News

  • Council to consider petition, contracts and more

    A petition, lease, contracts, environmental strategies and finances are just some of the items on this month’s Colac Otway Shire Council meeting at Apollo Bay.

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  • Support to manage harvest

    As the winter crop ripens rapidly in the southern state’s grain belt, thoughts of managing the harvest are front of mind for grain growers.

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  • Coastal conversations continue

    A much-loved discussion group is back in full swing at Apollo Bay to help the coastal town’s mission of supporting Afghani families in desperate need.

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  • College community to host cancer fundraiser

    When Apollo Bay teenager Harry Arthur was diagnosed with leukemia last month, the incredible amount of support stunned his family coming to terms with the news.

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  • A life-changing diagnosis

    Getting told you have cancer is one of those sentences that changes your life.

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  • Otways home damaged during earthquake

    “The roof started collapsing in, the chimney was about to fall off, windows had been rattled out, literally the whole window had been rattled out of the building.”
    SES Otway and Colac unit controller Steve Tevelein says a Ferguson home copped the brunt of this morning’s earthquake, “absolutely” one of the biggest the region has witnessed.

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  • Colac community turns pink

    Colac has been pinking up to raise money and awareness for breast cancer.

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  • Call for consultative committee to meet

    A Lake Colac advocate says the neglected Lake Colac Consultative committee should have been consulted before the Colac Otway Shire Council decided to cancel a “potentially fantastic” club-to-club swim across the lake.

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