Council to take on children’s hostel Cobar Shire Councillors voted at last Thursday’s Ordinary Council Meeting to purchase the Cobar War Memorial Chil-dren’s Hostel. The hostel’s current committee invited Council to purchase the hostel for $1. The large complex on the corner of Barton and Blakey streets, which was completed […]
Emma Hoy and Caroline Wallace returned to Cobar on Friday to host a listening party at the Cobar Bowling & Golf Club as part of their Outback Outloud project. The pair, who are directors of Signal Creative, visited Cobar at the end of March along with Walgett, Brewarrina and Bourke […]
Visitors entering Cobar from the north (and locals returning to town) will be greeted with a new ‘Welcome to Cobar’ sign erected by Cobar Shire Council last week. The new sign pays homage to Cobar’s rural heritage and portrays windmills, working dogs and a crop in a field. The sign […]
Following a raft of positive feedback about the mural she painted at the Newey Reserve, local artist Seigrid Peters has been contracted by Cobar Shire Council to create more of her unique artworks to help bright-en up the CBD. Seigrid has been working over the past week creating mini murals […]
Cobar Rotarians Gordon and Therese Hill have recently been awarded the pres-tigious Paul Harris Fellow award in recog-nition of their ongoing work with the Cobar Drought Appeal. Gordon said while the drought may be “officially” broken, a good number of local landholders are still in the drought recovery phase. “Some […]
While there may have only been a small turn out of rural landholders for last week’s Rural Crime Forum in Cobar, those who did attend report they gained some valuable information. Led by Rural Crime Prevention Team officers, Acting Sergeant Graeme Campbell and Senior Constable Andrew Smith, last Wednesday night’s […]
Local producer Andrew Mosely was invited to present at the Meat & Livestock Australia (MLA) MeatUp Forum in Broken Hill last week. Andrew and his wife Megan run a mixed grazing operation at Etiwanda, 100km south of Cobar with the help of their two daughters Emily and Jess. The MLA’s […]
Staff from Fire and Rescue NSW Cobar Station 256 have been praised for their quick response to a call to help clean up a hazardous material spill on Sunday morning. On arrival at the Barrier Highway Truck Stop just west of Cobar at around 10am, crews found liquid leaking from […]
Closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras have been installed around the town over the past week including this mobile, solar-powered camera at the Newey recreation area. The new cameras have been installed to protect a number of Council’s community assets including the Cobar Library, the Council Chambers/Drummond Park and the Council depot. […]
Gail Higgins is a familiar face in our community, particularly on Wednesday mornings when she’s out delivering The Cobar Weekly . You may have spotted Gail, aka ‘The Boss’ nicknamed by her LiveBetter helpers, Myshelle Gillette, Leah Mitchell and Ashley McMurtrie, as they reckon on Wednesdays it’s Gail that “calls […]
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