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Soccer star shares his skills with local players
Members of the Cobar Junior Soccer Club got to attend training sessions with ex-Socceroo Gerry Gomez, an experienced coach and football educator, on Friday af-ternoon and Saturday morning in Cobar. Gomez headed up the IM Team who con-ducted the sessions which catered for players of all levels and were a […]
Roosterettes blow away the Bombshells with a 32-14 win
The Cobar Roosterettes blew away the Binnaway Bombshells on Saturday at Tom Knight Memorial Oval winning their Cas-tlereagh League Tag match, 32-14. Cobar’s playmaker Brianna Watson was a standout in the Round 13 match opening the scoring for the Roosterettes early. Watson found a gap in the Binnaway de-fence seven […]
Visitor gets his name on Beryl Jones Memorial trophy
The Cobar Clay Target Club recently held their annual Beryl Jones Memorial Shoot with visitor Mark Kolstad getting his name on the trophy. There was a field of 27 shooters for this year’s event which preceded the State Night Point Score Championship. Local shooters and visitors contested both events. Skeet […]
2021/2022 Little Athletics NSW Award Dinner
Local Barry Knight (at left) was a finalist for Volunteer of the Year at the 2021/2022 Little Athletics NSW Awards dinner held at Ettalong on Saturday night. And while he didn’t win, Barry reckons he may have “conned” retired Australian sprinter, Melinda Gainsford-Taylor (also pictured above with Barry’s son Troy, […]
Cobar kids go Globetrotting
The Cobar Youth Council recently took a group of 18 local youth ranging in age from 12-17 on a three day excursion to Bendigo to see a Harlem Globetrotters basketball game, which combines athleticism, theatre and comedy in their style of play. The group also got to experience the Bendigo […]
COOSH excursion to museum
As part of their school holidays activities, the kids and their supervisors at COOSH (Cobar Out of School Hours) service paid a visit to the Cobar Museum last Thursday. The kids took part in a scavenger hunt finding pictures of people and objects both inside the museum and also in […]
World-renowned pianist visits the Cobar Sound Chapel
Roman Rudnytsky’s recent visit to Cobar, hosted by the Cobar Arts Council, took him on a tourist trail around town. Roman visited Fort Bourke Hill Lookout for a closer look into the depths of the open cut mine taking this in with one of our rich burnt orange sunsets as […]
Skateboarders hit the deck
Nixen Osborne instructing Harlow Chaplain and Declan Sharpe at last week’s Totem Skateboarding school which was provided by the Cobar Shire Youth Council as a free activity during the school holidays. The focus of the beginners session was learning to get your balance while kids at the intermediate sessions learnt […]
New major infrastructure project now up and running at CSA
CSA Mine’s newly installed ventilation fans, which can deliver twice the airflow of their predecessors, have been designed with the future in mind as the mine plans to go deeper in the coming years. CSA’s Projects Manager Tom Mackay ad-vised the set of four new primary ventilation fans came into […]