St John’s School held the finals of their Public Speaking competition at the school last Wednesday. Pictured above are Year 2’s finalists Sophia Le Lievre, Michael Rogers and Xavier Foster, whose topic was ‘Country life is better than city life’. Students in other classes were tasked with discussing the benefits/disadvantages […]
While Cobar’s Running On Empty Festival (ROEF2022) next month will be “all about the cars” it will also have a focus on music. All of the live music at this year’s festival has a local connection. ROEF’s headline band, Edgecliff, who wowed Cobar audiences on New Year’s Eve at the […]
Edna Neale has been waiting a long time for “her letter from the Queen” and it arrived earlier this week (along with numerous cards and congratulatory letters) in time for Enda’s 100th birthday today. Born in Glebe in 1922, Enda came to Cobar in 1948 with her husband Bill who […]
The Iron Ringer committee met last week and has progressed further with their plans to build an Iron Ringer monument in Co-bar. According to Cobar history, the term Iron Ringer was a privileged title that could only be bestowed on people who were born in Cobar. The committee aims to […]
The Cobar Clay Target Club welcomed 149 shooters from Queensland, Victoria, South Australia and all around New South Wales for the 45th annual Golden Clay Tar-get Shoot over the weekend. The popular annual event on the shooting calendar, also featured the NSW Junior State Championships and Night State Point Score […]
Connie Greig, the winner of the NSW Picnic Trainers Premiership last season, was off to a flying start for the 2021/2022 title when winning four of the five races on the Cobar Picnic Cup program on Satur-day. The only race to evade the Dubbo trainer was the opening event in […]
A bowls Singles Championship game was played at the Golfie on Saturday be-tween a veteran and a shark. The match between Marlene Wynd and John ‘Shark’ Daly was a good one with Wynd consistently bowling spot on for 30 of the 35 ends, which was impressive to say the least! […]
Cobar owned and trained horse, Knee Slapper, looked a bit fidgety going into the starting gate in the final race on the Cobar Picnic Races program on Saturday, the Allan Wells Memorial Cobar Picnic Cup over 1,700 metres. Knee Slapper however got the best start (pictured above at far left) […]
The previously postponed Ladies Golf Pink Day Stableford went ahead on Sunday with 18 players taking part. The winning team, Robynne Morton, Tina Gordon and Sally Bannister, finished with 40 points. Morton was the day’s individual winner with 40 points and also won a Nearest the Pin prize on the […]
Co-owners of Knee Slapper, Colin ‘Butch’ Eves and Wayne ‘Wap’ Prisk (who also trains him) were pretty happy with the big seven year old gelding’s performance in the Allan Wells Memorial Cobar Picnic Cup feature race on Saturday where he finished third. Despite not having a run for the past […]
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