Local families and carers who have concerns about their child’s development or behaviour were able to find out information on support and pathways open to them at two information sessions in Cobar last week. The Early Childhood Approach (ECA) sessions were presented by MacKillop Rural Early Childhood Intervention coordinators Dominique […]
St John’s School held the finals of their Public Speaking competition at the school last Wednesday. Pictured above are Year 2’s finalists Sophia Le Lievre, Michael Rogers and Xavier Foster, whose topic was ‘Country life is better than city life’. Students in other classes were tasked with discussing the benefits/disadvantages […]
While Cobar’s Running On Empty Festival (ROEF2022) next month will be “all about the cars” it will also have a focus on music. All of the live music at this year’s festival has a local connection. ROEF’s headline band, Edgecliff, who wowed Cobar audiences on New Year’s Eve at the […]
Edna Neale has been waiting a long time for “her letter from the Queen” and it arrived earlier this week (along with numerous cards and congratulatory letters) in time for Enda’s 100th birthday today. Born in Glebe in 1922, Enda came to Cobar in 1948 with her husband Bill who […]
Co-owners of Knee Slapper, Colin ‘Butch’ Eves and Wayne ‘Wap’ Prisk (who also trains him) were pretty happy with the big seven year old gelding’s performance in the Allan Wells Memorial Cobar Picnic Cup feature race on Saturday where he finished third. Despite not having a run for the past […]
Year 6 students from Cobar Public School (CPS) and St John’s School spent two days last week learning about Landcare including invasive native scrub management, erosion control and measures to prevent erosion on farms, soil types, animal handling and pest management. They also learnt about native plants and introduced species […]
Prior to the Cobar Picnic Cup five horse race meeting being held at the Dalton Park Horse Sports Complex on Saturday after-noon, another important “thoroughbred” race took place earlier that morning. The Derby, Blue Band Yearling Breeders Plate race got underway at 8am on Saturday when 593 racing pigeons were […]
The new pool season can’t come fast enough for Cobar’s new pool manager, Jim-my Neyland, who’s itching to get to work. Jimmy and fiancé Simone Knight will be taking on the management of the Cobar Me-morial Swimming Pool for the 2022/2023 season for the L&R Group who are currently contracted […]
Aurelia Metals has entered a ‘first of its kind’ partnership which will help to strengthen emergency services in regional NSW and halve the time for first respond-ers to reach those in need. Aurelia has joined with the NSW Rural Fire Service (RFS) and the NSW State Rescue Board to provide […]
Plans to expand the Brennan Centre and build three new self-contained units were discussed at the Cobar Senior Citizens Amenities Organisation (also known as the Brennan Centre Committee) annual general meeting last week. The Brennan Centre Committee is made up of volunteers and is responsible for oversee-ing the Brennan Centre […]
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