Cobar resident (and former Cobar Shire Councillor) Julie Payne addressed councillors prior to the December Ordinary Meeting last Thursday imploring them to take free camping at the Newey Reserve off their agenda. Mrs Payne made an impassioned plea for councillors to delete free camping from the Newey Reserve’s Plan of […]
Bright, sunny and slightly windy conditions greeted the field of 27 competitors for the Cobar Clay Target Club’s Christmas Novelty Shoot on Sunday. Lining up alongside the locals were also shooters from Bourke, Brewarrina, Hermidale and Warren hoping to win the ham trophies and meat trays, and keen to experience […]
The Great Cobar Museum’s new Coach House and Underground Mine Experience, which will showcase Cobar’s rich pastoral and mining history, is close to being completed. Many of the large display items have been moved in including drays, sulkies and an old Garford fire engine (pictured above). A number of large […]
Racing will continue in Cobar in 2026 after the Cobar Miners Race Club elected a new committee at their annual general meeting last week. The future of the sport had been in doubt after the club failed to gain a quorum for their first AGM a fortnight ago, however […]
Cobar High School held their end of year presentations at the school’s MPC on Thursday with Maddie Bruce named as the 2025 Dux of the School. As this year’s top academic student of the school, Maddie was presented with the Neil Hudson Memorial Honour Roll Cobar High School Dux award. […]
The ever improving Claudine Griffiths finished as the handicapped winner of the Cobar Athletics & Triathlon Squad’s (CATS’) December triathlon event at the Cobar Memorial Swimming Pool on Sunday morning. Claudine posted a personal best time of 44 minutes, 25 seconds for the Short Course, which was a 300m swim, […]
Cobar Public School principal, Jonathan Harvey, proudly praised the many achievements of his students over the past year and his dedicated staff. “Year after year, staff do everything they can to give kids the best education they can. “They don’t miss out on anything—academic, sporting, cultural, performing arts, science, etc, […]
A Grade have claimed the 2025 Squalleyball crown with a 4-1 win over their archrivals, Reserves, in last Wednesday night’s grand final at the Youthie. And they did it without their “king” Colby Lawrence, a veteran of the sport, who was declared medically unfit prior to the all important match. […]
The Cobar Weekly’s 2025 Christmas Cheer Competition, sponsored by Aurelia Metals and Cobar Powerhouse, was very popular this year with 31 nominations vying for our Cobar Quids prizes. Aurelia’s Health, Safety and Environment Community Manager Scott Ginnivan (pictured at centre above) presented 1st ($500 Cobar Quids), 2nd ($300 Cobar Quids) […]
Mako’s (A Grade) and Full Tilt (B Grade) have finished at the top of the tables in the Open Touch competition. Both sides got the night off last week as the rest of the competition’s teams were left to sort themselves out in the qualifying and elimination finals. The important […]
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