Former Pomborneit runner Adam Coote has collected almost $5000 worth of prizes after winning one of Victoria’s most prestigious 400-metre races. Coote won Bendigo International Gift’s feature event, the 400-metre Black Opal Classic, on Sunday. Running off a 31-metre handicap and racing against Beijing Olympian Sean Wroe, Coote recorded [...]

It was a case of fourth-time lucky for Colac’s Victorian lawn bowls representative Rebecca McMahon. McMahon won Colac Sportsmen’s Club’s Sports Star of 2009 award at the club’s monthly meeting on Wednesday night. The talented Victorian skipper won the award after being a sports [...]

Former Apollo Bay shooter Robert Howell has come agonisingly close to winning two international shooting gold medals. Howell and team-mate Warren Potent won an international silver medal at the eighth Commonwealth Shooting Federation Championships in New Delhi, India. Howell and Potent shot a combined [...]

RELAY ENTERTAINMENT: Line dancers provided entertainment for Colac Otway Relay for Life participants.
IMPRESSED: Colac Otway Relay for Life chairwoman Eunice Gill was happy with the teams’ final fundraising total of $40,642.

HANGING OUT: Colac West Primary School relay team members Keisha Smith, left, and [...]

A motorcyclist died yesterday when his motorcycle and a four-wheel drive towing a caravan collided on a Colac district road. The man died in the same week police caught one rider travelling at 169kmh and another at 153kmh. A Geelong man, 34, died [...]

Member for Polwarth Terry Mulder fears students’ safety is at risk at dilapidated Apollo Bay P-12 College. Mr Mulder has called for the State Government to perform a safety audit on the rotting school. Mr Mulder wrote to Education Minister Bronwyn Pike after he [...]

New owner Geraldine Tucker says purchasing Colac hair salon Cahill Clips was an opportunity she could not miss. Mrs Tucker has lived in Colac for five years with her husband Bryce and can think of no better career than hairdressing. “Hairdressing is my passion, [...]

CLOSE SHAVE: Cobden dairy farmer David Weel uses the clippers on a cow before judging at the 75th Heytesbury Show at Simpson Recreation Reserve on Saturday.

WOOLLY: Like the sheep he came to see, Princetown’s Louie Janssen was warm and cosy during the weekend’s Heytesbury Show.

PEDAL: Cooriemungle’s Grady Rooke, 12, and Cody Hibberd, [...]

Colac Braves baseballers have started preparing for their Geelong baseball title defence. More than 10 Braves players have started training for the 2010 season. President Dave Dickson said he hoped another four or five players would join the Braves this season to bolster their [...]

Timboon strawberry growers Alan and Joy Kerr are enjoying a bumper crop and an increase in international visitors to their berry farm. The Kerrs have operated their berry farm Berry World  for 41 years. “We’ve been going quite well this season. It’s been a [...]