Articles by Naomi Newcombe

  • Safe driving message as road toll hits 287

    Victorians are being urged to put safe driving at the top of their to-do list this festive season, as the state experiences the highest number of fatalities on its roads in more than a decade.

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  • Your opportunity to share some Christmas cheer

    It’s time to dig deep and share some much needed Christmas cheer with 73 workers who have found themselves out of work just before Christmas.

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  • End of year celebrations

    Winifred Nance Kinder kids have kept busy in the weeks leading up to Christmas.

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  • DEVASTATING JOB LOSSES: Business ‘wind-down’

    A Clearwater Logging and Transport employee says it is devastating that staff have been made redundant right before Christmas, after the logging company went into administration earlier this month owing almost $20 million.

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  • Pothole on bend causing concern

    Deans Marsh resident Juliet Beatty is warning people about a “dreadful pothole” on the Colac-Forrest Road.

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  • Zelma retires after 37 years at kinder

    Colac Herald journalist Naomi Newcombe attended Winifred Nance Kindergarten in 2005 and 2006 and this week she returned to the kinder to speak with her former teacher Zelma Taylor who is retiring after almost four decades educating Colac and district children.

    Winifred Nance Kindergarten’s Zelma Taylor will take a lifetime of memories with her when she retires from her dedicated teaching career this week after 37 years.

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  • Half-a-million items recycled

    Colac Otway residents have returned and recycled more than half a million bottles, cartons and cans through Victoria’s container deposit scheme in almost seven weeks.

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  • Council seeks three free blocks

    Colac Otway Shire Council will seek three lots from Colac’s Bruce Street subdivision free of charge, an expectation of many councillors during the original sale.

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