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Power outage as another storm rips through Cobar
Cobar residents sweltered on Sunday afternoon after many homes and businesses were left without power for more than an hour. Storm activity in the area on Sunday afternoon just before 4pm included a number of lightning strikes, one of which hit Essential Energy’s power lines approximately 55km east of Cobar. […]
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Company fined for worker’s death
PJL Pty Ltd has been fined $225,000 over the death of a worker at its Cobar workshop in 2014. A 30 year old diesel mechanic suffered fatal injuries when working at the company’s mechanical and engineering workshop in Cobar on May 16, 2014. The man was crushed when a load […]
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Local business to offer revolutionary EMDR therapy
Since starting her AWI Consulting business in 2010, psychologist Angela Webb has worked hard to ensure that country residents have the same access to mental health services as their city counterparts. “AWI Consulting and Psychology strives to provide rural and remote communities with a professional service by passionate registered mental […]
2017
Cobar cleans up after a massive storm
Cobar residents were still cleaning up yesterday after a severe storm on Monday night dumped 10mm of rain on the town in just four minutes. The storm that directly hit Cobar just after 7pm on Monday brought with it torrential rain (20mm in total) and recorded wind gusts of 98km […]
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Entrepreneur ambassador is passionate about Parkinson’s
Self-made entrepreneur and passionate advocate for Parkinson’s Disease research, Clyde Campbell will be Cobar’s 2017 Australia Day ambassador. Mr Clyde stated his working career as an industrial electronics apprentice in country NSW 29 years ago and now runs his own company, Machinery Automation & Robotics. His team of 70 staff […]
2017
Michael Zannes steps up into the GM’s role at Peak
New Gold Peak Gold Mines have appointed their commercial manager Michael Zannes as the mine’s interim general manager following the recent departure of Greg Bowkett. Mr Bowkett recently moved to Ontario, Canada, to take up the role of general manager at New Gold’s Rainy River site. Mr Bowkett started at […]
2017
New manager has plenty of experience with public pools
The Cobar Memorial Swimming Pool has a new manager with Murray Flynn taking over the role on Boxing Day. Prior to coming to Cobar, Mr Flynn has worked for a number of years doing pool maintenance in West Wyalong for the L&R Group (the company which has the management contract […]