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Race that doesn’t stop the Yabbies

“The race that stops a nation” had little effect on the Cobar Senior Men’s Swimming Club competition with a good field of 14 Yabbies lining up in the starting gates last Tuesday on Melbourne Cup Day. In the opening race, the 30 metres handicapped sprint, Parker Cryer had the correct […]

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Blue shuts out Yellow in Junior game

Blue was in dominant form in Round 4 of the Junior Touch competition (9-12 years) at Ward Oval last Thursday, shutting out Yellow 6-0, for their first win of the season. Aisea Fakahua led the scoring for Blue with a hat trick of tries, while teammate Michael Rogers crossed twice […]

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Cobar community open their hearts and their wallets

A young family, who have only lived in Cobar for a short time, has been overwhelmed with the community support they have received following their baby daughter’s serious illness. Harvey Norman Cobar franchisee Tyler Wilde-Bird arrived in Cobar in February and his family—wife Savannah, their three-year-old son Myles and baby […]

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Little Alastair still has a long road to recovery

Four-year-old Alastair Tatnell faces a long road to recovery after spending the past three-and-a-half months in Sydney undergoing aggressive treatment for B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia, however his prognosis is good. Alastair and his parents, Pagan and Jesse, uprooted their lives and moved to Sydney in July so that Alastair could […]

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Makos are the Touch team to beat

Makos proved they are still the team to beat in the Opens Touch competition after once again getting the better of Blossoms in a repeat of last season’s grand final at Ward Oval on Thursday night. (The Cobar Weekly would like to correct an error in our reporting over the […]

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Council’s new sporting facility

Cobar will get a pickleball court as part of a multi-purpose sporting facility upgrade at the Cobar Youth and Community Centre. Cobar Shire Council has recently been awarded $310,010 through the NSW Government’s Active Regional Communities Package, Community Participation Stream, to upgrade the old outdoor basketball court at the centre. […]