Articles by Colac Herald Contributor

  • 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.

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  • MIRACLE WORKERS: Heart drug helped save Cobden man’s life

    A COBDEN man has thanked paramedics who treated him with a life-saving drug while he was having a heart attack.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • MAYORAL MATTERS: Highway upgrade bringing benefits

    MAYOR Frank Buchanan outlines the benefits of the Princes Highway duplication, and slams a report criticising the road project.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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