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Pop-up Vaccination clinic is back

Cobar High School principal Shane Carter received his COVID booster shot yesterday from health staff member Shai Franklin at the Western NSW Local Health District’s pop-up vaccination clinic. The clinic, at the Cobar Services Club, continues today for residents five years and over. Places are limited and bookings are essential.

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Making the most of holidays

Taking part in a Cleverclay frame decoration holiday craft activity at the Cobar Shire Library on Monday morning were Molly Fitzsimmons, Chris Florance, Queena Jiang and Zane Corfe under the supervision of library staff Natalia Papierniak and Joanne Miller. More school holiday activities were offered this week and included sand […]

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Cobar finally gets its hands on RATs

Local schools have received their alloca-tion of rapid antigen tests (RATs) in time for students and teachers to return to school next week. Around 8.2 million kits have been distributed to more than 3,000 government and non-government schools and early childhood cen-tres across the state over the past week. The […]

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 […]