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2016
The Cobar Weekly celebrates 30 years
The Cobar Weekly, Cobar’s own independent community newspaper, will celebrate its 30th anniversary this week. The first edition of The Cobar Weekly was produced on February 6, 1986 and 30 years later “the little paper” is still providing locals with all the latest news, sport and photos of local happenings. […]
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Local news gathering boosted by grant
Federal Member for Parkes Mark Coulton last week announced that The Cobar Weekly will receive a $12,627 grant to support employee wages, after being successful in the Public Interest News Gathering (PING) program. The Cobar Weekly was one of 107 regional news outlets across the country to benefit from the […]
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Project underway to digitally preserve our local history
A project to digitally archive almost 20 years of the early copies of The Cobar Weekly has gotten underway. Over its almost 35 years of history, The Cobar Weekly staff has diligently kept a copy of every edition printed since the paper’s inception in February 1986. Staff however were concerned […]