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Junior swimmers hit the blocks

The Cobar Swimming Club held their first pointscore swim last Wednesday night at the Cobar Memorial Swimming Pool. There was a big turn out of junior swimmers who were able to compete in 200m, 50m, 33m and 17m Freestyle events and also 100m, 50m, 33m and 17m Butterfly events. Pictured […]

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Celebrating a 40 year milestone

A number of local events that had to be cancelled or postponed by the COVID pandemic are now starting to take place, including the St Lawrence O‘Toole’s Catholic community’s celebrations to mark their parish priest’s 40th anniversary as a priest. The church’s previous plans to celebrate Fr Paul Finucane’s milestone […]

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Noona’s new weapon

The Noona Rural Fire Brigade took delivery of a new fire fighting weapon last Wednesday to help with their fire fighting efforts in the west of the shire. Pictured above with their new modern fire appliance, a Cat 7 truck, are Noona Brigade Deputy Captain Dudley Reschke and Captain Bill […]

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A community of creatives

The work of a number of new artists fea-tured at the Cobar Arts Council annual art exhibition and competition at the railway station over the weekend. Among the new artists featuring their work for the first time in Cobar was high school art teacher, David Pickard. David entered a number […]

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CSA and Sandvik are coming to the party

The Cobar Business Association has started their Christmas celebrations early with the committee already in “party mode” after securing sponsorship for this year’s Christmas street parade. Association president Sharon Harland said they were thrilled to be partnering with Glencore CSA Mine and Sandvik this year to make the 2021 Christmas […]

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Advice from pro will go a fair way

Professional Golfers Association (PGA) coach, Gary Begg, was back in Cobar over the weekend to impart his golfing knowledge and expertise to juniors, begin-ners and current golfers at two free golf clinics. A field of 25 would-be golfers turned out for the first of two free clinics on Friday afternoon […]