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Bakery serves up award winning pies

Cobar Hot Bake’s Steak Diane meat pie has won a silver medal in this year’s Great Aussie Meat Pie Competition. Their Steak Diane was second best in Australia in the Gourmet Pie category. The local bakery also won four bronze medals for their Plain Mince Pie, their Chunky Steak Pie, […]

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Bank’s big boost to the community

The Regional Australia Bank has supported more than 30 local organisations over the past year and returned more than $70,000 in funding to local community groups. Through the Bank’s Community Partnership Program (CPP), now in its 22nd year, regional Australia Bank’s funding has helped to strengthen 2,300 clubs, schools, health […]

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Air services propped up

Government surety in the form of $2 million worth of funding will ensure that Cobar’s commercial air service, along with air services for Bourke, Walgett and Lightning Ridge, will continue to operate for another year. Minister for Regional NSW, Tara Moriarty announced on Friday the Minns Labor Government would be […]

2025

CSA donates $20,000 to Brennan Centre

Cobar Brennan Centre committee members Barry Knight, Samantha Smith, Troy Knight and Colleen Boucher were pleased to recently receive a $20,000 donation from MAC Copper/CSA Mine (who was represented by employee Simone Willis). The contribution has gone towards various cosmetic projects, maintenance and helped to refurbish an existing unit at […]

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Cobar was at its Sundi Sundi best

Cobar put on its Sunday best to welcome locals and visitors to the Sundi Sundi Markets in Drummond Park on Sunday. Targeted at the thousands of visitors travelling through to the Mundi Mundi Bash music festival near Broken Hill, Cobar Shire Council hosted the Sundi Sundi Markets to entertain and […]

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Calls to stop locking up agricultural land

The NSW Government’s recent acquisition of almost 35,000 hectares of land in north west New South Wales, has raised some questions with locals. Three pastoral stations, Iona north west of Cobar, Bellenbar north west of Bourke and Innisfail, north west of Brewarrina, have recently been purchased by the State Government […]

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Cobar Picnic Races

Based at Wangaratta, Victoria, trainer Russell Green has often raced his team at meetings in western New South Wales and on Saturday he won the 1,700 metres DJW & Wells Cobar Picnic Cup with Lord Percy. Starting the $8 outsider in the Cup, Lord Percy (ridden by Zara Lewis) took […]

2025

Cobar’s debutantes of 2025

This year’s debutantes and their partners (from left to right) Henry Knight, Eli Martin, Sarah Nicholson, Ethan McLeod, Pearl Blackburn, Caleb Theakston, Bridgette Negfeldt, Sosie Barton, Joe Webster, Megan Giurin, Rhys Cull, Rori Urquhart, Jack Dunn and Jaxon Burke (at rear) and Maddison Jeffery and Rhylee Patterson (at front) with […]

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Cobar Rotary welcomes District Governor

The Rotary Club of Cobar held their annual Changeover Dinner on Saturday night at the Cobar Bowling & Golf Club with Past District 9660 Governor Bruce George in attendance. (Mr George, from Inverell, is the immediate outgoing 9660 District Governor having handed over the reins to Evan Burrell last month.) […]