Articles by Colac Herald Contributor

  • Greening project to reduce impact

    Colac Otway’s Climate Action Team knows the importance of trees in keeping cities and towns cool.

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  • Emergency relief kits for high-risk towns

    Today is the United Nation’s International Day for Disaster Reduction and Colac Otway Shire Council is rolling out Emergency Relief “Starter Kits” to 10 high-risk townships across the shire.

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  • Players’ festival success

    Five members of The Colac Players have taken their talents to Norfolk Island, performing alongside an array of other Australian and New Zealand lovers of community theatre, and proudly returned with accolades for their creative achievements.

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  • Community planning for Lorne water security

    Barwon Water has recognised the “breadth of experience and knowledge” of members of a new Lorne Community Working Group who have met for the first time as part of the Lorne: Water, Your Say program.

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  • Letters to the Editor

    Hope for “hand of friendship” As I lurch, stumble into my old age I find that I cannot do many things that I once took for granted. The author Philip Roth described old age as more of a massacre than a battle, I concur. The only plus so far is that a lover of books […]

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  • Voice poll favours “Yes” vote

    Ahead of the Voice to Parliament Referendum on Saturday, the Colac Herald has conducted an online poll to see how its readers would vote and why.

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  • Three injured in crash

    Three people were injured in a two-vehicle crash at Elliminyt on Friday, and police are urging drivers to concentrate when they get behind the wheel.

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  • Scotts Creek man dies in crash

    Police are seeking community help with their investigation into a fatal crash in Simpson which claimed the life of a 65-year-old Scotts Creek man.

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