Great Cobar Museum staff (including Alice Potter pictured above) have been impressed with the progress of the Coach House and Underground Mine Experience Project. With the slab poured and structural steel in place, in-ground services are now underway, and roofing and wall cladding installation has commenced. Behind the scenes, the […]
The Cobar Dust Bowl Fuel Burners car and bike club held their annual general meeting last week with Mick Haines returned as president and Perry Stylianos took on the vice president’s role. Marie Lawrence was returned as secretary along with Bree Walsh as treasurer, Nina Haines as publicity officer and […]
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.) […]
There’s been plenty of first time experiences for Paris Capell in the past year—including getting a job with Local Land Services in Cobar, joining the Cobar women’s rugby team, scoring a Global Voices Fellowship and planning a trip to Rome. Apart from the rugby, one thing has led to the […]
Fire & Rescue NSW firefighters have had a busy weekend with two call outs to attend fires. Police, the Rural Fire Service (RFS), State Emergency Services (SES) and Fire & Rescue NSW attended a truck fire around 7pm on Saturday approximately 20km south of Cobar on the Kidman Way. […]
Cobar’s Iron Ring committee chair, John Collins has been sorting through 500-odd engraved pavers and putting together the donated pavers into family groups in preparation for their laying under the Iron Ring memorial sculpture on the eastern entrance to Cobar.
The STORMCo team are back in town this week with the aim of serving the Cobar community. It’s the 27th year the staff and students from Avondale School in Cooranbong, NSW have been visiting Cobar to offer their service. Avondale School chaplain, Pastor Bethany Chapman said they love coming back […]
The Sydney Youth Orchestras (SYO) gave three performances in Cobar on Monday with school children, Cobar High’s Taiko drummers and Cobar’s Pop Up Choir getting the opportunity to perform with them. SYO are visiting seven Western NSW outback towns as part of their ambitious Big Sky Tour, which brought 65 […]
Peak Gold Mines staff had a double celebration yesterday to mark the 21st anniversary of the New Cobar Decline and the commencement of the Aurelia Metals’ operations at Great Cobar. The joint occasion was marked with a morning tea at the Great Cobar Museum, which was the former Great Cobar […]
The Great Western Gallery has recently undergone a retail revamp with the help of funding from Aurelia Metals and hard work by local gallery volunteers. Volunteer Collen Flynn, who helped with the revamp, said some water damage and the age of the premises meant that some renovations were needed. Colleen […]
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