Cobar High School students have gotten a timely reminder to take care of their personal well-being and give a voice to the ‘blue elephant’ in the room with representatives from youth based mental health organisation Batyr making the trip from Sydney to hold sessions last week. Batyr was specifically created […]
Despite the Kubby House Child Care Centre receiving a raft of community sup-port to help keep Cobar’s long daycare centre open for business, their situation this week is “very desperate”. The 29-place centre, which is the main provider of childcare in Cobar, has been struggling to continue to operate following […]
The Cobar Girl Guides are on track to enjoy their new digs by early next year with building works scheduled to be completed by mid-next month, with some landscaping to follow. The conversion of the Council-owned former gatekeepers’ three bedroom house on Maiden Avenue into the Guides’ future base includes […]
Cobar Shire Council’s new Director of Infrastructure Services Scott Casey started his position last week with firm ambitions to immerse himself into the local community. “Everyone I’ve spoken to says Cobar is a great place to live and has an excellent com-munity spirit,” Mr Casey said. “I very much look […]
Cobar residents will pause for Remembrance Day this morning to reflect and pay respects to the armed forces personnel who lost their lives in war. While the usual formal public flag raising ceremony isn’t happening because of COVID-19 social distancing restrictions locals will still be able to lay wreaths throughout […]
In addition to providing snake handling courses for their own Peak Gold Mines personnel last week, Aurelia Metals also held a ‘Things that Bite ‘n’ Sting’ community information session at the Cobar Bowling & Golf Club on Thursday night. Experienced herpetologist Julian Craig hosted the two and a half hour […]
Staff from the Alcohol and Drug Foundation (ADF) joined Cobar kids and parents for a barbecue in Drummond Park last Wednesday. The casual setting gave locals an opportunity to find out more about the impacts and effects of drugs and alcohol, the risks factors associated with drinking alcohol and taking […]
The Cobar Police Whiskers, Lucas Hardy, Greg McKervey, Chris Power, Tony Martin and Dwayne De Vries, are taking part in Movember, that time of the year when men put their razors away for a month to see who can grow the most impressive facial hair for the purpose of increasing […]
Former local resident Michael Warren started his role as a journalist at The Cobar Weekly on Monday. Michael did all his schooling in Cobar before heading off to Sydney in the late 1990s to study and pursue a career in journalism. He recently relocated from Cairns to take up the […]
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