Articles by Jacob Traynor

  • Money staying in Bay amid “precedent” fears

    Potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars in profit from selling Apollo Bay’s community-gifted former preschool will fund childcare in the coastal hamlet.

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  • Council rejoins lobby group

    Colac Otway Shire Council will once again become a paid-up member of a south-west local government group.

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  • Western Oval reopens after troubled upgrade

    Cross-town sporting rivals will clash under lights at Colac’s Western Oval this weekend, with officials completing an important section of drainage works on the ground.

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  • Cool Kelly drops in

    The greatest professional surfer of all time has swapped out big waves for a tapas board at a Colac pub.

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  • No jail for attack on bouncer

    A Colac business owner who kicked in a door and threw a pint glass at a bouncer during a booze-fuelled night of offending has avoided jail.

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  • Anzac Day events return

    They shall not grow old –and come Monday morning, Colac and district will be ready to remember them.

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  • Police seek details to locate lawnmowers

    Seriously brazen thieves have stolen two lawnmowers in two days – both while victims were still mowing the lawn.

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  • Motorist suspended after drunken crash

    A Colac plumber who got his money’s worth of free beer before ploughing into a power pole has received a criminal conviction for drink driving.

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