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Perfect purple potato produces positive plan
A COLAC district potato farmer hopes eight years of developing purple potato varieties will pay off in autumn next year.
Redwood plantings restore farm’s soil
A COLAC district farmer is using the history of an Otways attraction in new ways to benefit farms.
Hope for cape koalas amid health project
STATE GOVERNMENT workers have euthanised 47 koalas and released another 280 back into the forest as part of an initiative to manage koalas at Cape Otway.
Cancer awareness fundraiser in honour of friend
FRIENDS and family have will gather next month to celebrate the life of a Colac woman and raise awareness of the disease that took her life.
Variety on show at annual Birregurra Festival
FOOD lovers won’t be disappointed at this year’s annual Birregurra Festival.
Disgraceful vandalism traps disabled man at home
A COLAC man is considering moving away from the region after vandals have damaged his car four times within four months.
Calls for minister to step in to stop Birregurra quarry
BIRREGURRA landowner Russell Young hopes the State Planning Minister will stop plans for a quarry before an application reaches a Victorian appeals tribunal in November.
Wins for Colac cake decorator
A COLAC cake maker says she was shocked to win two ribbons at this year’s Royal Melbourne Show.