Cobar Swimming Club sent a team of six junior swimmers to the Macquarie Yabbies Swimming Carnival in Narromine on Sunday. All excelled with a number of new personal best times recorded. Isabelle Gillette dropped a massive 21.87 seconds off her previous best 100m backstroke time and Alora Deppeler shaved 4.28 […]
There’s been a change of plans for this year’s local Australia Day celebrations with Cobar Shire Council announcing last week that charity worker Katryna Robinson is to be our new Australia Day ambassador. Council’s Tourism Manager Demi Smith said our previously announced Australia Day ambassador, Sober in the the Country […]
The Cobar Railway Station underwent a bit of a “facelift” just before Christmas with a construction crew carrying out a platform refurbishment. John Holland Rail’s Supervisor of Corridor and Civil Works for the Country Regional Network, David Haulser (a former Cobar resident), was in charge of the project on behalf […]
While many parts of eastern Australia were hammered by heavy falls of rain causing flash flooding this past week, Cobar has been lucky to record steady rain with more than 16mm falling over the past few days. In town, the Bureau of Meteorology recorded 0.4mm in their rain gauge on […]
The Lilliane Brady Village (LBV) aged care facility has this week been shut down to visitors in response to the increasing number of COVID-19 cases being reported in NSW. The Australian Government Department of Health issued a directive on Monday to all NSW residential aged care facilities that they were […]
Cobar Weekly’s 2020 Christmas Cheer competition, sponsored by Peak Gold Mines and Cobar Powerhouse, was expertly judged by the Cobar Girl Guides, Lilliane Brady Village residents and Cobar Weekly staff with five winners selected. Pictured above is Peak Gold Mines representative Laura Barnes with top scorer Robyn Floyd, whose display […]
Nymagee claimed the Paula Potter Cup cricket trophy after a two wicket win over Tottenham on Saturday. Tottenham finished with 9/124 from their 20 overs while Nymagee chased them down to finish with 8/127 in 19.3 overs. Matt Bolam was named Man of the Match finishing with fantastic bowling figures […]
The Cobar Weekly has this week sadly farewelled long time staff member Tahnee Tomek after almost 14 years of service. Tahnee came to The Weekly from the Narromine News as a young cadet journalist in April 2006. She worked her way up to Sub editor, and has at times capably […]
The Junior Touch grand finals were played in trying conditions on Thursday afternoon, however, the kids didn’t seem to notice the heat while playing. Both games attracted a large amount of spectators to Ward Oval in what was reminiscent of Cobar’s touch football former glory days. In the senior grand […]
Cobar Primary Health Care Centre staff Mehakdeep Kaur (left) and Sandy Negfeldt (far right) with their art competition winners Thelma Wade (3rd place), Anita Neate (2nd place), Jessica Sinclair (1st place) and Liz Whiteman (4th place) on Monday. The winners each received a certificate and shared $280 worth of Cobar […]
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