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Newey nearly dry after months without significant rainfall
The Newey and Old Res water storage areas are almost dry after months of hot weather and a lack of significant rainfall in Cobar. Cobar has recorded 139mm of rain since September last year, which is 36.4mm below the long term average. After a dry winter, September had 4mm of […]
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Parathlete takes the first steps towards her Olympic dream
Having a goal of competing at the Olympics has helped local woman Alex Eves to get through her rehabilitation following a serious car accident two years ago. Alex is now one step closer to her dream after having finished 4th in her 100 metres sprint at the NSW Open and […]
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Roosters move to Castlereagh competition
The Cobar Roosters will join the Castlereagh Rugby League competition in 2018. Some lengthy discussion on the matter took place at a general meeting of the Castlereagh clubs at Gilgandra on Sunday to hear Cobar’s application. This wasn’t the first time the Roosters had applied to enter the Christie and […]
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Foundation members still active in VIEW after 35 years
The Cobar VIEW Club will celebrate its 35th birthday this week with a number of its founding members still actively involved in the club. One of those founding members, Kate Winders, was present at the inaugural February 15, 1983 meeting which was held at the Cobar Shire Council chambers. “VIEW […]
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Yabbies retain their 10 Man title
The Cobar Yabbies Senior Men’s Swimming Club took a quality contingent of swimmers to the annual Australian Infantry Forces (AIF) Western Districts Swimming Carnival on the weekend and returned with plenty of silverware. Hosted this year by Dubbo, the Cobar team came home with four major trophies including the 10 […]
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Rotary continue to collect cans for cash
The Rotary Club of Cobar is continuing to collect aluminium cans to raise funds for community projects. Despite the recent introduction of the Return and Earn NSW container deposit scheme, Cobar Rotarian Gordon Hill believes Cobar residents will continue to support the Rotary Club by delivering their aluminum cans in the […]
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Construction close for Cobar’s new MPS
Health Infrastructure is hoping the construction of Cobar’s new health facility will commence soon. In an update from Health Infrastructure released last week, it advised the detailed planning and design stages had now been completed and they were set to start on the delivery stage of the project. The Development […]
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Work ready to go on motel expansion
Plans for the expansion of the Copper City Motel have stalled for the past six months however motel owner Scott Smith is hoping work will commence within the next week. Mr Smith said the delay was pretty much his own fault as he’d underestimated the scale of work involved in […]
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Former St John’s student heads back to where it all began
After graduating Year 6 at St John’s School in 2003, it’s come as a bit of a surprise to Jada Parisi that she’s back there 15 years later working as a teacher. Teaching wasn’t the profession Jada chose to pursue after finishing her HSC. She started out studying and working […]