Local businessman, shire councillor, entrepreneur and part-time rodeo rider, Chris ‘Dido’ Deighton has assembled his own rodeo team for the 2026 Cobar Rodeo. Dido has loaded his chuckwagon with 10 brave men for one of the most adrenaline-pumping and at the same time dangerous events in rodeo, bull riding. Bull […]
Harmony CSA Mine has helped improve conditions for Cobar Rotary Club volunteers by funding the construction of a new covered work area at the club’s Return and Earn processing facility. The roofed workspace was officially handed over to Rotary Club president Fr Paul Finucane by Harmony CSA General Manager Rob […]
Local wool classer Paul Evans has achieved an elite milestone in the wool industry and has been acknowledged for his 50 years of continuous wool classing service by the Australian Wool Exchange. The award honours professionals who have maintained active registration and quality assurance at the forefront of Australia’s wool […]
Cobar Shire Councillors voted to sell the Town Hall Building and adjacent car park at last week’s Ordinary Council Meeting. Councillors were presented with a feasibility report on the Town Hall with four different recommendations for Councillors to consider which included: 1. Do nothing; 2. Fund the required $1,157,000 on […]
Following “a fair bit of interest” being shown in the Grand Hotel building and adjacent former café, Cobar Shire Council has decided to call for Expressions Of Interest (EOI) to test the market’s appetite for the site. The matter of the development and sale of what could be a grand […]
Cobar Shire Council has been investigating a range of options to help address the town’s housing shortage, one of which is the potential development of a 106-home residential estate on the former Cobar Hospital site in Woodiwiss Avenue. Council purchased the now vacant land in 2022 and has prepared a […]
Former Cobar resident and artist, Seigrid Peters, who now calls Dunedin in New Zealand home, is one of the contestants on the ABC’s Portrait Artist of the Year Australia reality TV show which airs next month. Hosted by Miranda Tapsell and Luke McGregor, Seigrid is one of 54 amateur and […]
When your young child is diagnosed with a life-threatening illness like leukaemia, it’s comforting to know you have family and friends you can lean on. But for the Tatnell family, that support has stretched far beyond their loved ones, with the whole Cobar community, and others, rallying behind four-year-old Alastair […]
The future of Cobar’s historic Town Hall is expected to be the centre of discussion when Cobar Shire Council meets for its July Ordinary Meeting tomorrow. The Cobar Town Hall Feasibility Report will be presented to tomorrow’s Council meeting, with councillors set to consider the findings and determine the next […]
Just two weeks into her new role at the Lilliane Brady Village aged care home, new Facility Manager Pamela Nisbet is already talking about calling Cobar home long after her working days are over. “I’ll stay for the rest of my working life and maybe beyond,” Pamela told The Cobar […]
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