Articles by Jacob Traynor

  • Chin community plan on hold

    Hundreds of people from Melbourne’s Chin community are still keen to live and work in Colac, a spokesperson says.  

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  • Survey results coming

    Apollo Bay’s biggest need is for permanent housing and people are considering moving away because of the lack of long-term rentals, community members say.

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  • Police just passing through

    A heavy police presence has turned heads in Colac and district, but residents have little reason to worry.

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  • Information wanted on damage

    Vandals have apparently targeted an Apollo Bay business’ advertising twice within a week.

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  • Four-year ban for driver

    “It was 50 days of the worst decision making of his life.” That’s how a lawyer described an Elliminyt man’s string of drug driving offences, after police caught him five times across less than three months late last year.  

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  • Colac truck finds home in Ireland

    This is the story of an Irishman, a Colac district truck and a dream 35 years in the making.  

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  • Birregurra footpath build starts

    Colac Otway Shire Council has begun building a long-called-for footpath along a Birregurra street.

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  • New home for last goose

    Carers have rehomed Apollo Bay’s last remaining wild goose, as the community mourns the loss of its mate.

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