010921

Happy 99th birthday Edna

Staff and residents at the Lilliane Brady Village helped Edna Neale celebrate her 99th birthday yesterday. Staff hung a birthday banner over door, made her a cake and, along with residents, they sang Happy Birthday. Due to the COVID lockdown Edna’s family and friends were unable to visit and help […]

010921

Jimmy gets the jab

Jimmy Neyland rolled up his sleeve on Friday for a COVID vaccination with nurse Lisa Travis at the Cobar Health Service. Staff carried out 282 vaccinations at Friday’s clinic adding to the 151 vaccinations they administered to local residents last month. Health Service Manager Mary Urquhart reports a cross section […]

2021

Home schooling continues

The NSW lockdown health orders have been extended a further week which also means that learning from home will continue for students in Cobar. Pictured is Leah Mitchell collecting her children’s school packs from Cobar Public School staff member Kylie Harvey last week. Schools are in daily contact with families […]

2021

Urgency for testing and vaccination

While the NSW Health’s website is show-ing one positive COVID case listed for Co-bar, Cobar Shire Council’s general manager Peter Vlatko said the case was however de-tected in Mudgee. As of Monday night at 8pm, the Western NSW Local Health District reports Cobar has not yet recorded a positive COVID […]

180821

Major milestone in wild dog control

Landholders involved in the Professional Wild Dog Controller (PWDC) Program have recently achieved a major milestone with the 100th wild dog removed from the landscape. The program, which is coordinated by West-ern Local Land Services, has involved six PWDCs working with local landholders to control wild dogs, as well as […]