Articles by Jacob Traynor

  • Showroom concept for Birregurra

    Beautiful boutique letterboxes and birdhouses would wow visitors at a proposed showroom at Birregurra.

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  • Licence loss for repeat rule breaker

    A Colac diesel mechanic who refused a drug test and declined to tell his boss about a licence suspension has avoided prison but lost his driving privileges for four years.

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  • Council seeks power guarantee

    Colac Otway Shire Council wants Powercor to promise that a staffing shake-up won’t increase blackout delays at Apollo Bay – with the company doubling down on its assurance.

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  • Ocean blast anger: Seismic test plan ruffles Apollo Bay

    Apollo Bay fishers, surfers and environmentalists are up in arms about gas explorers’ plans to seismic blast an area of the Otway Basin that’s bigger than Tasmania.

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  • Arrest over Colac stabbing

    Investigators have charged a 19-year-old from the Camperdown district over the alleged stabbing of a man in Colac.

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  • Conviction for intervention order breach

    A Colac man continually breached an intervention order over Christmas, turned up at a home armed with an axe and blamed drink-driving on a medical spray, a court has heard.

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  • Road surface sparks re-route

    A bus company says a Warrion road’s condition is so poor that it is re-routing a school service, with a resident blaming inadequate maintenance.

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  • Loo strategy vote for council

    Colac Otway Shire Council wants to lock in a new-look loo strategy, with a vote at a council meeting tonight.

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