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Junior Roosters had plenty to crow about
Cobar Roosters Junior Rugby League fans had plenty to cheer about on Saturday at Tom Knight Memorial Oval with their Under 11s, Under 12s and Under 16s teams all recording brilliant wins over visi-tors ,South Dubbo. The Under 11s game was a try-scoring fest for the Cobar team who were […]


STEAM Kit workshops
Joshua Ho Wing and Cole Barraclough getting some help from Cobar Library staff member Jay Mitchell at last Friday’s free STEAM session where participants got to make battery powered cars. The session is the first in a series of four STEAM Kit workshops the library is holding this month with […]

Keen tourist is riding 2,500km from Adelaide to Cairns
While pushbikes are a common form of transport used all around Europe, in Australia riding a pushbike on a 2,500km journey from Adelaide to Cairns is not many people’s preferred method of transport. That however is the plan of 34 year old, Italian-born Andrea Trivellato, who passed through Cobar last […]

CHS students invited to take part in a mentoring program
Cobar High School (CHS) students had the opportunity last Wednesday to take part in a mentoring program that aims to give Indigenous high school students the skills and confidence to finish school and transi-tion into university, further education or employment. AIME (Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience) is a dynamic mentoring program […]

Former NRL player/professional boxer talks about suicide
Former National Rugby League player and champion professional boxer, Joe Wil-liams, was in Cobar last week to deliver suicide prevention and wellbeing education workshops. Joe played for South Sydney Rabbit-ohs, Penrith Panthers and Canterbury Bull-dogs before switching to professional boxing in 2009 where he won two WBF World Jnr Welterweight […]