Cobar Shire Council

Cobar’s first ever Grey Mardi Gras proved to be a huge success with locals and visitors of all ages getting into the retro spirit. Cobar Preschool (pictured above) was one of many local groups to take part in Saturday’s parade, while Friday’s dance lessons proved popular before the sold-out dinner […]

Expanded medical centre officially opened by Coulton

April 10, 2019 tcwadmin

Patients in Cobar and the wider district will feel the benefits of improved healthcare facilities, with the official opening yesterday of the newly upgraded Cobar Primary Health Care Centre. Member for Parkes Mark Coulton said he was pleased to have helped deliver a $200,000 Federal Government grant to the NSW […]

Getting our groove on for Grey Mardi Gras

April 10, 2019 tcwadmin

Local resident May Higgins (seated at centre) has lived through Cobar in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s and has watched four more generations of her extended family grow up here. May and her family are all excited about Cobar’s inaugural Grey Mardi Gras event this weekend and dug out their […]

Land Purchase sets the path for new industrial estate

April 3, 2019 tcwadmin

Cobar Shire Council has recently procured the Cobar Grain Receival land on the Bourke Road for a proposed new Industrial Estate. Council’s general manager Peter Vlatko said Council felt that a new industrial area would have tremendous economic benefits to the town, now and into the future. “Council is working […]

Time is running out to get tickets for Grey Mardi Gras events

April 3, 2019 tcwadmin

Gee, time sure does fly when you’re having fun! It was only last July that our Federal Member Mark Coulton was in town to announce Cobar’s Grey Mardi Gras would get a $37,500 grant to help make the event happen. And now that we’re just over a week away from […]

Park improvements take shape

March 27, 2019 tcwadmin

Old presbytery to be demolished after falling into disrepair

March 27, 2019 tcwadmin

The old Catholic Presbytery building in Prince Street is set to be demolished. According to the Cobar Catholic Church’s centenary book the building was built along with the new Catholic school in 1965, and was the former home of Catholic parish priests, The presbytery has been vacant for the past […]