News

  • Churches open arms to the community

    The Colac district’s churches are looking forward to welcoming the community for their various Christmas events and services.

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  • DEVASTATING JOB LOSSES: Business ‘wind-down’

    A Clearwater Logging and Transport employee says it is devastating that staff have been made redundant right before Christmas, after the logging company went into administration earlier this month owing almost $20 million.

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  • Bizarre offending but no conviction

    A 20-year-old man who pleaded guilty to stealing blow torches, a gas canister, alcohol, cooked chickens and $20,000 of items including a samurai sword from a Colac store has walked from court without a conviction.

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  • Pothole on bend causing concern

    Deans Marsh resident Juliet Beatty is warning people about a “dreadful pothole” on the Colac-Forrest Road.

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  • December weather will determine crop

    Gellibrand blueberry farmer Wayne Knight is looking forward to a good harvest and welcoming visitors when picking season starts in the coming weeks.

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  • Zelma retires after 37 years at kinder

    Colac Herald journalist Naomi Newcombe attended Winifred Nance Kindergarten in 2005 and 2006 and this week she returned to the kinder to speak with her former teacher Zelma Taylor who is retiring after almost four decades educating Colac and district children.

    Winifred Nance Kindergarten’s Zelma Taylor will take a lifetime of memories with her when she retires from her dedicated teaching career this week after 37 years.

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  • Half-a-million items recycled

    Colac Otway residents have returned and recycled more than half a million bottles, cartons and cans through Victoria’s container deposit scheme in almost seven weeks.

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  • Council seeks three free blocks

    Colac Otway Shire Council will seek three lots from Colac’s Bruce Street subdivision free of charge, an expectation of many councillors during the original sale.

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