2023
Year: 2023
2023
New chef at Services Club serving traditional Chinese
The Cobar Services Club has a new chef in the kitchen with Ben Lwu opening his ‘Little Chef’ restaurant at the club last week. Ben did his two years of training at a chef school in China nearly 17 years ago before going into the family business. Since moving to […]
2023
Winning double for Roosters over Bombshells
A five try burst in the space of less than 15 minutes helped the Cobar Roosters to a 42-18 win over the Binnaway Bombshells in their Round 7 Christie & Hood Castlereagh Rugby League First Grade game on Saturday. It was the club’s second win of the day in their […]
2023
Feral pig numbers are out of control
Farmers around the state are calling for more resources to combat a huge rise in the number of feral pigs which are destroying their properties and killing their stock. The Cobar Weekly spoke with a number of landholders across the region and all report seeing dramatic increases in pig numbers. […]
2023
Under 16’s league match fittingly ends in 34-all draw
The Cobar Roosters Junior Rugby League teams played their Round 7 games of the Dubbo & District Junior Rugby League Competition at Wellington and Dubbo on Saturday. The Under 16’s match against the Wellington Cowboys, played with just 11 players on each side, finished in an exciting 34-all draw. With […]
2023
New carparking area expected to be in operation soon
Cobar Shire Council will be working hard to have a new parking area (that will be available for use by free campers) established within the next two months. Council’s tourism manager Demi Smith reported to last Thursday’s Tourism Advisory Committee meeting that Council had made work on the Heritage Park […]
2023
Passing on a traditional family skill
When your surname literally translates to papermaker (or more correctly paper mill), local library staff member, Natalia Papierniak (who is of Polish origin) was well qualified to lead Cobar Shire Council’s Book Binding workshop on Sunday. The Book Binding workshop at the Cobar Youth & Community Centre on Sunday was […]
2023
Bantams bow out of the competition
The Cobar Roosters Under 18s side have bowed out of the Christie & Hood Castlereagh Rugby League Youth League competition after they were narrowly beaten by Binnaway in their semi final match at Binnaway on Sunday. The match was close from start to finish with Binnaway eventually finishing as 30-26 […]
2023
Show Society volunteers are confident and optimistic
Cobar Show Society committee members joined other agricultural show volunteers from around the state at a conference in Dubbo on the weekend which aimed to celebrate, motivate and educate volunteers on what makes a great show in 2023 and beyond. Volunteers from 192 country and suburban shows in New South […]
2023
Championship games draw a crowd
Two Championship Bowls Singles games drew quite a crowd of spectators to the Golfie greens on Saturday. Tony Polack and Glenn ‘Kiwi’ Ratcliffe’s game started out in favour of Kiwi until Polly’s consistency finding grass and weight proved to be too good for Kiwi and Polly finished as the +12 […]