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All Class finish as Minor Premiers
Another win last week in the final round of the Fast5 mixed netball regular competition ensured All Class finished on the top of the ladder this season. All Class, with 17 points, finished the season as Minor Premiers beating Fast Fobs by just one point for the title with Fast […]
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Pritchard takes home the Billy Manns Memorial Trophy
The annual Billy Manns Memorial Shoot was contested at the Cobar Clay Target Club on Sunday with overcast and stormy conditions testing the shooters’ skills. Hank Pritchard, with a near perfect score of 29 in the 30 Target Handicap Event, won the Billy Manns Memorial title over Kevin Hatch […]
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Cobar CWA chooses best entries from cooking competition
Four Cobar Country Women’s Association (CWA) members with winning entries in this year’s The Land Cookery Competition will progress to judging at Group level. The local judging of this year’s entries in the annual cooking competition took part on Saturday at the CWA Rooms in Becker Street with Haylee Prince […]
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Former Cobar bowler selected in Australian bowls squad
Former resident Chris Rosanes, who won numerous lawn bowls titles at Club, District and Zone levels while he was living in Cobar, has recently been selected in the Australian Lawn Bowls Squad. Chris moved interstate to Brisbane in 2018 and since then he’s well and truly made his mark on […]
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Visitor numbers have dipped a bit
Cobar Shire Council’s Tourism Manager Demi Smith reports visitors numbers to Cobar in October were down on previous months. In her report to last week’s Tourism Advisory Committee meeting, Demi said October’s visitor statistics were almost half of the numbers recorded in September. The total number of visitors to Cobar […]
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Women in business awards
Indy Negfeldt, the young owner of local business Cathead Country, was a finalist in this year’s Australian Women’s Small Business Champions Awards. Indy and members of her family attended the awards dinner in Sydney on Saturday night. Indy said while she may not have won her category, she’s “incredibly grateful” […]
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State Member pays tribute to Barry and Ginny Knight
The countless hours of voluntary work that local Barry Knight and his late wife Virginia (Ginny) contributed to the Cobar community was recognised in State Parliament last week. State Member for Barwon Roy Butler briefly outlined their contributions to Cobar in a Community Recognition Statement read out in parliament last […]
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Phat Athletes prove they’ve still got skills
It was mostly all one way traffic in the Adults Mixed Touch game between Phat Athletes and Urban Strength last Thursday night at Tom Knight Memorial Oval. Phat Athletes ran away to finish with an easy 18-4 win in Round 5 of the competition. Georgia Boland top scored in the […]
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Local students invited to join Sydney service
Cobar High School students and teachers were invited to perform at the St Marys RSL Sub Branch Remembrance Day service in Sydney on Friday. The invitation came after the Cobar group’s live recording of their performance on Anzac Day this year of a very moving ‘Hallelujah Veterans Version’, went viral. […]