Cobar Public School recently upgraded their garden and courtyard area with the assistance of Peak Gold Mine, Redi.E and Bunnings Dubbo. The space includes new musical and educational equipment. Pictured last week at the school looking over the finished product are Peak Gold Mine’s Samantha Lloyd, Cobar Public School’s Donna […]
A second group of Cobar High School students has graduated a work preparation training course at the CSA Mine. The Year 11 students have attended the mine site one day per week for the past 10 weeks to complete the Work Preparation Skills Course. Students completed nine mining competencies, took […]
At 11am on November 11, 1918 the guns fell silent on the Western Front in France and Belgium and, after four years of hostilities, World War I ended. At 11am on Monday, 101 years after the event, a crowd gathered at Drummond Park to mark Remembrance Day and they too […]
Fire & Rescue NSW Station 256 has recently taken delivery of a new weapon that will be lethal when it comes to fire fighting. The brigade members this week have undergone training on the former Public Order and Riot Squad vehicle which was gifted to Fire & Rescue from the […]
Five local Girl Guides and their leaders recently had a fun weekend away in Sydney so the girls could get some boating experience to earn their Guides Trefoil 1 and 2 badges for canoeing. Milla Davey, Lexi Hodges, Elizabeth Curtis, Saffy Deighton and Cora McKervey learnt about canoes and kayaks […]
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 […]
Parents and children spent the morning with visiting kinesiologists Brendan and Gail O’Hara at the Cobar Mobile Children’s Services playgroup session on Monday. The O’Haras travel the country and, in particular to regional areas, running sound healing and early childhood workshops that aim to create and strengthen neural networks in […]
The NSW Government’s Drought Hub and the Federal Government’s Golden Wattle Department of Human Services mobile services centres were in Cobar on Friday to bring a range of information, in particular information about drought assistance. Pictured above is local grazier Dick Roberts talking to Rural Assistance Authority staff at the […]
Local fire fighters were hindered from doing their job properly last week when they were called to a house fire. Fire and Rescue NSW Station 256 deputy captain Alex Lennon said the brigade received a call regarding a house fire in Elizabeth Crescent at approximately 3pm last Tuesday. Mr […]
Two more rural Cobar women have joined the NSW Government Department of Primary Industries Hidden Treasures Honour Roll. Well known Canbelego area grazier Sheena Geppert and journalist Bessie Thomas from near Emmdale, were named on the 2019 Hidden Treasures list for the contributions they have made to the rural community. […]
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