Articles by Jacob Traynor

  • Magistrate slams driver over roadside outburst

    A Colac man who chased a neighbour with a metal tool in a “road rage”-like attack has received a scolding from a magistrate.

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  • Council remains quiet about $350,000 spend

    Colac Otway Shire Council is keeping shtum about whether it will be able to recoup an extra $350,000 that it paid to redo a Colac sports oval upgrade.

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  • 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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