Articles by Hannah Toohey

  • Low vacancy rates continue for Colac rentals

    Colac’s rental market remains tight, with a vacancy rate of just 1.4 per cent in July, as vacancy rates drop significantly across the country.

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  • Program empowers women

    Colac participants have praised the Women Leading Locally program, which aims to inspire women to get into local government.

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  • Exploring art therapy inspires local painter

    Living at Apollo Bay and working as an artist and art therapist, Caroline Williams describes her work as “organic, instinctive mark-making strongly inspired by nature”.

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  • Cressy railway’s fascinating story

    Local author and historian Norman Houghton has produced a new book about a historic railway line that linked the northern parts of the Colac Otway Shire.

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  • World premiere hits Geelong

    Geelong Arts Centre will host the world premiere of Hells Gates, a new Australian story from the Green Room award-winning team of storymakers at The Space Company.

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  • Tidy Towns honour for school

    Keep Australia Beautiful Victoria has announced its shortlist for the 2023 Tidy Towns and Cities Sustainability Awards, with Camperdown’s Mercy Regional College featured in the Education category.

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  • Top trainers test talents on Colac’s racetrack

    Colac Turf Club has hosted multiple prestigious trainers on its racing grounds in recent weeks, with 45 of Patrick Payne’s horses on the course proper for a day.

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  • Cat owners brace for curfew

    Surf Coast cat owners have less than nine weeks left to prepare for a shire-wide 24-hour cat curfew.

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