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  • Diamond jubilee for Colac couple

    “You’re not marrying that girl to live with her, you’re marrying her to live for her.”

    That’s the advice Ian McMillan received the week of his wedding to his partner Lyn, and it has stuck with the Colac man through six decades of happy marriage.

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  • Colac veteran pauses to reflect

    Colac Vietnam War veteran Keith Weir will reflect on mates he lost and battles he saw as he quietly marks Anzac Day tomorrow.

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  • Youngster honours great-grandfather’s medals

    Colac’s Lucas Rodger is proof the digger legend lives on in our youngsters.

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  • MP wants school to resume

    Polwarth MP Richard Riordan has called for the State Government to open Victorian schools as soon as possible to minimise disadvantage to students.

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  • More than 200 tested for virus

    More than 360 people have been screened for COVID-19 at Colac Area Health, with more than 200 people being swabbed for coronavirus.

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  • Fuel price falls, slowly

    Colac’s petrol is the cheapest it has been in years, but local motorists are still paying substantially more than drivers in other areas of Victoria.

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  • War memories linger for Colac 99-year-old

    Colac Second World War veteran Les Trigg has spent a lifetime paying back his mates for their sacrifices on the battlefield. The 99-year-old served in the Pacific from 1942 to ’45, before returning to Australia and fulfilling the promises he made to his cobbers to never leave a man behind. ‘Trigger’ has had a distinguished […]

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  • Elective surgeries resume next week

    Elective surgeries at the state’s public and private hospitals will start to resume next week, where safe to do so, after a slowdown in the number of new coronavirus cases.

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