The number of nominations for this year’s Australia Day sporting awards may have been down on previous years (due mainly to COVID restrictions), however the quality of this year’s winners was still very high. Simone Knight earned the Service to Sport award for her ongoing and exceptional work at Cobar […]
Peter Brown, from the Caboolture Rotary Club in Queensland, is currently driving around Australia promoting the good work that Rotary Clubs do in our communities. Mr Brown, along with the Caboolture Rotary Club and various other Rotary clubs around Australia, created his vehicle to be a mobile billboard. Travelling by […]
The new Girl Guides Hall in Maidens Avenue was officially opened on Saturday morning by deputy mayor Peter Abbott. Cr Abbott was very impressed with the complete renovation of the former Council Ward Oval gatekeepers cottage and said he believed the Guides would be very happy in their new home. […]
Three Cobar residents, one of whom has been living in Cobar for almost 50 years, were naturalised as part of yesterday’s Australia Day celebrations. Elaine Jermyn, who is Scottish born, came to Australia with her family when she was 17. (Her father came out to sink the first shaft at […]
Approximately 50 emergency services staff and support personnel worked to secure the site of a large chemical spill 55km east of Cobar on the Barrier Highway last Thursday which had the potential for very serious consequences. The highway was closed in both directions for almost 17 hours after 26 tonnes […]
The Australia Day awards were held yesterday at the Cobar Memorial Swimming Pool with this year’s Australia Day ambassador and charity worker Katryna Robinson helping to hand out the awards. The Rotary Club of Cobar was recognised with the Bossie Mitchell Service to the Community Australia Day award for their […]
The Kubby House child care centre has gotten off to a positive start this year with a number of new staff coming on board under the direction of early childhood teacher, Tracey Bowman. Mrs Bowman, who joined the Kubby House staff at the end of last year on a casual […]
The Cobar Catholic community came together on Sunday to farewell parish priest Fr Sabbas Assenga who is moving on to Narromine. Originally from Africa, Fr Sabbas came to Cobar “for a short time” at the end of 2016. He said he was made to feel very welcome and has enjoyed […]
The Cobar Cemetery is looking a picture thanks to plenty of rain in the past few months and a hell of a lot of work over the past 16 years by caretaker, Bruce Shuttle. Bruce, a former truck driver and butcher, started helping out 16 years ago as part of […]
A project to digitally archive almost 20 years of the early copies of The Cobar Weekly has gotten underway. Over its almost 35 years of history, The Cobar Weekly staff has diligently kept a copy of every edition printed since the paper’s inception in February 1986. Staff however were concerned […]
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