Month: March 2020
Rotary’s drought relief topped up with a $6,000 donation
The Rotary Club of Cobar’s Drought Relief Project fund received a top up with a $6,000 donation from the Mt Waverley Rotary Club in Melbourne last week. Mt Waverley club president Beth Merkus and fellow club member Loretta Crew travelled to Cobar to deliver the donation to the Cobar club […]
Cobar cricket’s best of the 40 Overs and Twenty/20 seasons
The Cobar & District Senior Cricket Club held their end of season awards night on Saturday at the Cobar Bowling & Golf Club at the culmination of the 2019/2020 40 Overs and Twenty/20 seasons. Nymagee finished as the 2019/2020 40 Overs competition premiers and also minor premiers. Although grand final […]
Coronavirus causes cancellations
Australian Government this week to help slow the spread of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) have had wide-reaching effects which has caused the cancellation of a number of Cobar’s social and sporting events. Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s directive to ban non-essential mass gatherings of 500 or more people means many events […]
Bushies record back-to-back wins
Bushies have recorded back-to-back Twenty20 Cricket grand final wins after beating Tilpa by six runs in a tense match on Friday night. Bushies won the toss and elected to bat first. Their openers Alec Fraser and Jade Buckman made a cautious made as they looked to lay a solid foundation […]
Breastscreen Van visits literally saving local ladies lives
Having been diagnosed with breast cancer 10 years ago, Pam Sikora is strong advocate for breast screening, which is how her cancer was first detected. “I recommend the breast screen to anybody and scanning for younger women. “It’s basically a thing you have to have nowdays,” Pam said. Results have […]
Egan manages to tame the golf course
Finally a golfer managed to tame the difficult local course on Sunday with Jay Egan scoring 42 individual points, making it the best round of the year (only four over Par). Egan and Alec Fraser combined to score 72 points to win Sunday’s Multiplier event. In second place were Paul […]
Nymagee’s win reaffirms long dominance in cricket
Nymagee overwhelmed Empire to win the 40 Overs Senior Cricket competition premiership for the 12th time on Saturday. Nymagee’s long dominance of the sport was reaffirmed on Saturday with their best bowling and fielding display for the season. From the first over, when Empire’s Tom McKenna was removed, Nymagee looked […]