The new Girl Guides Hall in Maidens Avenue was officially opened on Saturday morning by deputy mayor Peter Abbott. Cr Abbott was very impressed with the complete renovation of the former Council Ward Oval gatekeepers cottage and said he believed the Guides would be very happy in their new home. […]
Three Cobar residents, one of whom has been living in Cobar for almost 50 years, were naturalised as part of yesterday’s Australia Day celebrations. Elaine Jermyn, who is Scottish born, came to Australia with her family when she was 17. (Her father came out to sink the first shaft at […]
Approximately 50 emergency services staff and support personnel worked to secure the site of a large chemical spill 55km east of Cobar on the Barrier Highway last Thursday which had the potential for very serious consequences. The highway was closed in both directions for almost 17 hours after 26 tonnes […]
The Australia Day awards were held yesterday at the Cobar Memorial Swimming Pool with this year’s Australia Day ambassador and charity worker Katryna Robinson helping to hand out the awards. The Rotary Club of Cobar was recognised with the Bossie Mitchell Service to the Community Australia Day award for their […]
The Kubby House child care centre has gotten off to a positive start this year with a number of new staff coming on board under the direction of early childhood teacher, Tracey Bowman. Mrs Bowman, who joined the Kubby House staff at the end of last year on a casual […]
The Cobar Catholic community came together on Sunday to farewell parish priest Fr Sabbas Assenga who is moving on to Narromine. Originally from Africa, Fr Sabbas came to Cobar “for a short time” at the end of 2016. He said he was made to feel very welcome and has enjoyed […]
The Cobar Cemetery is looking a picture thanks to plenty of rain in the past few months and a hell of a lot of work over the past 16 years by caretaker, Bruce Shuttle. Bruce, a former truck driver and butcher, started helping out 16 years ago as part of […]
A project to digitally archive almost 20 years of the early copies of The Cobar Weekly has gotten underway. Over its almost 35 years of history, The Cobar Weekly staff has diligently kept a copy of every edition printed since the paper’s inception in February 1986. Staff however were concerned […]
Nine Cobar Athletics & Triathlon Squad (CATS) members have already ticked off one of their 2021 improvement goals for the season with all recording quick times at the club’s January triathlon event on Sunday. Some hard training over the past month paid off for Montana Daniel who finished as the […]
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 […]
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