Bushies and townies’ Heath, Nardine and Addison Cull, along with Shae Martin, enjoyed the Drought Breaker community party at the Cobar Memorial Swimming Pool on Friday afternoon. The party featured entertainment, water slides and inflatables fun, gourmet hamburgers and a lolly bar, face painting and giveaways. The free community event was coordinated by Cobar Shire Council with help from the Royal Flying Doctor Service and GIVIT and was funded under the Commonwealth Government Drought Assistance program.
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Squalleyball gets off to a good start
The new Squalleyball competition got off to a good start at the youth centre last Thursday night with two very close games played. Sweet Rally, who’s had an injection of some new players this competition, finished with a narrow 3-2 win over newcomers, Mixed Up. Sweet Rally convincingly won the […]
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Yabbies win blue ribbon event at Nationals
The Cobar Yabbies Senior Men’s Swimming Club relay team won the blue ribbon event at this year’s National AIF Swimming Carnival at Noble Park in Melbourne on Saturday. Matt Harland, Murray Harland, Cameron van Breugel, Ben Plush, Stuart Small and Owen Small put in an impressive performance to win the […]
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‘Intense’ drought declared for Cobar
The Cobar area has now been declared as being in ‘intense drought’ according to the NSW Department of Primary Industries latest seasonal report. With limited rainfall recorded last month, 100 per cent of the state has been drought declared with 15 per cent of it now in ‘intense drought’. And […]