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Year 12 bows out in glamourous style

Cobar High School’s Year 12 class of 2019 marked the end of their school lives with their formal last Thursday. Pictured are Laura McLeod, Kacey Davis-Banks, Montana Tatchell, Kaitlyn Miller, Sandie Mitchell, Kelly Archer, Andrew Roberts, Raymond Dennis, Darragh McMullen, Bella Coughlan, Pheonix Webster, Holly Clarke, Dylan Morley, Angela Shepherd, […]

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Cobar’s firies step up for MND research

Cobar’s Station 256 firefighters are feeling like they are on top of the world at the moment having just completed an amazing feat that helped to raise $748,045 for Motor Neurone Disease (MND). A group of six firefighters from the Cobar station (along with Tom Martin, an honorary Station 256 […]

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Rain brings smiles all across the district

Local cockies, golfers, gardeners and pretty much everyone around the western district was all smiles after good widespread rain was recorded across the Cobar Shire over the weekend. Graziers in the northern part of the Cobar Shire fared the best measuring the most in their rainfall gauges. The Culls at […]

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Cobar celebrates our mining heritage

Justin Bruce, Brock Hamilton, Hannah Trudgett, Ryder Anderson and Cooper Trudgett tried their luck looking for buried gems at the Mini Mining Expo at the Heritage Park on Sunday morning. The expo was a new event on this year’s Festival of the Miner’s Ghost program and from the fantastic turn […]

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Cobar welcomes NSW Governor

The NSW Governor, Her Excellency Margaret Beazley AO QC, had a very busy schedule when she and husband Mr Dennis Wilson visited Cobar last week. Her Excellency and Mr Wilson met with Mayor Lilliane Brady, members of the Cobar Business Association, cheered on the Toyota Tour de OROC peloton of […]

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New plant to improve water treatment

NSW Deputy Premier John Barilaro flew into Cobar last week to officially open the town’s new state-of-the-art water filtration plant. The deputy premier joined Mayor Lilliane Brady and Minister for Agriculture and Western NSW Adam Marshall to cut the ribbon on the new plant last Wednesday. Mayor Brady praised the […]

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CHS farewells Year 12 Class of 2019

The Cobar High School Year 12 Class of 2019 was farewelled at a school assembly last Wednesday. The students finished school last week and are now preparing for the start of their HSC exams later this month. Pictured are Year Advisors Paige Jermyn and Paul Callaghan with students (front) Tanika-Star […]

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Cobar’s best businesses

Cobar’s best businesses were recognised at the Cobar Business Association’s biennial Great Cobar Business Awards ceremony held at Cobar Bowling & Golf Club last Friday. KML Industries (main picture) took out the major award for Excellence in Business. Other winners (pictured right) included Face Contracting, who were named Cobar’s Employer […]

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Charity dance champions crowned

Local firies and their dance partner wives have helped to raise around $12,000 at the Dance Factor charity fundraising night on Saturday at the Cobar Bowling & Golf Club. Of that $5,000 will go to their Cobar Fire Station 256 Climb for Motor Neurone Disease; $4,000 has been allocated to […]