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Roosters fight hard for 66-12 win over Bulldogs
After what looked like it was going to be a close, tough game, the Cobar Roosters ran away to easily beat Collarenebri 66-12 in Saturday’s Barwon Darling Cup First Grade rugby league game on Saturday. Played in front of a vocal crowd at Tom Knight Memorial Oval, the game started […]
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Health Minister signs off on MPHS
Cobar Shire Council reports the proposed new Multi Purpose Health Service (MPHS) has finally been signed off by the State Health Minister which paves the way for council to recruit an aged care provider for the Lilliane Brady Village. Council’s director of finance and community services Kym Miller said State […]
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Records tumble at Cobar High’s annual athletics carnival
Cobar High School held their annual Athletics Carnival at Ward Oval last Wednesday with multiple records broken on the day. Under 14 girls competitor Hannah Carroll broke three records at the carnival as well as winning all of her nine events. Hannah’s Shot Put throw of 10.39 metres broke a […]
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Wilkin starts busy week of golf with win on Wednesday
A big week of women’s golf kicked off last Wednesday with a Par game that was won by Jannine Wilkin. Wilkin finished with a score of +1 after a countback and was declared the winner over Susan Goonrey, who also finished with +1. Daphne Cross claimed third spot with -1 […]
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State success
Cobar netballers had great results at the Netball NSW 2017 State Championships over the long weekend at Baulkham Hills in Sydney. The Cobar Opens team competed in Opens Division 2 finishing with eight wins for the tournament while three Cobar juniors, who joined the Glen Innes team, finished as winners […]
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Cobar netballers win state title
Cobar junior netballers Zoe Carter, Abby Carswell and Lauren Urquhart joined the Under 17s Glen Innes team to contest this year’s Netball NSW State Championships over the weekend and helped their side to a Division 3 win. Glenn Innes coach Maryanne Perkins said she had been very pleased to welcome […]
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Local riders race through the desert in annual Finke event
Eight Cobar riders, and a former local rider, competed in this year’s Tatts Finke Desert Race in the Northern Territory over the long weekend. The two-day event saw 695 competitors on cars, bikes, buggies and quads travel 460km through desert country from Alice Springs to the Aputula (Finke) community and […]
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New caravan park managers eager to promote Cobar
The Cobar Caravan Park has recently welcomed new park managers Joe and Michelle Neate, who are very eager to boost tourism and put Cobar on the map. The newlyweds stepped straight into the manager’s role from their honeymoon last month and while both don’t actually have backgrounds working in hospitality, […]
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