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Princes Highway tomahawk Creek Road intersection

  • Call to alter highway plan

    Blue Church resident Colin Carter says new safety upgrades to the intersection in front of his home are welcome, but they miss the mark.

    By Ruby MansonSeptember 4, 2019
  • New call to upgrade horror intersection

    A Colac truck driver is call-ing for safety improvements at the region’s notorious “blue church” intersection after he had two near misses in two weeks.

    By Devon McGillicuddyApril 26, 2017
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    “Dream big. Read often.” Those are the words “Dream big. Read often.”

Those are the words of wisdom from author Melissa Wray ahead of her workshop set to be held right here in Colac.

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    It’s been 4734 days since Colac’s Philip Gayla It’s been 4734 days since Colac’s Philip Gaylard was killed in a car crash and not a second goes by when the Gaylard family doesn’t think about the charismatic person that was taken from their lives in an instant.

Philip died on July 28, 2012. He was driving home to Colac when a four-wheel drive collided with him near Ballarat.

Now, the family is sharing their story as part of the @tacvictoria’s latest road safety initiative, The Hardest Share. The initiative encourages people to tell their stories of road trauma so that others don’t have to go through it.

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    Game On is taking a break this week, with no CDFNL Game On is taking a break this week, with no CDFNL and GFNL matches for the league bye. We'll be back next Monday covering all the latest sports from around the region. 

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    A new Parliamentary petition asking to reduce the A new Parliamentary petition asking to reduce the probationary driving age to 17 has received mixed reactions in Colac and district.

In a Colac Herald online poll, 135 votes or 62 per cent supported lowering the age, while 38 per cent said it should not be lowered.

Seventeen-year-old Archie Millar agreed that there were benefits to lowering the driving age.

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    “I was nominated by an angel”. When Irrewilli “I was nominated by an angel”.

When Irrewillipe’s Ian Clarke received a call from @aussiehayrunners’ Linda Widdup to tell him there was a truckload of donated hay from Queensland on its way, there were “a whole lot of emotions”.

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    Two talented Colac junior footballers have been se Two talented Colac junior footballers have been selected to attend the Geelong Falcons Futures Camp on Monday.

Milly Langdon and Astin McCrimmon were nominated by their clubs, Armstrong Creek and St Mary’s and then selected by the Falcons to attend the camp.
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