Month: June 2022
Junior Roosters had plenty to crow about
Cobar Roosters Junior Rugby League fans had plenty to cheer about on Saturday at Tom Knight Memorial Oval with their Under 11s, Under 12s and Under 16s teams all recording brilliant wins over visi-tors ,South Dubbo. The Under 11s game was a try-scoring fest for the Cobar team who were […]
STEAM Kit workshops
Joshua Ho Wing and Cole Barraclough getting some help from Cobar Library staff member Jay Mitchell at last Friday’s free STEAM session where participants got to make battery powered cars. The session is the first in a series of four STEAM Kit workshops the library is holding this month with […]
Keen tourist is riding 2,500km from Adelaide to Cairns
While pushbikes are a common form of transport used all around Europe, in Australia riding a pushbike on a 2,500km journey from Adelaide to Cairns is not many people’s preferred method of transport. That however is the plan of 34 year old, Italian-born Andrea Trivellato, who passed through Cobar last […]
CHS students invited to take part in a mentoring program
Cobar High School (CHS) students had the opportunity last Wednesday to take part in a mentoring program that aims to give Indigenous high school students the skills and confidence to finish school and transi-tion into university, further education or employment. AIME (Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience) is a dynamic mentoring program […]
Former NRL player/professional boxer talks about suicide
Former National Rugby League player and champion professional boxer, Joe Wil-liams, was in Cobar last week to deliver suicide prevention and wellbeing education workshops. Joe played for South Sydney Rabbit-ohs, Penrith Panthers and Canterbury Bull-dogs before switching to professional boxing in 2009 where he won two WBF World Jnr Welterweight […]
Council cops criticism after fig trees were trimmed
Cobar Shire Council copped a lot of criti-cism last week after a number of trees, in-cluding our ancient Morton Bay Fig trees in the CBD, were given a trim and others were cut down. A number of disgruntled residents took to social media to express their displeasure at what they […]
After 141 years, Cobar Masons hold their final function
After being part of the Cobar community for the past 141 years, the Cobar Masons held their final function in Cobar on Satur-day night. For many years the Freemasonry as an or-ganisation world-wide was shrouded in secrets and mystery but a few years ago, all that start-ed to change and […]