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 […]
Cobar Bowling & Golf Club secretary manager Brad Beetson handed out donations to a range of local community groups under the ClubGrants scheme on Monday afternoon. Among the 12 local groups to share in a total of $23,147 were the Golfie’s men and lady bowlers and golfers, as well as […]
The COHOES Old Boys football club has started distributing the proceeds from their 2019 fundraiser football day in July. A spokesperson for the club, Lisa Travis, said both the Cobar and Ivanhoe communities will benefit from the $18,000 profit raised this year. “COHOE donated $1,000 to Cobar Girl Guides to […]
In an effort to further educate the public and dispel some of the rumours about their proposed new Great Cobar mining project, Aurelia Metals and Peak Gold Mines held more community information sessions last week. The mine offered an informal drop-in session throughout the day last Wednesday at the Cobar […]
NSW Rural Fire Service (NSW RFS) volunteers from across the Far West Team have been honoured for their longstanding commitment to the local community. NSW RFS Commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons presented 57 Long Service Medals and clasps as well as two Life Memberships to volunteers at a ceremony on Saturday in […]
A group of locals participated in an Out of the Darkness Walk at the Newey Reserve last Thursday morning. Jody McCabe, a Cobar Suicide Prevention care coordinator working with the NSW Outback Division of General Practice, coordinated the event to coincide with R U OK Day. “We had 15 people […]
Cobar Community Health staff held an information day and barbecue at Drummond Park on Friday to mark Women’s Health Week. Healthy women make for healthy families, and during Women’s Health Week, women were being reminded to make themselves and their health a priority. Women’s Health Nurse Rachael Slinger (pictured above […]
11 Cobar musicians from different eras gathered at the Services Club on Saturday night to pay tribute to one of Cobar’s finest musos, Keno Josephson, and his friends. Pictured are Sam ‘Keithy’ McBride, event organiser Gavin O’Donnell, Jamahl Hamilton, Garry ‘Blue Dog’ Josephson, Brad Wynd and Chic Simpson. As well […]
CatholicCare staff members Sharni Clark and Crystal Webster (with young Maybelle Hawkins) celebrated Child Protection Week last week. The staff cooked up a pancake feast, played hopscotch and did chalk drawings with children and spoke to members of the public about the ways to keep children in our community safe. […]
The Cobar community kicked up its heels last Thursday night to mark the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Cobar’s museum. “If this old building could talk, what a tale she’d tell!” deputy mayor Peter Abbott said of the Great Cobar Heritage Centre in his opening address. Cr Abbott and […]
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