Cobar is lit up with cheerful Christmas displays and our discerning judges are almost ready to cast their eyes over this year’s entries in The Cobar Weekly’s Christmas lights competition. Competition coordinator Tahnee Tomek said the quality of displays gets better each year. “These days it’s not just about the […]
Hot conditions attracted 37 competitors for this year’s Cobar Clay Target Club Christmas Novelty shoot on Sunday. The event attracted shooters from Bourke, Hermidale, Brewarrina and Tamworth to vie for the renowned excellent meat tray trophies, the challenge of unusual events, and to experience the club’s hospitality. The club […]
After 40 years of service to the Wilcannia-Forbes Diocese as a teacher, principal and most recently a consultant, local Deb Fryer had decided it’s time to move on. A very well-known face at St John’s Primary School, Deb started in 1978 as a classroom teacher and for the next 30 years […]
Cobar Shire Council has secured a good slice of the almost $6.5million recently awarded to the Barwon Electorate from the NSW Government’s Stronger Country Communities Fund. Council is to receive $488,340 in total with $345,280 allocated to build the next stage of the Drummond Park Adventure Playground while $142,520 will […]
The severe weather over the weekend washed out the scheduled local senior cricket games but not before Jake Harbison blasted 108 runs against Tilpa. In Friday’s Twenty/20 match between Howie’s Hombres and Tilpa, the rain came down seven overs into Tilpa’s innings putting a stop to the match. Howie’s Hombres […]
Chairman of the Cobar Miners Memorial Project Barry Knight reports the Cobar community has been very generous over the past six months with donations to help see the project come to fruition. He said the committee’s major fundraiser of selling pavers (which closes at the end of this month) has […]
The Cobar 221 Cadets celebrated their 25th anniversary of operating a youth service over the weekend with a formal Dining In night on Saturday and a Fun Day on Sunday. The well attended Dining In event at the Services Club on Saturday night was supported by the attendance of Colonel […]
Cool conditions on Sunday morning reduced the field to just five Mermaids for the women’s swimming club weekly meeting. Spurred on by the chill in the air, Ellen Davidson turned in a fantastic time in the first event, the 30 metres handicapped freestyle swim. Davidson finished just 0.04 seconds off […]
The Cobar Primary Health Care Centre (CPHCC) last week welcomed a new doctor to the surgery. Dr Afshin Farajollahi and his wife Mona recently arrived in Cobar from Queensland where Dr Afshin had been working as a GP in Rockhampton. The couple are originally from Iran where Dr Afshin did […]
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