by Darren Cheeseman, Member for Corangamite
The economic recession has been casting a long shadow over the Colac Otways region for a while now. Today, the financial stormwaters that started with a lack of proper regulation and big business greed in the American “low-end” housing market threatens to swamp our local house-building and [...]

A Colac-based transport company has sold all of its logging trucks to focus on freight. Wettenhalls has sold its 11 logging trucks to Colac’s Clearwater Logging. Clearwater Logging owners Mick and Ro Fenn said buying the trucks was a family decision. “They approached us before [...]

by Tony Mahoney
“Oh no,” was all I said as I realised my quad bike was rearing up. In a split second, heading up a hill, the bike had tipped back over me. My reaction was to the hold off the 250kg machine with my legs – a [...]

The Colac Herald asked people what their favourite summer activity was.

“Playing sport is good during the summer, and I like going to the beach.” Lachy Boyd, [...]

by Ann McDowell
The theft of farm machinery causes huge personal and financial losses for farmers. Tractors, ploughs, headers, augers, generators, welders, motor bikes and quad runners are attractive targets for thieves. The theft of machinery parts, such as header lights, batteries, and radios from tractors, is also a problem for many farmers.The costs are high [...]

by Karen Patterson
Drawing is something we all do as kids with great confidence but curiously few of us keep it up, possibly due to a complete lack of belief in our own ability.Melbourne-based children’s book illustrator Kevin Burgemeestre is convinced that everybody can draw and plans to teach exactly that at two Colac Otway Performing [...]

by Karen Patterson
Big Sister Little Brother is a funny, fast-paced and heart-warming piece of theatre designed for primary school students that explores the dynamics in sibling relationships.This slapstick comedy, based on the classic tale of the Emperor’s New Clothes is coming to COPACC on Thursday, October 30, at 1:30pm and 6pm.Big Sister Little Brother invites [...]

Problems continue to afflict a trouble-stricken Colac railway crossing.For the third month in a row the Queen Street crossing’s warning system has failed to work properly, causing problems for motorists.The target of vandals who damaged electronics in July and the cause of a traffic jam when the boomgates became stuck in August, the crossing this [...]

When Jill Madden agreed to let her son and his friends decorate her car for weekend grand finals in Colac she got a little more than she bargained for.Mrs Madden said a friend of her son Daniel came up with the idea of painting her Mitsubishi Magna in honour of the South Colac under-14 football [...]

by Karen Patterson
Michelle Fornasier may well be living the role of stressed out yummy mummy when she performs as one of three Bombshells in Colac on Sunday night.She’s about to undertake her first tour across Australia with her five-year-old son in tow, and isn’t quite sure how it’s all going to work.Michelle’s roles are comic [...]