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Tour de France rider joins ride to help country kids
Ten time Tour de France rider and top sprinter, Mark Renshaw, will join 76 dedicated cyclists as they ride and raise funds for country kids. The Royal Far West’s Ride for Country Kids (which was postponed from last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic) will head off from Dubbo at […]
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Race club working to improve racegoers’ experience
The Cobar Miners Race Club has been working hard to ensure racegoers will enjoy their racing experience even more thanks to a number of improvements to the club’s facilities. Club president Jarrod Marsden said a brand new toilet block will be ready for use at their May race meeting. “The […]
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Luke Anderson keen to take on challenges in his new role
The Cobar Bowling & Golf Club board has appointed their long-time employee, Luke Anderson as the club’s new secretary/ manager. Luke, who has been working at the club for the past 12 years, has been acting in the secretary/ manager’s role after the former secretary/ manager Brad Beetson left in […]
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Cobar residents enthusiastically take up the offer to chat
Cobar residents have chatted, narrated, opened up, spilled the beans, chewed the fat, chin-wagged, recounted, recalled, reported and told their unique stories as part of an Outback OUTLOUD preserving stories project. Emma Hoy and Caroline Wallace from Sig-nal Creative were in Cobar last week talking to local residents as part […]
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Landholders concerned about gas exploration
A group of 218 western area community members concerned about how proposed gas exploration of the Yathong-Ivanhoe and Neckarboo Troughs would affect their future attended a community meeting in Ivanhoe last week. Department of Planning representatives Mike Young (Executive Director of Energy, Industry and Compliance), Matthew Riley (Director of Energy […]
2021
Roosters season off to a sensational start
The Cobar Roosters ruled the roost on their home turf on Saturday at Tom Knight Memorial Oval when they claimed the 2021 Christie and Hood Castlereagh League pre-season carnival shield. In front of an appreciative home crowd the large and mobile Roosters outfit put on three dominant displays in their […]
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Lip sync artists help to raise over $12,000
The Pumpettes netball team has won back-to-back Lip Sync for Netball titles after they claimed the ‘big lips’ trophy on Saturday night at the Cobar Netball Association’s fundraiser at the Cobar Bowling & Golf Club. While the Pumpettes’ (pictured above at right) rendition of Bruno Mars’ The Lazy Song […]
2021
Our native frog looks a lot like Queensland cane toad
A frog that looked very much like a cane toad was caught in a local’s backyard last week and handed into the Western Local Land Services (Western LLS) Cobar office. Western LLS senior land services officer Brian Dohnt took delivery of the suspect amphibian on Thursday and had the job […]
2021
Club celebrates end of a very successful swimming season
The Cobar Swimming Club held their end of season presentations at the Cobar Memorial Swimming Pool last Wednesday. The 2020/2021 season has been one of the club’s most successful over past years with larger registration numbers. The Cobar club also hosted a very successful swimming carnival in December which attracted […]