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Power outage as another storm rips through Cobar
Cobar residents sweltered on Sunday afternoon after many homes and businesses were left without power for more than an hour. Storm activity in the area on Sunday afternoon just before 4pm included a number of lightning strikes, one of which hit Essential Energy’s power lines approximately 55km east of Cobar. […]
Local Sport
Many worthy nominees for Australia Day sports awards
Local clay target shooters Robert Thompson and Scott Brydon were named as joint winners of this year’s Australia Day Sportsperson of the Year award. Swimmer Makaila Gordon won the Kerrigundi Award and Ben Trudgett was awarded the Services to Sport trophy. Cobar’s Australia Day event coordinator John Martin said it’s […]
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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 […]