The Cobar Youth and Community Centre was officially opened on Tuesday and it’s quickly looking like the refurbished ‘Youthie’ will be a popular place to hang out. The centre has been refurbished thanks to $2.1 million in joint funding from the NSW and Australian Governments. NSW Member of the Legislative […]
Organisers blown away with success of ROEF2022 If success can be measured in compli-ments, thank yous, attendance and memo-rable experiences, then the Running On Empty Festival (ROEF2022) held in Cobar over the past week was most definitely a success! Festival organiser, John de Bruin, said over-all he was really happy […]
A local commemorative service for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II was held at Drummond Park on Monday afternoon led by local Greg Martin. Mr Martin said he thought it only fitting that the Cobar community have the opportunity to be able to pay their respects to the Queen. Addressing the […]
The Cobar Roosters will meet the Gil-gandra Panthers in the Christie & Hood Castlereagh Rugby League First Grade grand final this Saturday after a sensational 32-18 win over the Narromine Jets on Sat-urday in Narromine. The Roosters spoiled the Narromine club’s party who were looking to have a trifecta of […]
Cobar High School held an Employment & Community Services Expo at the school yesterday with 30 exhibitors from a wide variety of career (and volunteer) vocations taking part. Staff from local businesses, Cobar Shire Council, mining companies, Tradies, the Commonwealth Bank, TAFE, the University of Sydney, Australian Defence Force, the […]
Edna Neale has been waiting a long time for “her letter from the Queen” and it arrived earlier this week (along with numerous cards and congratulatory letters) in time for Enda’s 100th birthday today. Born in Glebe in 1922, Enda came to Cobar in 1948 with her husband Bill who […]
While there may have not been a Fashions on the Field competition at the Cobar Picnic Races on Saturday there were however a number of contenders for “Best Dressed” including this group of friends captured by our photographer: Riley O’Leary, Olivia Deighton, Lisa Williamson, Maggie O’Connor and Georgia Paul.
Cobar’s newly installed Poppy Fence on the Open Cut, which pays tribute to the 600 people (approximately) from Cobar who enlisted to serve in World War I, was offi-cially opened on Saturday. The idea for the fence came from locals Bar-ry and Ginny Knight with Barry the driving force behind […]
Generous community support will help a group of Cobar High School students to compete at the Science and Engineering Challenge Regional Championships in New-castle. Funding from the Peak Gold Mine and the Rotary Club of Cobar, along with the NSW Department of Education (Regional Industry Education Partnerships program), will help […]
A medical “cavalry” is on its way to Cobar to help with a COVID outbreak at the Lilli-ane Brady Village aged care facility. The nursing home, owned and managed by Cobar Shire Council, went into lockdown last week after a number of residents and staff test-ed positive to COVID. As […]
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