Cobar’s Hannah Carroll was in the front row line-up for the Western Rams Opens side when they took on the Monaro Colts in the opening round of the Women’s Rugby League Country Championships at Parkes on Sunday. The women’s and men’s Country Champion-ships competitions feature 10 teams from across regional […]
Cobar’s sporting coaches had the benefit of picking the brains of four high perfor-mance coaches from the NSW Institute of Sport (NSWIS) at a community coaching workshop at Tom Knight Memorial Oval last week. Organised by the Far West Academy of Sport, the free coaching workshop was open to club […]
Cobar High School held their annual swimming carnival on Friday at the Cobar Memorial Swimming Pool. The overall winning team was Chesney, followed by Fort Bourke, Great Cobar and then Occidental. Six swimmers, Nicholas Hodges, Toby Greenwood, Harry Cousins, Braiden Jones, Axel Fairfull and Henry Knight, have all now qualified […]
Vitality Works staff were kept busy at the COVID vaccination clinic at the Services Club last week. Vaccination team leader Ross Penman said they were impressed with the turn out for the clinic, which included a number of residents who had driven over 100km to get vaccinated along with some […]
Cobar High School is taking a brand new whole-of-school approach to teaching litera-cy with a goal to have all students and staff reading the same book. Front-lining the literacy pilot program is CHS’s head teacher of school improvement, Amie Hill who explained how the program works and how it came […]
The Cobar branch of the Country Women’s Association (CWA) is reviving a longheld CWA tradition and bringing back their cookery competition. The Land Cookery Competition is sponsored by The Land newspaper and is open to any resident in NSW or the ACT—entrants don’t have to be a CWA member to […]
Three Cobar High School students had an amazing opportunity last week to go and see the Australian stage production of Hamilton and also get a behind the scenes look at how the show is made. Jordan Warren (Year 12), Ebony Aumua (Year 11) and Tiana Jones (Year 10) joined a […]
Labor Senator Deborah O’Neill paid a visit to Cobar last week to introduce La-bor’s candidate for the Parkes electorate in the upcoming Federal election. Senator O’Neill said she believes a change is in the air out west and feels Labor’s candidate, Jack Ayoub from Coonabarabran, is the new man for […]
Anyone who has been impacted or be-reaved by suicide, regardless of their rela-tionship to the deceased or the amount of time that has passed since the suicide oc-curred, can access support locally. The StandBy Support After Suicide service for residents of Western NSW is coordinated by Mandi Smart, who is […]
Counting continues this week to find a result in Cobar’s Local Government by-election. NSW Electoral Commission’s (NSWEC) returning officer Vanessa Reschke said they should have a pretty good idea by the end of the week which one of the two candidates will be elected to Cobar Shire Council. As of […]
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