Articles by Naomi Newcombe

  • Colac bank will relocate in 2025

    Colac’s ANZ store will move from its main street location next year.

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  • Bay life savers already making rescues

    Apollo Bay’s Surf Life Saving Club president is urging locals and tourists to swim between the red and yellow flags this summer season to ensure there isn’t a repeat of last year’s drownings and near-drownings on the coast.

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  • Owners seek usage change

    A proposal to change accommodation use of a cottage at a Johanna property hopes to address a housing undersupply.

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  • Caring Colac donates 120 bags

    The Christmas spirit is well and truly alive in Colac, with 120 essential item bags donated for the Colac West Rotary Club’s It’s in the Bag Christmas campaign.

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  • Tools down for iconic doc

    “I loved the people here.”

    That’s the reason Dr Andrew Wood has continued coming to Colac to fix the smiles of district residents for more than three decades.

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  • CARP PLAGUE: Fish damage boats, lake reputation at Colac regatta

    “The reputation of the lake has gone.”

    A weekend that was supposed to bring Lake Colac into the limelight for hosting its first regatta in more than 20 years has ended in a sour note with a plague of carp damaging multiple boats.

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  • Faulty equipment starts blaze

    Faulty farm machinery is to blame for more than a hectare of paddock going up in flames at Bambra.

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  • Dry conditions impact market

    A dry year has forced Colac and district farmers to bring their cattle to market early, with one farmer describing the year as the “worst conditions” he’s seen in 70 years of farming.

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