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Acknowledging Stolen Generations’ grief and suffering

An apology plaque inscribed with a sorry message to the Stolen Generations was unveiled at the Cobar Health Service on Friday morning. Cobar Health Service Manager Mary Urquhart welcomed members of the Cobar Local Aboriginal Land Council, Cobar Health Council, Cobar Hospital Auxiliary and Cobar Health Service staff to the […]

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Roosterettes’ game confidence continues to grow

Brimming with confidence after their big win last week over Coonabarabran, the Roosterettes took it to the Swanettes in their Round 6 Castlereagh league Tag match on Saturday at Tom Knight Memorial Oval. The match was a very competitive game from the outset with the young Roosterettes team showing no […]

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Museum makes list

What do the Notre Dame in Paris, the National Gallery in Berlin, the Dawn Fraser Baths in Balmain and our Great Cobar Museum all have in common? They’re all grand old buildings and all make the list of top four favourite renovation projects admired by professor of architecture and ABC […]

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WesTrac Cobar Cup stays in Cobar

Local trainer, Wayne ‘WAP’ Prisk, led in a winning double, including the Cup winner Dancing In The Sky, on Saturday at the Cobar Miners Race Club winter meeting. Sharing ownership of Dancing In The Sky and Mr Pointer with Prisk is another local Butch Eves and their success was very […]

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Trackside winter fashion and fun

A fine, sunny day helped to bring in an estimated record crowd of 1,200 for the Cobar Miners Race Club winter race meeting on Saturday. Pictured are Fashions on the Field winners: Contemporary—Krista Nardi and runner-up Leah Le Lievre (with judge Kylie Harvey and presenter Jai Silkman from Silkman Austen […]

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Hat trick for Cobar teams at Coonabarabran

The Cobar Rugby League Club scored a hat trick of wins on Saturday in Round 5 of the Castlereagh Rugby League competition at Coonabarabran. The Roosters First Graders returned to the winner’s circle after beating the Coonabarabran Unicorns 32-28, the Roosterettes trounced their League Tag counterparts 52-4 and the Juniors […]

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Rates revenue a small piece of pie

  Cobar Shire Council has recently released its 2024/2025 Annual Operational Plan (AOP) with Council expecting the year ahead will again be extremely busy with limited funds available. The AOP projects Council will receive approximately $61M in revenue (that includes grants and capital contributions) in the coming year. “The Council […]