Articles by Colac Herald Contributor

  • Otway community’s darkest Christmas

    THE BLAZE which destroyed 116 homes on Christmas Day is “still a big fire with a lot of potential”, a top firefighter has warned.

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  • Community unites to help evacuated people

    Apollo Bay and coastal communities for banded together to help people evacuated during the Christmas Day fires.

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  • Tenant trashes Colac property

    THE STATE Government hopes to have a Colac property, which tenants have abandoned with piles of rubbish and furniture, cleaned up “as soon as possible”.

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  • Lightning sparks fires in remote Otway bush

    FIREFIGHTING aircraft spent the weekend water bombing blazes in the Great Otway National Park near Lorne with government fire crews remaining on alert yesterday.

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  • Library’s annexe will close in July

    COLAC’S library annexe will close in July next year, despite two councillors fighting for a compromise to keep the service open during a two-hour debate

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  • Council will continue to fight for school site

    COLAC’S civic leaders have continued to defend the community’s right to regain a portion of the former Colac High School site, and they hope a land rezoning will seal the deal.

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  • MAYORAL MATTERS: Colac misses out on federal grant for CBD plan

    WE ARE disappointed to advise the community that our second application to the Federal Government’s National Stronger Regions Fund was unsuccessful.

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  • Asylum seeker pleas to remain in Colac

    COMMUNITY leaders are rallying to support an Iranian asylum seeker who has lived and worked in Colac for three years as he fights to stay in Australia.

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