Month: May 2020
Options thrown about for netball
The Cobar Netball Association is keen to start their 2020 season and has been making contingency plans ready to put into place when they are given the green light for sporting competitions to recommence. Netball competitions, like all other team sports, have been banned under the government’s COVID-19 social distancing […]
Bird flies too far south for the winter
A tropical bird that’s more at home in the Northern Territory, the Jabiru, was spotted just west of Cobar last week. Local landholder Graeme Barton reports that he saw (and photographed) the bird, which he later identified as a Jabiru, feeding on the side of the Barrier Highway about 10km […]
Veteran Squalleyball player chooses his fantasy team
When Squalleyball veteran Colby Lawrence was asked to pick his Dream Team for The Cobar Weekly he said at first he was afraid, he was petrified. And then when he sat down to write up a team list, he found it hard going. “I’m going to list nine players as […]