Articles by Colac Herald Contributor

  • Have your say on visitor services

    Campaigners are urging the community to support their call for volunteers to be reinstated at Colac’s Visitor Information Centre so they can share their local knowledge of the region with tourists and prospective new residents.

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  • Warrion Flower Show

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  • Prices increase slightly at sale

    Colac Regional Saleyards recorded 202 head of cattle at its weekly fat sale on Thursday.

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  • Haunted households welcome Halloween

    Colac’s Deb McLeod and her cousin Wendy Carr love Halloween so much they spend countless hours turning Deb’s front yard into a haunted house, complete with graveyard and all-things scary for the annual event!

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  • Survey on visitor services

    Local business operators and residents are being asked to share their ideas and thoughts about the tourism service provided to visitors to Colac Otway Shire.

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  • Broiler farm proposal

    A planning application seeking approval to build two free-range broiler farms at Birregurra to house more than 1.6 million chickens has been lodged with Colac Otway Shire Council.

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  • Charles Stewart & Co announce sale

    Fifth-generation Colac-based real estate and livestock business Charles Stewart and Company has assured customers and the local community that it’s “business as usual”.

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  • Quarry causes lifestyle and environmental concerns

    Planning decisions made by the former Shire of Colac to allow a rural-residential lifestyle subdivision next to a quarry decades ago are now impacting local residents, the environment and the quarry’s new owner.

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