2022

Celebrating 100 years!

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 […]

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Some of the best dressed

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.

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Cobar’s Poppy Fence officially opened

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 […]

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Community support for local STEM students

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 […]

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A medical cavalry is on its way to LBV

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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Young Cobar entrepreneur shines at business awards

Young Cobar entrepreneur, Bree Martin, was among the winners of Business NSW’s 2022 Western NSW Business Awards. Bree collected a Highly Commended award in the Outstanding Young Business Leader category at the Gala Awards event at Taronga Western Plains Zoo, in Dubbo on Friday night in front of 190 business […]

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Rotary donates over $13,000 to the community

The Rotary Club of Cobar has handed out $13,475 in donations to local community groups over the past year. Representatives of four groups collected $2,000 worth of donations at the club’s Changeover Dinner at the Cobar Bowling & Golf Club on Saturday night. They included the Cobar Weekly Association (which […]

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StormCo gang brings some holiday fun

The StormCo students and their supervisors from the Avondale School are back in Cobar this week to put smiles on the faces of Cobar residents, young and old. It’s the 30th year of the school providing their StormCo community service to NSW. This week they are running their traditional school […]

2022

Gold star for the Kubby House team

It was all smiles last week at the Kubby House Child Care Centre after the centre and staff were given a high assessment rat-ing by the Department of Education. Kubby House underwent an Assessment and Rating (A&R) process at the beginning of the month and received a ‘Meeting NQS’ (National […]