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Month: December 2019
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Yabbies win 5th consecutive Setts Memorial Trophy
The Cobar Yabbies Senior Men’s Swimming Club retained the Setts Memorial Trophy having once again comprehensively beaten the Nyngan Splashers in the annual swimming carnival on Sunday. It’s the Cobar club’s 5th consecutive win of the event since its inception five years ago to honour the memory of past Cobar […]
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Ben plays at World All Schools Rugby 7’s competition in NZ
Local schoolboy Ben Griffiths was in Zealand last week playing with the Australian National Indigenous Youth team at the World All Schools Rugby 7’s competition in Auckland. Ben reports it was an amazing experience. The Australian side played six games which included a friendly with the Cook Islands last Wednesday […]
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Barracudas finish on top in Mixed League Tag competition
2019 competition title after finishing with a 6-1 win over Racks & Sacks in the grand final on Thursday night at Tom Knight Memorial Oval. While the final score showed it was a fairly comprehensive win for Barracudas, the teams were however locked at 0-all for the first 10 minutes […]
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Some great results at CATS’ monthly triathlon event
Despite only having a small field of nine competitors, there were some great individual results recorded at the Cobar Athletics & Triathlon Squad’s monthly triathlon event on Sunday. Previous events this season have had the women on top of the podium, but Sunday’s event had the boys taking all top […]
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Efforts to use Mount Boppy water
Manuka Resources has an estimated 400 to 500 megalitres of water to give away from the pit at the Mount Boppy Mine at Canbelego, however red tape is holding them up. Manuka Resources’ Chief Operations Officer Haydn Lynch said the company has plans to mine the open pit at Mount […]
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Cobar High School recognises 2019’s top achievers
Darragh McMullen was presented with Cobar High School’s Dux Award for the highest ranking academic student at the school’s end of year presentations last Wednesday. This year’s perpetual award winners included: Abby Carswell (Anita Salter Nee Winders Memorial Award for Outstanding Participation in Sport, University of Newcastle Year 12 […]
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