Cobar High School students will bring the massive hit movie Legally Blonde to the stage next month. The 2001 film grossed more than US$140million at the box office and has since been made into a musical. Year 11 students Angela Shepherd and Laine Ellicott lead the cast with Angela playing […]
Cobar is gearing up for the Running On Empty Festival in October, with event co-organiser Ben Hewlett estimating around 2,000 visitors are coming for the weekend. Running On Empty, filmed in 1982, is described as one of the most iconic Australian car movies ever made. It features Mike, played by […]
In the current dry times there have been several calls for the Newey and the Old Res to be cleaned out and deepened before the next lot of rain comes. It appears however that deepening the Newey is not feasible for a number of reasons. Cobar Shire Council’s manager of […]
The Cobar area has now been declared as being in ‘intense drought’ according to the NSW Department of Primary Industries latest seasonal report. With limited rainfall recorded last month, 100 per cent of the state has been drought declared with 15 per cent of it now in ‘intense drought’. And […]
CatholicCare (previously CentaCare) held a barbecue outside the Library last Wednesday to raise awareness of National Homelessness Week. Homelessness Week is held annually and is coordinated by Homelessness Australia to raise awareness of people experiencing homelessness, the issues they face and the action needed to achieve enduring solutions. Local CatholicCare […]
Cobar Junior Rugby League Club has won the 2018 Country Rugby League (CRL) Western Region Grassroots Club of the Year award. Club president Simone Knight was also named the CRL Western Region Volunteer of the Year with Mrs Knight collecting the two awards at a CRL awards dinner in Sydney […]
A quick ‘true or false’ quiz about technology offered to parents and carers at a cyber safety seminar in Cobar last week revealed that there’s plenty to learn about keeping our kids safe in the cyber world. NSW Police Liaison Officer Senior Constable Marty Paice, who presented to the Think […]
Local woman Sheena Geppert, who’s a farmer and knows first hand about the hardships of this drought, is working with the Cobar Mental Health Network to hold A Night for Our Farmers. Sheena was recently invited to go along to one of the Mental Health Network’s meetings by her friend, […]
The Generocity Church has come up with a “small idea” that might go a long way to helping farmers in drought. The Cobar Campus of the Generocity Church has joined with its fellow 13 campuses around NSW asking for donations of $100 supermarket vouchers. Pastor Matt Rendell from Narromine said […]
“The Next Crop” forum held in Cobar last Thursday may not have had a large turnout, however the organisers were pleased with the “quality” feedback they received. Facilitated by The Land newspaper, ‘The Next Crop’ forums are described as “a growing conversation where good ideas are gathered and shared about […]
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