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Month: August 2017
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Winning double for Wayne Prisk at local picnic meeting
Cobar trainer Wayne Prisk had a winning double at the Cobar Miners Race Club Picnic Race Meeting on Saturday. Vonnida (paying $1.80 as the favourite), a last start winner at Louth for the Cobar Camels Rugby Union syndicate managed by Jarrod Marsden, president of the Cobar Miners Race Club, led […]
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Motocross riders get to experience full track racing
Cobar Auto Club members have been working hard revamping the motocross track so that a full track event could be held and they hosted their first full track motocross on Sunday. In addition to a large number of local competitors, riders came from Orange, Dubbo, Gilgandra, Narromine, Guerie and Bourke […]
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Craig Jones wins a darts trifecta
Craig Jones took out the trifecta in the Cobar Darts Championships over the weekend winning the Men’s Singles and Doubles titles as well as the Mixed Doubles crown with Paige Coleman. In the Men’s Singles Jones beat Brett Miller and Jones teamed up with Brian Sylvester to win the Men’s […]
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Memorial funds
The Cobar Miners Memorial Project has missed out on funding in the current round of the Building Better Regions Fund. The successful applications of the fund were announced earlier this month with the construction of the Miners Memorial application sadly not on the list of projects to be funded. The […]
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Cobar chosen to participate in suicide prevention trial
Cobar has been chosen as one of 12 sites in Australia to participate in a National Suicide Prevention Trial. Dr Scott Fitzpatrick and Dr Donna Read from the Centre for Rural and Remote Mental Health in Orange (which is affiliated with the University of Newcastle) were in Cobar last Wednesday […]
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Peak clarifies dewatering process after resident concerns
Local resident John Stingemore has raised concerns that Peak Gold Mines (PGM) has been discharging mine water from their workings onto neighbouring Crown Land. PGM’s environment and social responsibility officer Sophie Bereyne has responded to assure Cobar residents the mine’s Spain’s Tank Dewatering Operation was operating within approved Development Consent […]
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Junior League celebrates three wins at home
The Cobar Junior Rugby League Club had plenty of reasons to celebrate the end of the 2017 season on Saturday with three of their four junior sides recording wins at home in the Dubbo & District Junior Rugby League competition. The Under 10s opened the day with a thrilling 16-10 […]