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Sound Chapel wins Heritage award
Cobar’s Sound Chapel was announced among the winners of this year’s Heritage Trust Awards. It is the second Heritage Trust Award win for Cobar in as many years, with The Great Cobar Museum restoration taking out the Built Heritage and Judges’ Choice Awards last year. At this year’s awards, presented […]
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Council closes carpark to campers
Cobar Shire Council’s general manager Peter Vlatko made a decision last week to close the council car park (behind the council building) to caravan campers. Temporary fencing was erected in the carpark last Thursday with signs reading ‘No camping on this site. Due to the inappropriate actions of previous caravanners […]
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Long process to re-open Endeavor
Cobar was buzzing with the news last week the Endeavor Mine would be sold after Polymetals Resources Ltd announced it had entered into a sale agreement with Orana Minerals. And while there was plenty of excited anticipation that new jobs would be created, Polymetals Executive Chairman Dave Sproule told The […]
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Roy romps home to win election race
Roy Butler was popularly returned as the Member for Barwon at Saturday’s State Election winning close to half of the primary vote and making history as the first Independent to hold the seat. “The numbers show that it was not a close race,” Mr Butler said of the election count […]
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Tracey wins Shell’s top customer service award
Winning awards for great customer service is something the Cobar Auto Port Shell Service Station is renowned for and the Cobar servo has just picked up another one. Cobar Auto Port staff member Tracey Fazulla has been named the Australian Customer Service Champion 2022 for Independent Shell Service Stations. The […]