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Rainfall starts to make an impact

Cobar’s wet winter is continuing with another two inches (50mm) of rain added to the gauges in the past week. Cobar Meteological Office recorded 8mm from solid falls last Thursday night, a further 10mm from rain throughout Friday and into Saturday morning, while Saturday was clearer with just 4.6mm in […]

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Camels’ impressive win over Bourke

The Cobar Camels beat Bourke 17-10 in their Western Plains Rugby match on Friday night at Ailsa Fitzsimmons Memorial Oval. The Camels led 7-0 at half time and maintained the upper hand throughout the game despite the wet, slippery conditions. The team’s strength and conditioning coach John Barnes said their […]

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Locals ride 2016 Finke Desert Race

Four Cobar Auto Club members made the long trip to Alice Springs to compete against 410 starters at the 2016 Tatts Finke Desert Race. The Tatts Finke Desert Race is an off road, multi-terrain two-day race for bikes, cars, buggies and quads through desert country from Alice Springs to the […]

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Cobar well represented at State Championships

It’s been a dream for eight years for Cobar netball coach Amie Hill to take a Cobar representative team to the State Championships and that dream was realised on the weekend when the Cobar Opens side competed at the Netball NSW 2016 Samsung State Championships at Charlestown. This year’s State […]

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Cobar rates high for violence

Cobar has ranked as the sixth worst NSW town for domestic violence incidents according to the latest figures released by Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research. According to the data there were 49 reported incidents of domestic violence related assault during the past 12 months in Cobar, 2.5 times the […]