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New bar and restaurant overlooking ocean
APOLLO Bay will have about 15 new jobs on offer after civic leaders approved plans for a bar and restaurant with ocean views.
Last-minute call for rates cut
COLAC community groups have made a last-minute call for Colac Otway Shire Council to slash a proposed rate rise to three percent.
House fire might be arson
INVESTIGATORS say an arsonist could be responsible for a house fire in Colac.
Liver disease blamed for cattle deaths
AN animal health authority says a liver disease probably caused more than 30 cattle deaths on a Colac district farm.
Town preparing for 6000 riders
THE Otways community of Gellibrand River remembers the “buzz” when 8100 cyclists and their crews rode into town 10 years ago and plans to re-create the celebration have started.
Anti-fur petition goes viral
MORE than 21,000 people around the world have joined a Wye River woman’s petition calling for an online marketplace to stop selling endangered animal products.
Woman hurt in horse fall
PARAMEDICS airlifted a Colac district woman to hospital after she fell from a horse on a property south-west of Colac.
Inquiry into farm cattle deaths
THE discovery of sick and dead cattle on a Colac district farm has sparked an investigation into a possible disease outbreak.