Front Page
Year: 2018
Local Sport
Top of the table team got toppled off
Hustlers toppled off top of the table team, The Opposition, in the Mixed Indoor Netball competition last Tuesday night at the youth centre. The match started on an even keel with the scores locked at just 3-all at the end of the first quarter. Hustlers then pulled away to have […]
Local Sport
Broughton beats the field home in 5km colour fun run
Zac Broughton was the fastest finisher of the 2018 Colour Run, an event organised by the Cobar Youth Council as part of the Festival of the Miner’s Ghost program. Broughton completed the 5km circuit on Saturday morning in a quick time of 23 minutes to beat the rest of the […]
Local Sport
Weekend was a Twenty/20 feast
The local cricket competition was packed with Twenty/20 fixtures over the weekend. On Friday night Hombres got the win over CSA while in Saturday’s doubleheader Golfie beat Peak and Bushies won against Smashers. After being in early trouble on Friday night, Hombres were then led to victory with a knock […]
Back Page
Fashion stakes high in fun charity golf day
The golf Charity Day Ambrose on Sunday (formerly the Police Charity Day) was a huge success with 103 players (26 teams) taking part. Run together by the local men and women golfers, the proceeds of the day including the nominations, raffle and auction, will be divided between the Cobar Public […]
Local News
Council will go ahead with truck wash
The main discussion at last week’s Cobar Shire Council Ordinary Meeting was whether or not council should go ahead and build a new truck wash. Cr Peter Maxwell put a rescission motion to the meeting calling for council to reconsider building a new truck wash which he said had morphed […]
Local News
Local News
Good showing from locals in festival show and shine
Cobar local Tanya Gilbert took out the People’s Choice award at the 2018 Dust Bowl Fuel Burners Show n’ Shine event on Saturday with her 1956 Holden FJ Ute, affectionately known as ‘Poison Ivy’. The Show n’ Shine was the feature event of the inaugural Running On Empty Festival program […]
Local News
National attention on a local cause
A local woman’s battle to have a law changed regarding the definition of guilt by reason of mental illness has gained national attention. Wendy Robinson has been involved in a court case spanning over 18 months to prevent her brother from inheriting from their parents’ estates after he murdered them […]
Local News
Charity group helps purchase water for farmers in need
An online charity group, GIVIT, has delivered 200 supermarket vouchers for Cobar’s rural residents to purchase emergency drinking water. GIVIT’S NSW Drought Relief Manager Scott Barrett coordinated the delivery worth $6,000 to Cobar last week with local staff from the Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS) helping to distribute the vouchers […]