The Cobar Yabbies performed well at the Nationals AIF Swimming Carnival at Coffs Harbour on Saturday bringing home a swag of prizes including the prestigious Six Man Scratch Relay trophy. The team included Owen Small, Cameron van Bruegel, Stuart Small, Grant McDonald, Scott Toomey and Matt Harland who are pictured […]
An official opening of Murdi Paaki’s new administration offices in Bathurst Street (at the former TAFE site) was held last Wednesday. Chairperson of the Cobar Community Working Party Elaine Ohlsen delivered the Welcome to Country to receive the represent-atives of the 16 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities from across […]
Cobar’s sporting coaches had the benefit of picking the brains of four high perfor-mance coaches from the NSW Institute of Sport (NSWIS) at a community coaching workshop at Tom Knight Memorial Oval last week. Organised by the Far West Academy of Sport, the free coaching workshop was open to club […]
Businesses in the hospitality industry have been among the hardest hit over the past two years with the COVID pandemic. Many hospitality venues in NSW are looking forward to the last lot of restrictions being lifted this Friday. As part of the NSW Government’s staged and flexible approach to managing […]
Gordon Hill was named Cobar’s Citizen of the Year for 2021 at yesterday’s Australia Day Awards ceremony at the Cobar Memorial Swimming Pool. According to his nomination, Gordon is very much committed to the Cobar community and is always the first to put his hand up to help anyone in […]
In recognition of their service to the Bulla Rural Fire Brigade, the Rural Fire Service recently presented Long Service medals to brigade members Ann Marie Murphy (60 years service), Bulla brigade captain Bill Mahy (who accepted a 10 year medal on behalf of Simon Mahy) and Kevin Murphy (40 years […]
The Cobar Iron Ringers committee met again last week and are now moving for-ward with a plan to construct an Iron Ringer monument. The widely accepted meaning of the title of Iron Ringer is someone who was born in Co-bar and was coined by a former eminent Co-bar identity, Clarrie […]
Chris Deighton was returned as president at the Cobar Senior Rugby League Club’s annual general meeting on Sunday. Most of the committee line-up for the season ahead is unchanged with Nathan McAndrew returned as vice president, Mollie Harley as secretary and Jess Deighton has retained the treasurer’s position. Joining the […]
One of the seven division one winners of the TattsLotto draw 4175 on Saturday night, bought their winning entry at the Cobar Newsagency but as yet hasn’t come forward to claim their $834,643.56 prize. The Cobar Newsagency team of Oscar Punzet, Andre Van Wyk, Anni van der Westhuizen and Stephanie […]
A new toilet block on the Kidman Way between Cobar and Bourke, which former Cobar mayor Lilliane Brady OAM cam-paigned long and hard for, is now open. The new rest area on the Kidman Way will be of benefit to locals, tourists and freight driv-ers travelling between Cobar and Bourke. […]
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