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Bactrians head to rugby semi finals
The Cobar Bactrians women’s rugby team went down to Walgett 6-1 on Saturday in the Western Plains Rugby women’s competition game played at Ailsa Fitzsimmons Memorial Oval. Sally Schintler scored Cobar’s only try off a chip and chase effort in the final minutes of the game. Best & Fairest points […]
CPS’s Dreaming Day celebrated country and culture
Cobar Public School celebrated their annual Dreaming Day at the school last week and, while COVID restrictions meant that some of the activities ran a little bit differently this year, it certainly didn’t dampen the excitement the school community has for country and culture. Dreaming or Dreamtime represents the time […]
Mixed reactions to decision to divert Pfizer vaccinations
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian’s an-nouncement that Pfizer vaccines would be redirected from rural areas to the city has been met with a mixed reaction locally. The Premier announced last week that Pfizer vaccines would be redirected from the alloca-tions to rural areas to support Year 12 students in the Greater […]
Lotto division one prize goes to a local
Cobar’s mystery TattsLotto division one winner has been found but it’s taken a while for Carl Young to let that all sink in. The local farmer had gone about his week as usual, without realising he had a division one winning Saturday Lotto ticket stuffed in his wallet. After reading […]
Bucket fillers
St John’s School students and staff have become “bucket fillers” after being inspired by early childhood specialist, Carol McCloud’s book, ‘Have You Filled a Bucket Today: A Guide to Daily Happiness’. Each classroom has a bucket they can fill with tokens that represent acts of kindness, love, helping or being […]
Principal’s Awards
Earning Cobar High School Principal’s Awards during Term 2 were Year 7 student Sarah Nicholson, Macee Brown (Year 9), Jayden Greenwood (Year 10) and Braydee Mackay (Year 11) who are pictured above with school principal Shane Carter. Due to Covid restrictions regarding visitors to the school, the Term 2 awards […]
Division one ticket sold in Cobar
One of the seven division one winners of the TattsLotto draw 4175 on Saturday night, bought their winning entry at the Cobar Newsagency but as yet hasn’t come forward to claim their $834,643.56 prize. The Cobar Newsagency team of Oscar Punzet, Andre Van Wyk, Anni van der Westhuizen and Stephanie […]
Cobar Roosters juniors record three wins at home
Cobar Junior Rugby League hosted teams from Narromine on Saturday at Tom Knight Memorial Oval for Round 10 of the Dubbo & District Junior Rugby League competition. Cobar finished with three wins for the day, including their Under 16s side, which record-ed their first win of the season. It was […]