2023

Cobar’s Chad Buckman awarded Origin Energy Scholarship

Cobar’s Chad Buckman has won the 2023 Origin Energy Foundation Grant King Indigenous scholarship to help study a Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) degree at the University of NSW, Sydney. Head of the Origin Energy Foundation Michelle Zahra said the scholarship program was intended to address the under-representation of First Nations […]

2023

Pool contract won’t be tendered out

Cobar Shire Councillors have opted not to call for tenders for the management of the Cobar Memorial Swimming Pool but rather to extend the existing contract. Council’s director of finance and community services, Kym Miller proposed the extension to Councillors at last week’s Ordinary Council Meeting. Mr Miller said there […]

2023

Frasers finish in front in Foursomes

Cobar’s men golfers contested the annual Foursomes Championships over 27 holes on Saturday. The favorites, the two Fraser boys, Alec and Mark, were going to be a hard combination to beat if they played up to their ability. And they did with the boys beating their old man, Stewart Fraser, […]

2023

Feral pig numbers are out of control

Farmers around the state are calling for more resources to combat a huge rise in the number of feral pigs which are destroying their properties and killing their stock. The Cobar Weekly spoke with a number of landholders across the region and all report seeing dramatic increases in pig numbers. […]