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Hamming it up on the greens

Peter ‘China’ Brien, David ‘Ooze’ Knight and Brian Ferrett were constantly one-upped by John Goonrey, Shane Carter and Darryl Jermyn on the Golfie greens on Sunday morning. Goonrey, Carter and Jermyn finished as the day’s winners and took home the ham prizes. The weekly social bowls event now offers ham […]

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Cobar Weekly welcomes new president and a new member

After serving as The Cobar Weekly newspaper’s president for 20 years, David Snelson will now be taking a back seat on its voluntary advisory committee. Since its inception in 1986, Cobar’s not-for-profit, community newspaper has been overseen by a committee. David’s father, Peter Snelson, was one of the paper’s founding […]

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Another Yabby joins Spot on Club

Kyle Roberts became part of the Yabbies ‘Spot on Club’ last week when he joined the growing list of swimmers who are recording spot on times. Roberts was the 6th swimmer this season  to chalk up a spot on time at the Cobar Senior Men’s Swimming Club’s weekly events. He […]

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Pink Kinis win back-to-back matches

Catch up games were played in the Seniors Touch competition on Thursday night with Round 6 and Round 7 matches in the 13-16 years competition played last week as a double-header. Pink Kinis and Blue Bulls both won back-to-back matches in their double-header round. Pink Kinis won their Round 6 […]

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ClubGrants assist 14 groups

Cobar Bowling & Golf Club has distributed over $40,000 to 14 local community and sporting groups as part of it’s 2024 ClubGrants program. Pictured above is the club’s secretary/manager Jason Howell (at far left) with representatives of the recipient groups. Among the community group beneficiaries were the Brennan Centre, Cobar […]

2024

Cricket’s 40 over format returns

The format of 40 over cricket returned to Ward Oval on Saturday with the Empire Billy Goats coming up against the Nymagee Magpies. Empire Billy Goats won by a dominant 136 runs, in what was a well-rounded team performance. Empire won the toss and posted a commanding total, led by […]

2024

Favourable report

Cobar Shire Council has recently released its State of Our Region Report which outlines council’s activities over the past four years. Commenting on the report, Mayor Jarrod Marsden said the past four years had been “a significant period for Cobar Shire and contained a raft of highs and lows”. Cr […]