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Month: November 2017
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Hot competition for Golfie’s ladies President’s Day bowls
Cobar Bowling & Golf Club Ladies Bowls president Margaret Good welcomed 18 bowlers to the greens on Sunday for the annual Ladies President’s Day tournament. Three games were played in a triples format with the team of Barbara Barklimore, Marlene Wynd and Kyle Roberts finishing as the overall winners. The […]
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Favourable feedback from festival
Apart from the weather, it seems that on the whole, this year’s Festival of the Miner’s Ghost (FOMG) was once again a success. The FOMG committee, headed up by Cobar Shire Council’s projects officer Miranda Riley, held a wrap up meeting on Thursday at the council chambers. Mrs Riley reports […]
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Locals mark Remembrance Day as the promise of peace
Cobar residents came together just before 11am on Saturday in Drummond Park to mark the 11th hour, of the 11th day of the 11th month, the day when the guns fell silent on the Western Front in World War I in 1918. Cobar RSL Sub Branch president Ben Hewlett led […]
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Plenty of local interest shown for the “Sport of Kings”
There’s plenty of interest from locals to see the ‘Sport of Kings’ (horse-racing) continue in Cobar with 16 people turning out for the Cobar Miners Race Club annual general meeting on Sunday morning. Jarrod Marsden was returned as club president for his third term and Vince Sikora was re-elected for […]
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Confronting domestic violence figures revealed at march
In June 2016 Cobar had the worst domestic violence (DV) repeat rate in the region at 33.8 per cent. However thanks to a new NSW Police pilot program in the Darling River Local Area Command (LAC), that figure has now dropped. The terrible statistic was revealed by Detective Inspector Rodney […]
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Blues go out with a whimper
It’s not what anyone wanted to see, but it seems after a long and illustrious 21 years of competition, the Cobar Blues Football & Netball Club will be going out with a whimper. The club held its annual general meeting on Monday afternoon at the Cobar Bowling & Golf Club […]
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Local victim of domestic violence vows to continue to fight
Local woman Wendy Robinson has vowed to continue to advocate for the prevention of domestic violence and changes to the law following a domestic violence incident in December 2014 in which both her parents were killed by her brother. Wendy was a guest speaker at Cobar’s Reclaim the Night awareness […]
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High flying Kamikaze Pilots
Kamikaze Pilots had the mindset and the skills to win the Squalleyball grand final last Thursday night at the youth centre. It was however their opposition, BnB, who went into the grand final match as the favourites having not been beaten all season, but Kamikaze Pilots played their best game […]
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