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Sheep fundraiser raises $21,000

Local businessman Chris ‘Dido’ Deighton’s sheep sale fundraiser has raised $21,000 for the Macquarie Home Stay facility in Dubbo. “That’s very good for not doing very much,” Dido modestly told The Cobar Weekly. There was a great response from the community with landholders donating sheep, Chris Clark and Peter Miller […]

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Cowboys fall narrowly short in run chase

Mudgee emerged victorious by 14 runs over the Cobar Cowboys in a tight Western Zone Plate final one-day match at Dubbo’s Victoria Park No 1 Oval on Sunday. Despite a strong fightback from the Cowboys, who came close to pulling off a mammoth 252 run chase, Mudgee’s all-round performance and […]

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Exploring the watering holes of the west

  The Pub Route, a soon to be released tourism brochure, invites travellers to take a pub crawl to explore some of the west’s most iconic pubs. The booklet is an initiative of the Far North West Joint Organisation (FNWJO) and covers the shires of Cobar, Bourke and Walgett. The […]