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2023
Biz Association is making plans
Additional entertainment for this year’s Christmas Street Parade, cocktail networking events, business breakfasts and bringing back the business awards were among the many items discussed at the Cobar Business Association’s AGM last week. Held at the Services Club on Thursday, the meeting was well attended with a number of new […]
2023
Cobar’s Chad Buckman awarded Origin Energy Scholarship
Cobar’s Chad Buckman has won the 2023 Origin Energy Foundation Grant King Indigenous scholarship to help study a Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) degree at the University of NSW, Sydney. Head of the Origin Energy Foundation Michelle Zahra said the scholarship program was intended to address the under-representation of First Nations […]
2023
Pool contract won’t be tendered out
Cobar Shire Councillors have opted not to call for tenders for the management of the Cobar Memorial Swimming Pool but rather to extend the existing contract. Council’s director of finance and community services, Kym Miller proposed the extension to Councillors at last week’s Ordinary Council Meeting. Mr Miller said there […]
2023
Cobar Roosterettes make a return to the winning circle
The return of Roosterettes’ captain/coach Kayla Hasson to the field after injury bolstered the Cobar side for their Round 7 Castlereagh League Tag game against Binnaway on Saturday. Hasson’s on-field presence, along with the experience and team talk by veteran Zoë Egan (who was also back from injury) steered the […]
2023
Frasers finish in front in Foursomes
Cobar’s men golfers contested the annual Foursomes Championships over 27 holes on Saturday. The favorites, the two Fraser boys, Alec and Mark, were going to be a hard combination to beat if they played up to their ability. And they did with the boys beating their old man, Stewart Fraser, […]
2023
2023
New chef at Services Club serving traditional Chinese
The Cobar Services Club has a new chef in the kitchen with Ben Lwu opening his ‘Little Chef’ restaurant at the club last week. Ben did his two years of training at a chef school in China nearly 17 years ago before going into the family business. Since moving to […]
2023
Winning double for Roosters over Bombshells
A five try burst in the space of less than 15 minutes helped the Cobar Roosters to a 42-18 win over the Binnaway Bombshells in their Round 7 Christie & Hood Castlereagh Rugby League First Grade game on Saturday. It was the club’s second win of the day in their […]
2023
Feral pig numbers are out of control
Farmers around the state are calling for more resources to combat a huge rise in the number of feral pigs which are destroying their properties and killing their stock. The Cobar Weekly spoke with a number of landholders across the region and all report seeing dramatic increases in pig numbers. […]