A new look Cobar High School (CHS) cricket side went up against their arch-nemesis, Bourke High School, last week at Ward Oval. Bourke won the toss and sent Cobar into bat and by the 11th over Cobar were in cruise control at 2/52 with their captain Ben Howson (8) and […]
Cobar Shire Councillors efficiently moved through a lengthy agenda at their February Ordinary Meeting last Thursday. A number of agenda items had previously been workshopped by councillors with many only requiring “a tick and flick” at the meeting. Cr Janine Lea-Barrett praised an “in depth” report submitted to the meeting […]
Drought affected families in the Cobar district once again have access to a Rural Drought Support Worker following the recent appointment of Grace Murray in Bourke. Ms Murray was appointed under the NSW Department of Primary Industries (DPI) Rural Resilience Program to support farming communities across the Far West. DPI’s […]
The cooler weather on Sunday morning has helped Cobar Amateur Pistol Club shooters to perform at their best with six handicaps broken last week. Under the guidance of range officer Todd Manns, 12 shooters competed on Sunday morning at the range. Geoff Clayton, Katrina Francisco, Agnieszka Wiklendt, Helen Spencer, Jessie […]
Nymagee has finished as the minor premiers of the 40 Overs Senior Cricket competition after defeating Empire by five wickets on Saturday at Nymagee. Their win also saw them claim the Bert Oldfield Cup and a seat in the grand final. Once again, this season Nymagee lost the toss out […]
The Cobar Bowling & Golf Club held their annual Sportsman’s Dinner on Friday night with representatives of six sporting clubs in attendance. The men’s and ladies bowlers, men’s and ladies golfers as well as the senior cricket and the Cobar Yabbies Senior Men’s Swimming Club presented reports to the dinner. […]
There’s plenty of success stories coming out of the TAFE NSW Vocational Preparation Automotive course currently being run at the Cobar TAFE campus. Four Cobar High School (CHS) students who commenced their Certificate II in Vocational Preparation (Automotive) course last year have since gained mechanical apprenticeships. Automotive TAFE teacher Jamie […]
The Cobar community has this past week farewelled Sr Trish Vagg who is returning to Ballarat following her retirement. A Sisters of Mercy nun, Sr Trish came to serve the St Lawrence O’Toole Catholic parish in Cobar 11 years ago. In addition to her church duties (and in the absence […]
At the recent February meeting of the Country Women’s Association (CWA) branch members were advised of two donations the group had received for their Drought Appeal in the Cobar district. One donation was from Robert Khan, Director of Khan’s SUPA IGA Supermarket with the cheque presented to president Colleen Boucher […]
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