Articles by Billy Higgins

  • Swim classes return shortly

    Swimming classes will return to Bluewater next month after the State Government eased indoor pool restrictions.

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  • Fire permit system not ready for hundreds of Melbourne residents

    Colac Otway Shire Council is fielding hundreds of calls from locked down Melburnians eager to clean up their residential properties for fire season.

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  • Rainfall boosts Lake Colac

    Lake Colac’s depth is up 15 centimetres after an October downpour and is the deepest the lake has been in more than a year.

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  • Wannon could reach Winch

    Wannon’s electoral boundary would extend east to include the whole of Colac Otway Shire, under a change proposed by Australia’s leading political parties.

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  • Interstate travel on the cards for regions

    Premier Daniel Andrews had indicated that Sydney and Adelaide could open to regional Victorians before Melbourne does.

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  • Never too early to be fire ready

    Colac’s new fire chief says a wet spring is no excuse for complacency in the lead-up to fire season.

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  • Funding praised, but more needed

    A $55-million investment in the Princes Highway west of Colac will fail to make the road safe and efficient, a road advocacy group says.

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  • Caravan park lease loss threatens coast tourism

    Otways caravan park owners fear that their sites could resemble ghost towns during the peak holiday period, unless the Victorian Government urgently opens discussions to buy private business assets ahead of an imminent takeover.

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