Articles by Jacob Traynor

  • Quarry Fears: Ondit residents oppose planned expansion

    Colac district families and farmers say they’ve been blindsided by a quarry’s application to expand its operations.

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  • Please fix the Princes

    “We see it on the daily”.

    Princes Highway potholes are causing havoc on Colac district vehicles, with reports of four cars towed in the space of hours in Colac’s west.

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  • GRAND PLANS: healthcare housing will put more homes on market

    A major healthcare housing project in Colac will draw key staff to Colac and release more rentals for locals, planners say.

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  • Nine decades of good deeds

    When the Rotary Club of Colac first formed, there were 22 members and the joining fee was two pounds, two shillings. Ninety years, hundreds of members and countless community works later, one of Colac’s most important volunteer groups is still going strong.

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  • Huge turnout to harvest fest

    Organisers of the Otway Producers’ Festival have lauded local turnout to the event on Sunday, with thousands of visitors passing through the gates at the Colac Showgrounds.

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  • Healthcare housing haul

    A new housing project will help attract doctors, nurses and health staff to live and work in Colac.

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  • Coroner’s ocean warning

    The drowning death of an Indian student at Marengo has prompted a Coroner to issue fresh ocean safety warnings.

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  • Vehicle veers off road at lake

    A man has been hospitalised after crashing down an embankment at Lake Colac.

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