Local business and tourism operators were given the opportunity to find out how the Cobar Visitor Information Centre and the Cobar Museum works during ‘A Night at the Museum’ information night last Wednesday. Tourism staff members spoke about their roles and how they greet and encourage visitors to stop, stay […]
Major works will be undertaken to help preserve the Great Cobar Heritage Centre funded by a State Government grant. Member for Barwon Kevin Humphries with Minister for Tourism and Major Events Adam Marshall yesterday announced Cobar Shire Council had secured $295,603 in funding as part of the first round of […]
A miners memorial service, held on Friday night as part of this year’s Festival of the Miner’s Ghost program, has been hailed as a great success and there are calls for it now to be an annual event. The service was held at the Miners Memorial Park opposite the Great […]
Members of the Treatt family from Sydney visited the Great Cobar Heritage Centre recently to make a special donation in honour of their ancestor, Frank Treatt, who lived and worked in Cobar in the early 1900s. The family presented museum curator Kay Stingemore with a beautiful silver tray, engraved with […]
Cobar Shire Council’s Economic Taskforce Committee met recently to develop several key points to present at last Thursday’s Ordinary Council Meeting. At the July 18 meeting members were provided with an update on the truck wash bay, the Regional Marketing and Promotion project, the development of the Destination Cobar website […]
Peak Gold Mines has teamed up with a number of local businesses to recover some important local mining artefacts which were last week delivered to the museum. Two smelter metal convertors standing a bit over two metres high and weighing approximately eight and 10 tonnes, as well as two large […]
The Australasian Mining History Association is holding its 22nd annual conference in Cobar this week. The week has been planned meticulously by the University of Canberra’s Dr Ken McQueen who has organised many interesting presentations as well as excursions to some of the surrounding mines and local tourist attractions. Cobar’s […]
The Great Cobar Heritage Centre is getting ready to undergo a fairly major facelift with restoration work expected to commence on the building’s balcony this week. Cobar tourism officer John Martin said scaffolding has been erected to allow for much needed restoration work to be carried out on the balcony. […]
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