC and district water storages have continued to drop, with the water system’s largest reservoir, the West Gellibrand, at just 7.9-per-cent capacity.
TRIBUNAL APPEAL: Bakery rejection shocks owners
IRREWARRA Sourdough’s John and Bronwynne Calvert say they are shocked and disappointed that councillors rejected their application to expand their business at Irrewarra.
RUNNING DRY: Dam levels plummet as drought persists
COLAC and district’s water storages are at 31-per-cent capacity, less than at the same time of year during the region’s 2007-2008 declared drought.
ROAD TO SOMEWHERE: Politicians take aim over ‘biased’ highway report
CORANGAMITE MP Sarah Henderson has slammed a “city-centric” study which failed to consider the Princes Highway’s vital role in Australia’s agriculture and tourism industries.