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Council presents a conservative budget for coming year

Cobar Shire Council was pleased to be able to present a “good” budget to ratepayers at public meeting last Wednesday night. Council’s director of corporate and community services, Kym Miller, said he’s worked out a conservative budget for 2019/2020 that has “very little risk and significant opportunities”. “There’s no reduction […]

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Decades of local service

Vinnies volunteers Jean Manns (who has given over 25 years service), Ann Dunn (11 years) and Jan Johnson (20+ years) have been recognised by Vinnies for their ‘long service’ to the charitable organisation. Other long serving volunteers (not pictured) to have received long service badges include: Dawn Griffiths and Bev […]

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Major works to bring our museum into this century

With tourism a focus of the NSW Government’s funding supplied to Joint Organisations, the Great Cobar Heritage Centre will benefit from a $1.43million upgrade.  Museum staff have described the funding as an “exciting opportunity” to update some of the current displays, some of which are over 30 years old. Many […]

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Award recognises a rare talent in local council engineer

Cobar Shire Council’s Roads Works Manager Adrienne Pierini has been honoured with a Minister’s Award for Women in Local Government. Ms Pierini was announced as the winner of the Women in a Non-Traditional Role—Rural or Regional Council category last week by Local Government Minister Shelley Hancock. The Minister handed out […]