Articles by Jacob Traynor

  • Vital project: new initiative to face men’s family violence

    A new program starting in Colac this week will help keep men who might use family violence reverse their responses and stay connected with their families.  

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  • Brothers earn convictions for Colac assault

    Two local brothers have been convicted over a coward’s punch incident at a Colac nightclub.

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  • Burglary stats down across Colac Otway

    COVID has put a dint in burglars’ behaviour in Colac Otway Shire, new data shows, with more people hanging around home during the pandemic.

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  • Fox attack: victim issues warning after Birre mauling

    An 80-year-old Birregurra marathon runner’s bloody tangle with a vicious fox has ended with a rabies shot and a warning about taking on feral animals.  

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  • Bridge collapses as truck crosses

    A truck driver who luckily escaped injury when a bridge collapsed beneath his vehicle at Chapple Vale says the bridge’s pylons were “absolutely rotten”.

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  • Council selects its new leader

    Acting Surf Coast chief Anne Howard will become Colac Otway Shire Council’s new council boss.

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  • Family issues plea to locate missing woman

    A Timboon 84-year-old who has been missing for six days is diabetic, hasn’t spent any money and could have been thinking she was going to far-north Western Australia.

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  • Bin day change rubbished

    Colac Otway Shire Council will seek public opinion about collecting garbage fortnightly and weekly food and organic waste pickups.

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