Cobar Brennan Centre committee’s secretary, Samantha Smith, was over the moon on Monday after receiving a $7,920 donation from MAC Copper Limited (formerly Metals Acquisition Corp) CSA Mine general manager Robert Walker. The donation will cover the centre’s grounds maintenance and landscaping costs for the coming year. MAC Copper has […]
The Thompson family (Caroline, James, Claire, Charlie and Henry) caught up with friends, Pearl Toomey and Nestor Linn, at the Churches of Cobar Carols in the Park (which was moved to the Cobar Youth & Community Centre) on Sunday. This year’s event attracted a big crowd to hear the Carols’ […]
Cobar Business Association’s Christmas Street Parade on Friday night has been labelled by locals as Cobar’s best parade ever! At an estimated 1.5km in length, with more than 50 vehicles and approximately 240 people on floats, in vehicles and on foot, we’d have to agree that it was indeed Cobar’s […]
Five new Lilliane Brady Village (LBV) staff members, who have come to Australia from India, Papua New Guinea and Nepal to work, have enabled the aged care facility to now claim a ‘fully staffed’ status. Council’s HR manager Summer Patterson said the LBV has long had to rely on agency […]
After serving as The Cobar Weekly newspaper’s president for 20 years, David Snelson will now be taking a back seat on its voluntary advisory committee. Since its inception in 1986, Cobar’s not-for-profit, community newspaper has been overseen by a committee. David’s father, Peter Snelson, was one of the paper’s founding […]
After 13 years of running Cobar Thai, owner Nandar (Amm) Soe Sein and her husband Nay Linn are now looking for a new business venture in Western Australia. It’s a bittersweet move for the pair and their two young sons because, despite having loved living in Cobar, the family feels […]
Cobar Bowling & Golf Club has distributed over $40,000 to 14 local community and sporting groups as part of it’s 2024 ClubGrants program. Pictured above is the club’s secretary/manager Jason Howell (at far left) with representatives of the recipient groups. Among the community group beneficiaries were the Brennan Centre, Cobar […]
Cobar Shire Council has recently released its State of Our Region Report which outlines council’s activities over the past four years. Commenting on the report, Mayor Jarrod Marsden said the past four years had been “a significant period for Cobar Shire and contained a raft of highs and lows”. Cr […]
A variety of projects and new innovative ideas were discussed at Cobar Shire Council’s Tourism Advisory Committee’s meeting last week. The volunteer committee meets monthly and is made up of local residents representing various community groups, sporting bodies and businesses as well as Cobar Shire councillors who all have the […]
Cobar High School Year 12 student Tiana Jones, who has aspirations of pursuing a career in the health sector, has spent her final two years of school getting a head-start on her future profession. Tiana recently completed a School Based Apprentice Traineeship which required her to do 100 days (700 […]
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