Local resident May Higgins (seated at centre) has lived through Cobar in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s and has watched four more generations of her extended family grow up here. May and her family are all excited about Cobar’s inaugural Grey Mardi Gras event this weekend and dug out their […]
Cobar’s new health service project is really starting to take shape and is on track to be completed by next year. A Health Infrastructure spokesperson reports that roof sheeting has been carried out to three quarters of the new Cobar Health Service building, and work has also commenced on running […]
Roy Butler, a vegetarian cattle farmer from Mendooran, is set to take on the politicians in Sydney after winning the seat of Barwon in the NSW State Election on Saturday. From the completed initial count, it was the Shooters, Fishers and Farmers (SFF) candidate that Cobar voters put their faith […]
Cobar Mobile Children’s Services (CMCS) will once again be able to offer their services to bush kids aged between four and 12 years old. A donation of $8,000 this week from the Country Women’s Association (CWA) Cobar branch to CMCS, who recently lost some of their funding, will mean they […]
The Cobar Show Society has made the difficult decision to cancel this year’s Cobar Show following discussions at an extraordinary meeting on Sunday. Cobar Show Society secretary Heather Christie said the cancellation of the Cobar Show comes off the back of the recent announcement of the cancellation of the 2019 […]
With no end in sight to one of the worst droughts on record Cobar’s three biggest employers, CSA, Endeavor and the Peak mines, are all actively working to conserve water to ensure their operations continue. The mines have been given assurances that their allocations will remain as is until July. […]
As the Judge’s Choice winners, the Pumpettes were presented with the Cobar Netball Association’s Lip Sync trophy at their fundraiser at the Cobar Bowling & Golf Club on Saturday night. The event raised almost $8,000 to help with the construction of new netball courts. The Pumpettes girls were popular with […]
A storm which dumped nearly an inch of rain on Cobar’s CBD in around an hour has helped provide some temporary relief from the ongoing drought. While the Cobar Meteorological Office on Louth Road officially measured 13mm of rain from Thursday’s storm, there was 20mm recorded by the Cobar Airport […]
Amelia Cohen and Aiden Gilbert began ‘big school’ today with the pair heading off for their first day in Kinder at Cobar Public School. Both were excited (and a bit nervous) about heading off to school however a chat with school principal Jonathan Harvey soon had them smiling for our […]
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