Month: June 2024
CHS equestrian team joins 450 riders
A team of four riders represented Cobar High School at the North-West Equestrian Expo earlier this month. The event is the biggest Inter School event in the southern hemisphere with 450 riders taking part this year in Coonabarabran. It was a big five days of competition in wet and very […]
Ward Oval now upgraded to a regional sporting centre
Cobar Shire Council’s $1.2 million lighting project at Ward Oval is almost complete with the new lights tested out on Friday and Saturday. Cobar junior netballers were the first sporting team to play under the new LED lights on the Ward Oval netball courts late on Friday afternoon followed by […]
Nail biting games played in biting cold
Three nail biting games were played in biting cold conditions in Round 7 of the Dubbo & District Junior Rugby League competition at Tom Knight Memorial Oval on Saturday. The mercury hadn’t even reached five degrees when the Under 6s non-competitive game kicked off at 8.30am and the temperature had […]
Visitor numbers to Cobar are rising
Cobar has welcomed 7,700 visitors to the Visitor Information Centre and the Great Cobar Museum in the first five months of this year. Cobar Shire Council’s tourism manager, Demi Smith said that figure is down slightly on last year’s total visitor figures from January to May 2023 of 8,487, but […]