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Council welcomes new LBV management team
The Lilliane Brady Village once again has a full management team with the recent appointment of a Facility Manager and Clinical Care Manager. The Cobar Shire Council-owned aged care facility has been struggling to fill its management roles following the departure of its long-serving Director of Nursing, Sharon Huon, in […]
2023
Biz Association is making plans
Additional entertainment for this year’s Christmas Street Parade, cocktail networking events, business breakfasts and bringing back the business awards were among the many items discussed at the Cobar Business Association’s AGM last week. Held at the Services Club on Thursday, the meeting was well attended with a number of new […]
2023
Cobar’s Chad Buckman awarded Origin Energy Scholarship
Cobar’s Chad Buckman has won the 2023 Origin Energy Foundation Grant King Indigenous scholarship to help study a Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) degree at the University of NSW, Sydney. Head of the Origin Energy Foundation Michelle Zahra said the scholarship program was intended to address the under-representation of First Nations […]
2023
Pool contract won’t be tendered out
Cobar Shire Councillors have opted not to call for tenders for the management of the Cobar Memorial Swimming Pool but rather to extend the existing contract. Council’s director of finance and community services, Kym Miller proposed the extension to Councillors at last week’s Ordinary Council Meeting. Mr Miller said there […]
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New chef at Services Club serving traditional Chinese
The Cobar Services Club has a new chef in the kitchen with Ben Lwu opening his ‘Little Chef’ restaurant at the club last week. Ben did his two years of training at a chef school in China nearly 17 years ago before going into the family business. Since moving to […]
2023
Feral pig numbers are out of control
Farmers around the state are calling for more resources to combat a huge rise in the number of feral pigs which are destroying their properties and killing their stock. The Cobar Weekly spoke with a number of landholders across the region and all report seeing dramatic increases in pig numbers. […]
2023
New carparking area expected to be in operation soon
Cobar Shire Council will be working hard to have a new parking area (that will be available for use by free campers) established within the next two months. Council’s tourism manager Demi Smith reported to last Thursday’s Tourism Advisory Committee meeting that Council had made work on the Heritage Park […]
2023
Passing on a traditional family skill
When your surname literally translates to papermaker (or more correctly paper mill), local library staff member, Natalia Papierniak (who is of Polish origin) was well qualified to lead Cobar Shire Council’s Book Binding workshop on Sunday. The Book Binding workshop at the Cobar Youth & Community Centre on Sunday was […]