It’s 50 years tomorrow since the Cobar Rugby League Football Club were victors in the Group 15 First Grade 1971 Grand Final playing under captain/coach Brian Lawrence. Cobar finished as 33-6 winners over Bourke. That season Cobar was also awarded the Country Rugby League Clayton’s Cup for the best overall […]
Cobar VIEW Club ladies indulged in a vir-tual trip to Italy at their September luncheon meeting last Tuesday. The Empire Hotel’s function room took on the atmosphere of an Italian Café with colourful checked tablecloths, baskets of crusty loaves, olives and garlic in true Italian style. Hostess, Cindy Bryan and […]
The Rural Fire Service and local rural fire brigades are preparing for the statutory Bush Fire Danger Period, which begins next month for fire prone areas, including Cobar Shire. Rural Fire Service District Manager for the Far West area, Superintendent Vaughn Els-worth, said after enduring a number of years of […]
While snake season usually begins around October and November in Australia, the warm weather of late has brought out snakes earlier this year in Cobar with multiple sightings of snakes over the past week. Lady golfers had to contend with three snakes on the course on Saturday, two residents came […]
One local resident, who’s just been diagnosed with her fourth lot of breast cancer, is hoping that Cobar women will be proactive when it comes to their breast health care. Larissa Johnson, who’s just 33 and has recently been diagnosed for the fourth time with breast cancer, first found a […]
There was no change to Cobar Shire Council’s leadership team at the Mayoral elections last week with Cr Peter Abbott returned as Mayor and Cr Jarrod Marsden as Deputy Mayor. Both were re-elected uncontested to their positions at Thursday’s Ordinary Council Meeting. The pair will continue to lead Council until […]
The youth of Cobar are looking like they will get the best of both worlds after Cobar Shire Council recently employed two local residents to job-share the role of Youth Of-ficer. Natalie Prisk and Stephen Gillette have been working in their roles for the past month and now that lockdown […]
The Cobar Roosters will have their name engraved on the Christie & Hood Castle-reagh Rugby League trophy as the 2021 competition winners, however club presi-dent Chris Deighton is less than happy to claim the hollow victory. Despite the keenness of Castlereagh clubs to get an on-field conclusion to the 2021 […]
After Saturday’s rain closed the golf course to all golfers, the Mixed Foursomes Club Championships were able to go ahead on Sunday with clear skies (and less dust than what golfers are used to) with 15 teams taking part. The Scratch winners for 2021 over the 27 holes were the […]
Cobar High School last week announced their newly elected school captains, Todd Polack and Joey Neale (pictured above at back with principal Shane Carter at centre). The pair were elected along with vice captains Sophie Clark and Elly-May Hand. Mr Carter said he was proud of how the students campaigned […]
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