2023

Passing on a traditional family skill

When your surname literally translates to papermaker (or more correctly paper mill), local library staff member, Natalia Papierniak (who is of Polish origin) was well qualified to lead Cobar Shire Council’s Book Binding workshop on Sunday. The Book Binding workshop at the Cobar Youth & Community Centre on Sunday was […]

2023

Bantams bow out of the competition

The Cobar Roosters Under 18s side have bowed out of the Christie & Hood Castlereagh Rugby League  Youth League competition after they were narrowly beaten by Binnaway in their semi final match at Binnaway on Sunday. The match was close from start to finish with Binnaway eventually finishing as 30-26 […]

2023

Championship games draw a crowd

Two Championship Bowls Singles games drew quite a crowd of spectators to the Golfie greens on Saturday.  Tony Polack and Glenn ‘Kiwi’ Ratcliffe’s game started out in favour of Kiwi until Polly’s consistency finding grass and weight proved to be too good for Kiwi and Polly finished as the +12 […]

2023

Small set back for Iron Ringer build

The Cobar Iron Ringer committee has suffered a small setback in their efforts to build an Iron Ringer monument. Iron Ringer committee chair John Collins said the committee was unsuccessful in their application to obtain grant funding from the NSW Government’s 2022/23 Arts & Cultural Funding Program to help with […]

2023

Divas win the match of the round

Cobar Senior Netball’s top two teams met on Sunday in Round 7 of the winter competition with Divas eventually finishing as 54-41 winners over Pumpettes. It was a great game with the scores even at the end of the first quarter, two points was the difference at half time, and […]

2023

CSA Mine’s new owners take over

MAC CEO outlines future plans for the CSA Mine The sale of Cobar’s CSA Mine from Glencore to Metals Acquisition Corp (MAC) was finalised on Friday with the mine welcoming its 5th owner in 58 years of operation. Glencore, who has owned the mine since 1999, received USD$775 million in […]