Articles by Colac Herald Contributor

  • Police increase patrols after another highway smash

    Colac Highway Patrol will increase its presence on the Princes Highway between Colac and Winchelsea in the wake of yet another serious crash.

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  • Grassfire burns across district

    A grassfire started by a ride-on lawnmower at Yeo, east of Colac, on Saturday burnt about 54 hectares before firefighters brought the blaze under control.

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  • Bi-lingual pamphlets help tourists drive through region

    Lavers Hill police officer Ray Doensen says pamphlets with road safety advice for visitors to the Otways are a “great start” to reducing crashes and near-misses.

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  • Road still in disrepair despite commitment

    A pot-holed section of a major Otways’ road has been waiting 18 months for repairs, despite a commitment from VicRoads that it would be fixed by February last year.

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  • Colac mother fights back from 30-day coma

    Colac’s Junice Conway says spending about 30 days in a coma, experiencing horrific nightmares, and learning to walk again was still easier than what her family went through.

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  • MP dishes out explosive claims

    Less than 10 per cent of crashes reported in Colac Otway and Corangamite shires in the five years to mid-2017 involved international visitors, according to VicRoads statistics.

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  • Family man dies after Colac crash

    Steven Arter says his friend Peter Jolley was always “the joker” and, while there had been lots of tears since last Friday’s crash in Colac, there had also been time to share happy memories.

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  • Couple uninjured in house fire

    The Country Fire Authority’s Mark Billing has praised the first firefighters on the scene of a house fire at Gellibrand who managed to contain the blaze to an upstairs room.

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