Former Cobar Catholic parish priest Fr Paul Finucane was back in town on Friday night with a group of Year 10, 11 and 12 students from St Leo’s College in Sydney with Aboriginal liaison officer David Ella from the Broken Bay Diocese. The group spent the first night of their eight day outback pilgrimage tour in Cobar taking in the local sights and enjoying the Fort Bourke Hill look out over New Cobar mine. The group plans to adventure further west and explore Mt Grenfell, Broken Hill, Menindee Lakes, Lake Mungo and White Cliffs as part of their tour.
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History made at pistol club event
After the rain during the week, and with a fine, sunny day on Sunday, shooters came out of the wood work for the Cobar Amateur Pistol Club’s 25 Metre Centrefire/Sports Pistol event. Under the guidance of Merv O’Brien who was the Range Officer for the day, a first in recent […]
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Local soccer games played on a glorious winter day
Cobar Junior Soccer Club players braved the cold foggy morning on Saturday to play their competition games in what later turned out to be a glorious winter day. The Minis kicked off their day with the Spurs and the Wanderers playing a great game which finished with a 5-2 win […]
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Roosters doubled up against Raiders
The Cobar Roosters senior rugby league teams were on the road early on Saturday morning headed to Dubbo to take on the Macquarie Raiders in the Tooheys Group 11 Rugby League competition. The Cobar club was short on players available for Saturday’s games with 11 players doing double duty to […]