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Locals ready to light up for Christmas
Cobar is lit up with cheerful Christmas displays and our discerning judges are almost ready to cast their eyes over this year’s entries in The Cobar Weekly’s Christmas lights competition. Competition coordinator Tahnee Tomek said the quality of displays gets better each year. “These days it’s not just about the […]
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Deb Fryer recognised for 40 years of service to Diocese
After 40 years of service to the Wilcannia-Forbes Diocese as a teacher, principal and most recently a consultant, local Deb Fryer had decided it’s time to move on. A very well-known face at St John’s Primary School, Deb started in 1978 as a classroom teacher and for the next 30 years […]
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Funding bonanza for community spaces
Cobar Shire Council has secured a good slice of the almost $6.5million recently awarded to the Barwon Electorate from the NSW Government’s Stronger Country Communities Fund. Council is to receive $488,340 in total with $345,280 allocated to build the next stage of the Drummond Park Adventure Playground while $142,520 will […]
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Miners Memorial plan progresses
Chairman of the Cobar Miners Memorial Project Barry Knight reports the Cobar community has been very generous over the past six months with donations to help see the project come to fruition. He said the committee’s major fundraiser of selling pavers (which closes at the end of this month) has […]
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Cobar Cadets celebrate 25 years of working with local youth
The Cobar 221 Cadets celebrated their 25th anniversary of operating a youth service over the weekend with a formal Dining In night on Saturday and a Fun Day on Sunday. The well attended Dining In event at the Services Club on Saturday night was supported by the attendance of Colonel […]
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New doctor keen to experience Cobar’s laid-back lifestyle
The Cobar Primary Health Care Centre (CPHCC) last week welcomed a new doctor to the surgery. Dr Afshin Farajollahi and his wife Mona recently arrived in Cobar from Queensland where Dr Afshin had been working as a GP in Rockhampton. The couple are originally from Iran where Dr Afshin did […]
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Services Club elects a new board at extraordinary meeting
The Cobar Services Club has elected a new board, headed up by returned serviceman Bryan Sylvester, at the club’s extraordinary meeting last Wednesday. The extraordinary meeting had been called due to the resignation of the nine new board members who were elected at the club’s annual general meeting on October […]
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Concerns container deposit scheme isn’t ready for rollout
Labor MP Daniel Mookhey is concerned far western NSW residents have been forgotten in regards to the new container deposit scheme (CDS). Mr Mookhey said to date, no collection points have been announced for the far west and only two collection points have been announced in western NSW – Wellington […]