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Aurelia donates $95,000 to community

Aurelia Metals has recently provided an update on its donations to the Cobar Community through its Peak Donations committee. For the first six months of this year, Aurelia has provided close to $95,000 to a number of organisations including Cobar Preschool, Cobar High School, NNWW Aboriginal Corporation, the Iron Ring […]

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Pistol club members welcomed Roy to the range

Cobar Amateur Pistol Club members represented Cobar at the Dubbo Pistol Club Western Plains Championships over the weekend. Six disciplines were shot on Saturday and Sunday with each of the four Cobar competitors earning a top three placing in their respective grades. In the Centrefire Sports Match, Tim Turton and […]

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Bantam Roosters are cock of the walk

Cobar Roosters Under 18s are cock of the walk after winning the Castlereagh Youth League grand final at Tom Knight Memorial Oval on Saturday. The Bantams won a nail-biting thriller, 18-16, in extra time over the Gulgong Bull Terriers. (Full match report on Page 22.) The Cobar club hosted all […]

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Roosters will be hard to beat

The Cobar Roosters Under 18s will host Gulgong for the Castlereagh Youth League grand final on Saturday at Tom Knight Memorial Oval. On paper, the Cobar side, who finished as the minor premiers this season, will be hard to beat. They have only recorded one loss this season and that […]

Local News

Busy agenda for tourism meeting

Cobar’s Tourism Advisory Committee meeting last Thursday at the Services Club had a big agenda to work through. Council’s tourism manager Demi Smith presented the latest tourism statistics and reported that July has been our busiest month this year. A total of 3,823 people have visited the Visitors Information Centre […]

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Stage is set for big day of rugby league

The stage is set for a huge day of rugby league in Cobar this Saturday as the Cobar Roosters host four grand final games of the Christie & Hood Castlereagh Rugby League competition. Cobar teams will feature in two of the four grand finals with the Roosters First Graders taking […]

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A legacy to Larnie

Cobar Netball Association president Mary Urquhart (second from left) was named this year’s Larnie Keen Club Person of the Year for her hard work and dedication to both senior and junior netball this season. Mary was presented with her award on Friday night by fellow umpire and great friend of […]

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Getting the placement right

Members of the Cobar Iron Ringer Committee, Cobar Shire Council staff and local contractors involved in the Iron Ring monument build, last Wednesday met on the site where the monument is to be located (adjacent to the Barrier Highway opposite the Great Cobar Museum). The group determined which direction the […]