This Week’s News
Missed opportunities for Golf Club
Golf Club failed to make the most of the opportunities presented to them in their 40 Over Senior Cricket match against Nymagee on Saturday and Nymagee finished with an eight wickets win. Golf Club won the toss and elected to bat first and, uncharacteristically, Nymagee dropped several early chance catches […]
Jones smashes six school swimming records
Raymond Jones smashed six long standing records at Cobar High School’s annual swimming carnival last Wednesday at the Cobar Memorial Swimming Pool. Jones put in a sensational effort to break the Under 15 Years Boys’ records for the 50 metres freestyle, 50m backstroke, 50m butterfly, and 50m breaststroke events as […]
Health complaints
A complaint about health care that a patient received in Cobar was recently brought to the attention of the Cobar Health Council. Cobar Health Council chair Gordon Hill said while dealing with complaints is not one of the roles of the health council, he was able to direct the person […]
Sticker system putting business accessibility in focus
Ability Links is calling on local businesses to join in their ‘Access at a Glance’ project which aims to promote the accessibility of businesses. Linker Wendy Beetson has started visiting local businesses to talk about the new campaign which helps to promote increased accessibility to businesses and also to raise […]
Major players to meet to discuss water
Cobar Shire Council and representatives of Cobar’s three major mines, CSA, Endeavor and Peak, will meet with WaterNSW staff in Cobar next week to discuss our water situation. WaterNSW manages and operates the state’s 42 dams and storages to deliver water for environmental, domestic, town water, stock, industrial and irrigation […]
Funding flows for drought support
Cobar Shire residents will soon see $1million worth of drought support flow through the community, with a range of projects now approved under the Coalition Government’s Drought Communities Programme (DCP). Federal Member for Parkes Mark Coulton was delighted that Council will receive this funding. “I am so pleased to give […]
Locals battle it out for lip sync supremacy
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 […]
McAuley team wins St John’s swimming carnival
Team McAuley were big winners in St John’s School annual swimming carnival held earlier this month at the Cobar Memorial Swimming Pool. McAuley finished with 1,097 points to win over MacKillop on 786. Milla Davey claimed the Junior Girl Champion title with Alexis Ah-See the runner-up. Nate Martin was the […]