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Company fined for worker’s death
PJL Pty Ltd has been fined $225,000 over the death of a worker at its Cobar workshop in 2014. A 30 year old diesel mechanic suffered fatal injuries when working at the company’s mechanical and engineering workshop in Cobar on May 16, 2014. The man was crushed when a load […]
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Local business to offer revolutionary EMDR therapy
Since starting her AWI Consulting business in 2010, psychologist Angela Webb has worked hard to ensure that country residents have the same access to mental health services as their city counterparts. “AWI Consulting and Psychology strives to provide rural and remote communities with a professional service by passionate registered mental […]
2017
Cobar’s best riders recognised at club presentations
The Auto Club of Cobar held their Presentation Night and annual general meeting at the Empire Hotel on Saturday where the 2016 Club Champions were celebrated. The Overall Champion of 2016 was Joel Mawhinney and the winner of the Craig “Gadget” Peaty Open MX Memorial Trophy was […]
2017
Yabbies’ weekly swims continue
While many local sports are currently taking a break, the Cobar Yabbies Senior Men’s Swimming Club weekly swims have been continuing. The championships points have been shared around over the past few weeks with no one swimmer dominating the competition. In the first swim of the year on January 3, […]
2017
CATS kick off the new year with two broken records
Two records were broken at the Cobar Athletics & Triathlon Squad’s (CATS) first event of the year on January 15. Bourke competitor Tammy Watson set a new time for the club’s long course completing the 500m swim, 20km cycle and 4km run circuit in a quick time of 1hr 12min […]
2017
Cobar cleans up after a massive storm
Cobar residents were still cleaning up yesterday after a severe storm on Monday night dumped 10mm of rain on the town in just four minutes. The storm that directly hit Cobar just after 7pm on Monday brought with it torrential rain (20mm in total) and recorded wind gusts of 98km […]
2017
Cobar was well represented at Dubbo New Year Carnival
A group of 11 athletes from the Cobar Athletics Club competed at the 40th annual Dubbo New Year Athletics Carnival at Barden Park on January 6, 7 and 8. The group competed in various track and field disciplines in their age divisions. Hannah Kriz won all four of her Under […]
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Entrepreneur ambassador is passionate about Parkinson’s
Self-made entrepreneur and passionate advocate for Parkinson’s Disease research, Clyde Campbell will be Cobar’s 2017 Australia Day ambassador. Mr Clyde stated his working career as an industrial electronics apprentice in country NSW 29 years ago and now runs his own company, Machinery Automation & Robotics. His team of 70 staff […]
2017
Michael Zannes steps up into the GM’s role at Peak
New Gold Peak Gold Mines have appointed their commercial manager Michael Zannes as the mine’s interim general manager following the recent departure of Greg Bowkett. Mr Bowkett recently moved to Ontario, Canada, to take up the role of general manager at New Gold’s Rainy River site. Mr Bowkett started at […]