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Month: January 2018
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Small field contests annual Australia Day triathlon event
Scott Brown was the winner of the Gumnuts Gifted Male prize as the first finishing male and overall winner of the Australia Day triathlon on Friday. The annual event, organised by the Cobar Athletics & Triathlon Squad (CATS), was a scratch race and consisted of a 300m swim, 10km ride […]
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New netball courts to be ready for 2019 season
Cobar netballers can expect to be playing on brand new courts at Ward Oval next season thanks to a $175,000 State Government grant. State Member for Barwon Kevin Humphries was in Cobar on Monday to hand over the grant to the Cobar Netball Association (CNA). CNA president Haylee Prince said […]
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Interest revving up in Cobar’s classic car film festival plans
Cobar is looking like the place to be this October with the Running On Empty Festival organisers getting revved up for what’s sure to be a huge event. The Cobar Weekly spoke with one of the event organisers, Ben Hewlett, last week about the festival’s plans, the growing exposure for […]
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Teenager wins a top sporting award
Hannah Carroll, Chrissy Gilligan and John Collins were the recipients of this year’s Australia Day sports awards. Teenager Hannah Carroll won the Kerrigungi award which recognises representative sporting achievements. Last year Hannah represented Cobar in a number of sports including netball and athletics. Hannah won the NSW Discus State Championship […]
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Awards recognise community service
The Cobar community came out to support the nominees of this year’s Australia Day Awards which were presented in a ceremony at the Cobar Memorial Swimming Pool on Friday. Colleen Boucher was awarded the Bossie Mitchell Services to the Community Award. She had some tough competition with 15 nominations in […]
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New spaces allow library to expand services offered
Librarian Jane Siermans is thrilled with the two new spaces at the Cobar Shire & TAFE Library which will help to extend the services the library can offer. The two new community facilities in the library’s arcade were officially opened on Thursday. The construction was made possible with a $114,681 […]
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Chemists ready to help as codeine changes come into force
From tomorrow Cobar residents, like all other Australian residents, will no longer be able to buy medication containing codeine from chemists without a prescription. The Australian Government has made changes to the law regarding the sale of medicines containing codeine. The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) unanimously agreed to the changes […]
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New water manager up for the challenges of Cobar’s system
With the current poor state of Cobar’s town water supply, Cobar Shire Council’s new water and sewerage manager Eric Poga feels he may have “jumped into the deep end” when he recently took on the role. Mr Poga told The Cobar Weekly he is however looking forward to the challenge […]