2024

Cobar BioHub expected to be operating next year

Another local industry that will create an estimated 50 jobs and make good use of Invasive Native Scrub (INS) is expected to commence next year. Plans to establish Cobar’s BioHub were discussed at a public information session at the Cobar Bowling & Golf Club on Thursday. The BioHub facility will […]

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2024 Cobar Show was one of the best yet

Despite a dump of 52mm of rain on Friday, this year’s Cobar Show has been hailed as a resounding success. The committee scrambled and re-scheduled a number of events (including the CSA fireworks display) to Saturday and show-goers responded with a big crowd attending on Day 2.  See Pages 10, […]

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Communities come together to help out a local family

    The Cobar, Ivanhoe and wider communities came together on Saturday night at the Cobar Bowling & Golf club to fundraise and pay tribute to a “sensational man who everyone holds in high regard”, Glenn ‘Spinksey’ Spinks. Glenn’s eldest daughter Lisa Travis explained that her father suffered an aneurism […]

2024

And now it’s on with the show!

Cobar Shire Council’s new multipurpose hall at Ward Oval is expected to be finished in time for the 2024 Cobar Show next week. The multipurpose hall, which includes a new kitchen, canteen, bar, toilets, dining area and stage, is expected to be completed in time for use by the Cobar […]

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LBV at risk of closure

The introduction of new aged care regulations and cost escalations may see the Lilliane Brady Village (LBV) aged care facility closed. Federal Member for Parkes Mark Coulton met with Cobar Shire Council mayor Jarrod Marsden and general manager Peter Vlatko while he was in Cobar last week to discuss the […]

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Club decides to hold off on amalgamation

After seeing an improved bottom line over the past four months and increased patronage, Cobar Services Club members have voted to hold off on plans for amalgamation. At the club’s annual general meeting in October last year, members determined that amalgamation with a ‘parent club’ was the only viable option. […]

2024

Warm Cobar welcome for Tour de OROC

Our own Trudy Griffiths is on track to be the rider raising the most money in this year’s Tour de OROC, with an amount in the vicinity of $20,000 being donated through her efforts. “We haven’t finished the count yet, but we are pretty sure we’ve topped our total from […]

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Cobar carnival marks a milestone

  Cobar Mobile Children’s Service (CMCS) recorded a huge milestone last Thursday and threw a big Carnival-themed birthday party to celebrate their 42 years of service to the community. CMCS’s president Corey Traynor said the service had grown over the past four decades from its humble beginnings as a playgroup […]