2026
Cobar Little A’s announces their 2025 club champions
Cobar Little Athletics Club marked the end of their 2025 season with a presentation night at the Cobar Bowling & Golf Club on Monday. The Boys Overall Point Scorer for the 2025 Season winner was Alfie Toomey with Halle Egan earning the Girls Overall Point Scorer trophy. This year’s Encouragement […]
Local landholders’ consternation over conservation
Consternation is growing among local landholders who have received approval to clear their land but are now being hit with stop-work and rehabilitation orders. Jillian Prince, at Lachlan Downs in the south of the shire, said they had followed the required approval land clearing processes on their property as directed […]
Cobar High students will be keeping a check on the wethers
Cobar High School’s Ag students have once again signed up for the NSW School Merino Wether Challenge, supported by Australian Wool Innovation (AWI), in partnership with various stud breeder associations. The annual challenge aims to broaden students’ learning experience and is an engaging hands-on program (much different from classroom learning) […]
Bandits’ bowlers dismantle Cowboys
Back Door Bandits delivered a dominant performance with both bat and ball to defeat Concrete Cowboys by 64 runs in their Cobar Senior Cricket Twenty20 clash at Ward Oval on Friday night. After winning the toss and electing to bat first, the Bandits posted 6/127 from their 20 overs, a […]
Feeling the bite at the bowser
Fuel prices—everybody is talking about them, social media is making jokes about the high prices but everyone is worrying about how high they will go. The surge in prices and fuel shortages across Australia, particularly in rural areas, comes in response to global oil disruptions as a result of the […]
Cobar gets a good report from visiting medical students
Cobar received a good report from a group of visiting medical students who were in town on Friday as part of a rural tour organised by the Rural Doctors Network (RDN). The RDN organises three Go Rural trips each year and takes university students to visit rural medical facilities and […]
Pink wins extra time thriller
The Indoor Soccer competition grand final took place last Monday night at the Cobar Youth & Community Centre with the Pink team finishing as eventual winners. The mixed competition for players 13 years plus attracted plenty of interest with four teams making up the 2025/2026 competition. Teams played 13 games […]
Stage is set for tomorrow’s battle of the Touch giants
The Battle of the Giants will take place tomorrow night in Round 9 of the Opens Mixed Touch competition at Ward Oval. The two unbeaten teams of the competition, Makos and Blossoms, will finally meet in the last game of the regular competition with the winner of this match to […]
COOSH kids to get a new, purpose-built play space
Demolition work has commenced this week on the former Kubby House Child Care building as part of an exciting project to transform the space into a dedicated facility for Cobar Outside of School Hours Care (COOSH). The project for Cobar Shire Council has been made possible with $1,317,405 funding from […]