The Cobar branch of the Isolated Children’s Parents Association (ICPA) is in danger of folding after the branch failed to get a quorum at their annual general meeting on Saturday. A not for profit group made up of volunteer parents, ICPA works to ensure that children living in rural and […]
Cobar residents can expect the hot temperatures to continue as a second week of 35 degrees plus weather is forecast. The late February heatwave will see temperatures up to nine degrees above average this week. Today is expected to reach 40 degrees while a top of 42 degrees is forecast […]
Two local businesses, Stationery Essentials and Gumnuts Gifts & Homewares, are getting behind Batyr with their ‘One Sock Wednesday’ Cobar campaign. Stationery Essentials’ manager Wendy Robinson said all money raised in Cobar for Batyr, a social enterprise that focuses on preventative education in the area of young people’s mental health, […]
Essential Energy has recently completed a major streetlight maintenance program in the Cobar Shire Council area to help ensure the ongoing performance and reliability of local public lighting. Regional manager Northern, Mark Summers, said Essential Energy’s bulk lamp replacement program was undertaken on a cyclical basis across each local government […]
Cobar Shire Council is looking to apply for one-off grant funding from the NSW Government’s $4 million Innovation Fund to install an electronic document management system. The electronic system will help council to deliver better services and better infrastructure in the local community. Member for Barwon Kevin Humphries said small […]
Workers retrenched last week from Endeavor Mine and their partners will be able to access a range of information and advice today at a Redundancy Support Session. Coordinated by the Cobar Business Association, the session today at the Cobar Bowling & Golf Club will be attended by training providers, counsellors […]
Cobar’s local weather observer, Trevor Menadue, is on the list of staff casualties to be re-deployed as part of the Bureau of Meteorology’s (BOM) strategic plan to automate regional weather stations. BOM’s media advisor Sharon Herbert said the staff cuts to 22 field offices (which includes the Cobar station) are […]
Local landholder Steve Motton has applauded proposed new police laws that would see poachers charged on the spot. Mr Motton, who runs a property on the Barrier Highway west of Cobar and has been the victim of rural crime on a number of occasions, said in his experience landholders have […]
Members of the HMAS Rankin submarine crew sailed into town last Thursday for a jam-packed three days of activities and all were thrilled with the warm reception they received. In a medieval ritual that signifies the trust between a military unit and a city, the crew of the HMAS Rankin […]
Cr Peter Yench has called for a restructure of the Far West Initiative Advisory Committee (FWIAC) in an effort to improve the sustainability of Cobar and seven other neighbouring councils. The NSW Government’s Far West Initiative was set up in August 2015 to look at ways to improve local governance, […]
Copyright © 2026 | MH Magazine WordPress Theme by MH Themes