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New magazine aims to capture the best of Cobar community
A brand new local magazine, The Dirt on Cobar, has hit the streets to help promote the best our community has to offer. The Cobar Weekly, which produced the magazine, held an official launch function last Thursday night to celebrate the release. Magazine editor Tahnee Tomek and photographer Klae McGuinness […]
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CHS students celebrate NAIDOC Day
Cobar High School celebrated NAIDOC Day at the school on Monday with students taking part in a range of activities to mark the occasion. NAIDOC Day activities are held around the country each year to celebrate the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. The NAIDOC […]
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Junior Roosters score two good wins on the road
The Cobar Junior Roosters were on the road on Saturday to play their Round 7 Dubbo & District Junior Rugby League games in Dubbo and Nyngan. The Under 10s and Under 14s teams returned home as winners over their St John’s Dubbo opposition. The Under 10s won their nail biting […]
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Determined Binnaway team finished with a close 40-32 win
The Cobar Roosters came up against some very determined opposition in the Binnaway Bombshells on Saturday in Round 9 of the Castlereagh Rugby League competition with the visitors rewarded for their more than four hour drive with a close 40-32 win. The temperature may have only got to a top […]
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Small field braves the cold for final event of the season
The final event of the Cobar Athletics & Triathlon Squad’s (CATS) Duathlon Tri Series was contested on Sunday morning. It was also the final event of the 2017/2018 season and was contested in bitterly cold conditions which kept the competitor numbers down to just four. Scott Brown finished as the […]
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Roosterettes quick off the mark against Bombshells
The Roosterettes were quick off the mark and scored early in their Castlereagh League Tag match against Binnaway on a cold Saturday afternoon at Tom Knight Memorial Oval. The Roosterettes were up 12-0 early in the match and despite a spirited second half fight back from the visitors, the Cobar […]
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Public feedback shaping pool contract
Cobar Shire Council has this week released the specifications for the new contract for the management of the Cobar Memorial Swimming Pool and is expecting lots of interest. Council’s director of finance and community services, Kym Miller said the new contract has been written with community feedback taken into account. […]
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Mobile children’s services uncertain
Funding for the continuation of Cobar Mobile Children’s Services (CMCS) playgroups for bush kids is up in the air with the service unsure what will happen from next month. Four days a week the CMCS staff visit children on isolated properties catering for families on 17 stations to deliver educational […]