Year: 2021
Kubby gets off to a positive start in new year
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 […]
Fr Sabbas Assenga’s farewell
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 […]
Cemetery caretaker retires after 16 years of dedication
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 […]
Project underway to digitally preserve our local history
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 […]
New Year’s goals achieved at CATS’ first event
Nine Cobar Athletics & Triathlon Squad (CATS) members have already ticked off one of their 2021 improvement goals for the season with all recording quick times at the club’s January triathlon event on Sunday. Some hard training over the past month paid off for Montana Daniel who finished as the […]