Cobar Hospital and Cobar Community Health Nurses last week celebrated International Nurses Day, which is marked annually on May 12, Florence Nightingale’s birthday). The staff, who between them have over 600 years combined of nursing experience, came together to celebrate with afternoon tea last Friday. Pictured are Tarra Moore, Karen […]
Cobar Paramedics were acknowledged last week for the part they played in an emergency situation during a fire at the New Occidental Hotel in 2014 that claimed the life of retained firefighter Daniel ‘Howie’ Howard. NSW Ambulance Zone manager for central west Superintendent Stewart Clarke said the service was very […]
The David Peachey and Russell Richardson football gala day was held in Cobar last Wednesday. Cobar hosted the Peachey Shield (Year 5 and 6) and Richardson Cup (Years 3 and 4) matches at Ward Oval. The St John’s School Year 5/6 team won their three pool games against Nyngan Public […]
Bill Fugar and Cameron van Breugel (first and second from left) shared the limelight and the bulk of the trophies at the Cobar Yabbies Senior Men’s Swimming Club presentations at the Cobar Bowling & Golf Club on Friday night. Fugar won the 50metres title and van Breugel was the winner […]
Melbourne-based jockey Rhonda Mangan made the long trip to the Cobar Miners Race Club meeting on Saturday worthwhile by winning the KML Industries-Buckman Family Memorial Benchmark 50 Handicap (1,200 metres) for Cobar trainer Wayne Prisk. Jawsome ($3.80) took the early lead and held on to beat Minamahal (Jeff Kehoe, $5) […]
Five Cobar teams had their first hit outs of the 2019 Dubbo & District Junior Rugby League competition on Saturday up against the league’s strongest club, St John’s Gold. The matches were all played in Dubbo and, while the home side claimed five victories for the day, the Cobar teams […]
Five students from Cobar High School last week began school-based apprenticeships and traineeships with the CSA Mine. Benjamin Howson and Joshua Chaplain have been taken on by the mine as school-based apprentices in the field of Electrotechnology—Electrician; Ted Smith has commenced an Automotive Mobile Plant apprenticeship; Kaycee Cain is doing […]
Cobar High School Year 11 students Stevie Toomey and Holly Marsden have this year commenced a two year school-based traineeship at the Cobar Preschool Centre. Both are studying a Certificate III in Early Childhood Education and Care through the RTO Early Childhood Training And Resource Centre. As part of their […]
Bob Sinclair, who lives at Berangabah Station in the far south of the Cobar Shire, is smiling broadly after he received 21mm of rain last week. Bob said the widespread rain was “tremendous”. “I’m looking at my two house tanks which are full and lots of other tanks on the […]
The Cobar Roosters First Grade side scored their first win of the Christie & Hood Rugby League season on Saturday and they did it in fine style. The Roosters ran in nine tries in their 46-26 victory over the Coonamble Bears in front of a vocal home crowd on Saturday […]
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