Cressy

  • Drought conditions impact crops

    The driest autumn and winter on record for parts of the Colac region has impacted canola crops, with some blooming early, others behind schedule, and some expected to fail.

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  • ANZAC Day 2024

    From Cressy to Colac, through to Apollo Bay, the Colac Herald team has captured the ANZAC Day services and commemorations of this year. 

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  • Cost rise puts road closure on hold

    Colac Otway Shire Council will wait another month to decide what to do about a road closure in Cressy’s Hall Street, after an unexpected $45,000 increase in the project’s budget.

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  • Long wait for response and no date for closure

    Cressy’s David and Diane Flitton are disappointed with how long it is taking Colac Otway Shire Council to close a road that goes directly through their property.

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  • Tim brings Cressy tower to life

    Northeast Victoria’s Tim Bowtell has finished painting a mural on the 60-foot Cressy Water Tower in less than three weeks.

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  • Cressy mural makes inroads

    After almost 12 years in the making, work has finally begun on a mural on Cressy’s 60-foot water tower.

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  • Ballarat road labelled ‘beyond dangerous’

    Colac district motorists have labelled the Colac-Ballarat Road as “disgusting”, “scary”, “beyond dangerous” and “an accident waiting to happen”.

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  • Cressy railway’s fascinating story

    Local author and historian Norman Houghton has produced a new book about a historic railway line that linked the northern parts of the Colac Otway Shire.

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