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StormCo gang brings some holiday fun
The StormCo students and their supervisors from the Avondale School are back in Cobar this week to put smiles on the faces of Cobar residents, young and old. It’s the 30th year of the school providing their StormCo community service to NSW. This week they are running their traditional school […]
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Gold star for the Kubby House team
It was all smiles last week at the Kubby House Child Care Centre after the centre and staff were given a high assessment rat-ing by the Department of Education. Kubby House underwent an Assessment and Rating (A&R) process at the beginning of the month and received a ‘Meeting NQS’ (National […]
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Council shows off awards
Cobar Shire Council general manager Peter Vlatko, mayor Peter Abbott and projects manager Carly Hunter with museum refurbishment architect Ashley Dunn (from Dunn and Hillam Architects) were proud to show off their National Trust (NSW) Heritage Awards they recently won for the museum upgrade project. Dunn and Hillam’s work on […]
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History making trip passes through Cobar
Cobar residents got to witness the largest haulage of a marine vessel ever undertaken in the Southern Hemisphere last Thursday when the Pride of the Murray passed through town. The 100 tonne, 100 year old paddlesteamer was making an epic 1,750km journey from Echuca in Victoria on its way to […]
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Cobar Rotary wins environmental award
The Rotary Club of Cobar, with a bit of help from the Cobar Girl Guides, has won an environmental award for their container recycling program. The Cobar club was recently announced as the winner of the Rotary District 9670 Preserve Planet Earth Award for the best environmental program in the […]
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Lots of high quality entries for this year’s Cobar Show
Pictured above: The line up of contestants in this year’s AgShows NSW Young Woman Competition at the Cobar Show on Friday night with organiser Louise McKervey and Scott Barrett MLC. Lexi Traynor was named the Young Woman of Cobar Show, Indy Negfeldt was the Teen winner (with Sarah Nicholson the […]
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National Service Medals for Far West Team
NSW Rural Fire Service Deputy Commissioner, Peter McKechnie (seated at centre) was in Cobar last Thursday to present National Service Medals to members of the Far West team in recognition of their work during 2019/2020 catastrophic fire season. The recipients (standing at rear) were: Greg Martin District Officer, Inspector Craig […]
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Long held debutante tradition continues
The Cobar Services Club’s auditorium was completely transformed for this year’s Debutante Ball. Continuing the tradition that dates back many years in Cobar, a group of nine ladies (and their partners) made their ‘debut into society’ on Saturday night. Pictured at back from left are: Joey Neale, Laine Ellicott, Sebastian […]
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Cobar’s tourism trade is booming
Cobar’s tourism trade is booming with the Cobar Visitor Information Centre (VIC) reporting already more than 2,000 visitors have called in this month. Cobar Shire Council’s tourism manager Demi Smith said since they re-opened in December on average they’ve had about 100 visitors each day to the VIC and museum […]