The Cobar Bowling & Golf Club hosted a very successful Max Humphries Memorial Bowls Day on Sunday. The event paid tribute to the late Max Hum-phries, who served as club president for 28 years. There was a field of 42 bowlers (including seven players from Hillston) making up 14 teams […]
With there being not much competition for the Cobar Roosters in the Castlereagh Youth League competition this season, the Cobar Under 18s were thrilled to take to the field on Sunday for an organised game against Brewarrina. The Cobar boys came out keen and eager to play after being let […]
Four Cobar Public School students competed in the CWA Far Western Public Speaking Competition last week in Bourke. Tilly Doll and Myah Paul competed in the Year 3/4 category. Tilly received a Highly Commended award for her speech, ‘What’s in the Box’ and Myah entertained the judges with her humorous […]
Cobar High School’s Stage 5 Commerce class and their teacher Krystie Neale, visited the Cobar Police Station last week. The class is currently studying the topic of Law in Action and learning about laws and the rights and responsibilities of young people. Cobar Police Constable Tony Martin gave students an […]
St John’s students, staff and families joined the 22nd National Simultaneous Story Time (NSS) last Wednesday at the school. This year’s story was ‘Family Tree’ by Josh Pyke. NSS is held annually by the Australian Library and Information Association to promote the value of reading and literacy. One Australian book […]
Local educator, Kate Munro, is working to promote the Australian Literacy and Numeracy Foundation’s ‘Literacy is Free-dom’ campaign, which targets literacy in remote and indigenous communities and also among refugees. “Their strategy is to try and provide early literacy training to staff and intervention for children that need it,” Kate […]
Cobar Miners Race Club president Jarrod Marsden was thrilled to welcome a big crowd (estimated to be about 2,000) for the club’s Autumn race meeting on Saturday. After a few days of rain leading up to the event, the sun shone on Saturday for what Mr Marsden believes “was undoubtedly […]
Young local business owner, Bree Martin, from Envy Beauty, has been nominated for the Western NSW 2022 Business Awards, delivered by Business NSW. The awards recognise growth and entrepre-neurship and also celebrate business success across the Central West, Orana, and Far West regions. Bree has been nominated in the Outstanding […]
Charlie Taveira has joined the team at Cobar Shire Council as their new Director of Infrastructure Services. Having worked in Victoria for more than 30 years, moving interstate was something Mr Taveira and his family had been considering for some time. It was the hard lockdowns in Victoria during the […]
Before WesTrac handed over two new Caterpillar R2900G Underground Loaders to Aurelia Metals at Peak Gold Mines (PGM) on Friday, they took the opportunity for a photo shoot at the COBAR sign. (Pictured are WesTrac’s Mining Business Manager, Western Region NSW, Neil Roberts, Mayor Peter Abbott, PGM GM Craig Thomas, […]
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