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Options thrown about for netball
The Cobar Netball Association is keen to start their 2020 season and has been making contingency plans ready to put into place when they are given the green light for sporting competitions to recommence. Netball competitions, like all other team sports, have been banned under the government’s COVID-19 social distancing […]
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Bird flies too far south for the winter
A tropical bird that’s more at home in the Northern Territory, the Jabiru, was spotted just west of Cobar last week. Local landholder Graeme Barton reports that he saw (and photographed) the bird, which he later identified as a Jabiru, feeding on the side of the Barrier Highway about 10km […]
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Veteran Squalleyball player chooses his fantasy team
When Squalleyball veteran Colby Lawrence was asked to pick his Dream Team for The Cobar Weekly he said at first he was afraid, he was petrified. And then when he sat down to write up a team list, he found it hard going. “I’m going to list nine players as […]
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Competition golf to recommence
The local golf competition is scheduled to start again this weekend with a revised format. It’s over a month since the last competition game of golf was played and a lot of players having been champing at the bit for the course to open again. Some players have kept in […]
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Sinclair calls for rethink on selling land
Cr Bob Sinclair has called for Cobar Shire Council to rethink its policy for selling rural blocks of land for unpaid rates. The sale of land for unpaid rates and the problems it was causing rural landowners was discussed at the April Ordinary Council Meeting on Thursday. Council’s general manager […]
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Water restrictions eased for Cobar
After 14 months of not being able to use a sprinkler or irrigation system to water our lawns, Cobar residents will now get a reprieve with water restrictions to be eased this week. In response to increasing water storage levels at Burrendong Dam, Cobar Shire Council made the decision last […]
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Cobar’s water pipe replacement program progressing well
Over 3,000 metres of town water pipes has already been replaced as part of the town water mains renewal project. Contractor Killard Infrastructure began the pipe replacement work in February to renew 5.7km of the town’s water pipeline. The $3.9million project came in response to the deteriorating condition of the […]