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Roosterettes assert themselves on the field

The Cobar Roosterettes scored their first win of the 2024 Castlereagh League Tag season in Round 3 on Saturday at Tom Knight Memorial Oval. They also handed their opposition, the Baradine Magpies, their first loss of the season as the Roosterettes claimed a 22-16 win. Played on a very wet […]

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CHS rise to the challenge

Cobar High School (CHS) students have for the third year in a row won the Outback Science and Engineering Challenge. (Pictured are some of the CHS team members, Sosie Barton, Tom Francisco, Rhys Cull and Sophie Bennett.) They finished with 1,401.72 points (out of a possible maximum score of 1,600 […]

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The Cobar Biohub is coming to town

It’s been talked about for some time—a Biohub that would make good use of Invasive Native Scrub (INS) in the Cobar district—and now it’s in the final planning stages. An Orana Biohub processing facility was first mooted back in 2014 and gained the support of Regional Development Australia (RDA) Orana, […]

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Camels make a promising start to season

It was a game of contrasting halves. The first half saw the Camels trying to settle into a rhythm as many of the players had trained together but never played together. Gular took advantage of their early indecision and within mere minutes of the kick off, Gular had an early […]

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2024 Cobar Show was one of the best yet

Despite a dump of 52mm of rain on Friday, this year’s Cobar Show has been hailed as a resounding success. The committee scrambled and re-scheduled a number of events (including the CSA fireworks display) to Saturday and show-goers responded with a big crowd attending on Day 2.  See Pages 10, […]