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Seven Cobar players collect Cougars’ end of season awards
Seven Cobar players featured in the Castlereagh Cougars Women’s Rugby League Club end of season awards. The 2024 awards presentations took place at the Coonabarabran Bowling Club on Sunday. Kayla Hasson-Williams was named the Opens’ Best Forward. In the Under 18s team, three Cobar players collected awards including: Most Improved […]
Migrant workers help LBV to reach a ‘fully staffed’ status
Five new Lilliane Brady Village (LBV) staff members, who have come to Australia from India, Papua New Guinea and Nepal to work, have enabled the aged care facility to now claim a ‘fully staffed’ status. Council’s HR manager Summer Patterson said the LBV has long had to rely on agency […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Local business owners heading west on new business venture
After 13 years of running Cobar Thai, owner Nandar (Amm) Soe Sein and her husband Nay Linn are now looking for a new business venture in Western Australia. It’s a bittersweet move for the pair and their two young sons because, despite having loved living in Cobar, the family feels […]
Pink Kinis win back-to-back matches
Catch up games were played in the Seniors Touch competition on Thursday night with Round 6 and Round 7 matches in the 13-16 years competition played last week as a double-header. Pink Kinis and Blue Bulls both won back-to-back matches in their double-header round. Pink Kinis won their Round 6 […]
ClubGrants assist 14 groups
Cobar Bowling & Golf Club has distributed over $40,000 to 14 local community and sporting groups as part of it’s 2024 ClubGrants program. Pictured above is the club’s secretary/manager Jason Howell (at far left) with representatives of the recipient groups. Among the community group beneficiaries were the Brennan Centre, Cobar […]