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  • Children lived with drugs and filth

    PILL packets, alcohol bottles, soiled mattresses, food scraps, animal faeces and broken furniture – that’s how a Colac woman has lived with her four children.

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  • Police hunt knife-wielding bandit

    POLICE are hunting a knife-wielding bandit who pretended he had broken down on the Princes Highway and tried to mug a Colac district man.

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  • Farmers show interest in rescued maremma dogs

    COLAC district’s maremma-rescue advocate Jacqueline Zakharia drove 800 kilometres on Good Friday to collect four dogs a ranger had seized.

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  • Report rejects repairs to historic statue

    VICTORIA’S heritage organisation wants to list Camperdown’s historic Robert Burns statue on its register.

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  • ‘Grab bag’ of ideas for Colac High School site

    COLAC’S former high school site could host an emergency services hub, a farmers’ market, a sports facility, affordable housing, a truck museum and a kindergarten.

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  • Killed eagle was shot, inquiry finds

    AUTHORITIES investigating the death of a wedge-tailed eagle in the Colac district say the bird died from a gunshot wound.

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  • Call to slash $25M from Colac’s water upgrade

    A STATE authority has told Barwon Water to cut a $25-million Colac water supply upgrade from its budget.

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  • Dedicated to making timeless teddy bears

    COLAC’S Denise Connor’s love for teddy bears knows no bounds, and it seems market-goers love her bears too.

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