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Cobar wraps up the year with big parade

Cobar Business Association’s Christmas Street Parade on Friday night has been labelled by locals as Cobar’s best parade ever! At an estimated 1.5km in length, with more than 50 vehicles and approximately 240 people on floats, in vehicles and on foot, we’d have to agree that it was indeed Cobar’s […]

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Setts Cup stays with the Cobar Club

The Cobar Yabbies Senior Men’s Swimming Club retained the Setts Cup after they once again beat the Nyngan Splashers RSL Swimming Club at the annual Setts Memorial Swim on Sunday in Nyngan. The Cobar club has won the trophy every year since the carnival’s inception 10 years ago to honour […]

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Hamming it up on the greens

Peter ‘China’ Brien, David ‘Ooze’ Knight and Brian Ferrett were constantly one-upped by John Goonrey, Shane Carter and Darryl Jermyn on the Golfie greens on Sunday morning. Goonrey, Carter and Jermyn finished as the day’s winners and took home the ham prizes. The weekly social bowls event now offers ham […]

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Cobar Weekly welcomes new president and a new member

After serving as The Cobar Weekly newspaper’s president for 20 years, David Snelson will now be taking a back seat on its voluntary advisory committee. Since its inception in 1986, Cobar’s not-for-profit, community newspaper has been overseen by a committee. David’s father, Peter Snelson, was one of the paper’s founding […]

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Another Yabby joins Spot on Club

Kyle Roberts became part of the Yabbies ‘Spot on Club’ last week when he joined the growing list of swimmers who are recording spot on times. Roberts was the 6th swimmer this season  to chalk up a spot on time at the Cobar Senior Men’s Swimming Club’s weekly events. He […]