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  • School garden offers food and sustainability

    Beeac Primary School students and staff have planted the seed of sustainability within their growing garden.

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  • Lake Colac energises artists

    If you frequent the Lake Colac foreshore, chances are you may have spotted this group painting.

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  • Beacon over ‘bureaucracy’

    An Apollo Bay resident says he hopes “bureaucracy” doesn’t stand in the way of the town reinstating a vital piece of its maritime history.

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  • Skenes Creek dirt waits for asbestos screening

    A potentially contaminated colossal dirt mound in Skenes Creek will be screened for asbestos in the coming weeks, despite the pile sitting on the nature strip of a Great Ocean Road property for almost six months.

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  • Public interest in Colac toilets

    Toilets in Memorial Square have been a topic of discussion at the latest Colac Otway Shire Council meeting, with people wondering when the new facilities will be complete and why items are broken in the current facilities.

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  • Council to woo electric blue?

    Climate Action Team’s Jeff Cooke says now is the time for Colac Otway Shire Council to “bite the bullet” and apply for funding to electrify its largest gas consumer Bluewater Leisure Centre.

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  • Man fined over mean texts to mother

    A 43-year-old man who verbally abused his 77-year-old mother over text has walked from court without a conviction but must pay a $500 fine.

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  • Colac store sale attracts crowd

    Livestock agent Matt Nelson said Friday’s store cattle sale at the Colac Saleyards saw about 350 head go under the hammer.

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