Articles by Colac Herald Contributor

  • Praise for district firefighters

    Colac district fire crews remain on high alert today, after a weekend of scorching heat and northerly wind gusts reaching more than 60 kilometres an hour.

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  • Community grants program open

    Colac Otway Shire’s 2024-25 Grants Program is now open and community groups, sporting clubs, local event organisers and businesses are encouraged to apply.

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  • Rain a rarity in February

    Less than a millimetre of rain fell across the Colac district in February and Colac’s water storages have dropped 10 per cent in the past week.

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  • Cows unfazed by dairy visitor

    Colac district dairy farmer John Ryan says he has been milking at Bungador for 45 years and has never had a koala take up residence in his dairy before.

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  • Council reschedules meeting

    Colac Otway Shire Council will reconvene its February meeting to a later date after adjourning Wednesday night’s meeting in response to concern for a councillor.

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  • Hub feasibility funding consideration

    A potential decision today to seek government funding could be the first step to create a “cultural and tourism hub” with at least four-star tourist accommodation in Colac’s CBD.

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  • Letters to the Editor

    Thanks to Lake Colac swimmers On checking the death column in Monday’s Colac Herald, to our delight, I found out that the four elite superfish had not come to any mysterious death, from being so totally defiant and swimming from Meredith Park to the foreshore beach, rising up out of the water like four Neptunes, […]

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  • Sighting triggers big cat memories

    A recent “panther sighting” near Deans Marsh might have proven to be the infamous timber cut-out created by a local artist, but it did trigger a Winchelsea resident’s clear memories of big cats in the Otways.

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