2022
Month: January 2022
2022
Local landholders seeing improvements in invasive weeds
Cobar Shire landholders who have been working closely with Western Local Land Services (Western LLS) to improve and sustain the condition of natural resources are now beginning to see positive results from the work they’ve undertaken. The local landholders are part of a group of 25 landholders across the western […]
2022
Transported to Hawaii for the hols
Local music teacher Judy Toomey helped to transport a group of local youth to Hawaii last week at the Cobar Shire Library when she offered students tips on how to play the ukulele. The classes to learn to play the iconic Hawaiian instrument were offered as part of Cobar Shire […]
2022
Imitation firearm seized
A 21 year old man was arrested and charged at Cobar Police Station on Monday afternoon after he used an imitation gun to threaten another person. Police seized the gel blaster pistol (which resembles a Glock handgun) from a home in Wetherell Crescent at 4.20pm after executing a search warrant […]
2022
CSA makes big commitment to training
CSA Mine has taken on a large cohort of apprentices for 2022 which includes offer-ing seven full time apprenticeships and five school-based apprenticeships across five different trades. A special apprentice induction was held for the big group at the mine last Thursday led by the mine’s Training Advisor and Apprentice […]
2022
Gordon, Guides, Barry, Business and Camels commended
Gordon Hill was named Cobar’s Citizen of the Year for 2021 at yesterday’s Australia Day Awards ceremony at the Cobar Memorial Swimming Pool. According to his nomination, Gordon is very much committed to the Cobar community and is always the first to put his hand up to help anyone in […]
190122
Bushies win in close encounter
The local Twenty20 senior cricket compe-tition has resumed with Bushies and Tooth-less picking up wins in close encounters in their matches over the weekend. Friday and Saturday nights’ games were played on the same pitch at Ward Oval which was very lively after the storm on Thursday night and, with […]
190122
Records take a tumble at CATS’ January Triathlon
The CATS’ (Cobar Athletics & Triathlon Squad’s) Long Course club records were broken in both the male and female classes of the January Triathlon event on Sunday morning. Finlay Robinson, who set a new Short Course record for the club on debut in Decem-ber, now holds the Long Course record […]
190122
Regional swimming success
Cobar Swimming Club’s Henry Knight competed at the NSW Country Regional Swimming Carnival in Gunnedah earlier this month coming up against swimmers from all over NSW country including competitors from Coffs Harbour, Tamworth, Blue Mountains, Port Macquarie and Casino. From his seven events, Henry finished with four second places and […]
190122
Musician plans to spend free time and money in Cobar
Traditional country music singer/ songwriter, Justin Landers, has been working for the past year on his latest album, Free Time And Money, which Justin’s currently promoting on his latest tour. One of the ports of call on his Free Time and Money album tour is the Cobar Services Club with […]