Aboriginal stakeholders, landholders and Western Local Land Services (Western LLS) have been working together to pro-tect Aboriginal cultural heritage values in the Euabalong area prior to undertaking substantial weed control works. The weed control works, which were pri-marily to remove African boxthorn, mesquite and cactus, came about through the 2021-22 […]
Barry Knight’s latest community project, a Poppy Fence on the Open Cut which honours Cobar’s men and women who served in all conflicts, was installed last week by Marty Roots and Lance Hall from Simmo Signs in Dubbo with help from Laura Barnes (Aurelia Metals). Aurelia Metals along with Manuka […]
Cobar High School welcomed experimental jazz collective Microfiche to Cobar last week. Microfiche presented two student concerts, an improvisation workshop and a community concert. Students had the unique opportunity to experience music they had not heard before and engage with the musicians in an interactive workshop. The community concert was […]
Young Cobar entrepreneur, Bree Martin, was among the winners of Business NSW’s 2022 Western NSW Business Awards. Bree collected a Highly Commended award in the Outstanding Young Business Leader category at the Gala Awards event at Taronga Western Plains Zoo, in Dubbo on Friday night in front of 190 business […]
Local Barry Knight (at left) was a finalist for Volunteer of the Year at the 2021/2022 Little Athletics NSW Awards dinner held at Ettalong on Saturday night. And while he didn’t win, Barry reckons he may have “conned” retired Australian sprinter, Melinda Gainsford-Taylor (also pictured above with Barry’s son Troy, […]
The Cobar Youth Council recently took a group of 18 local youth ranging in age from 12-17 on a three day excursion to Bendigo to see a Harlem Globetrotters basketball game, which combines athleticism, theatre and comedy in their style of play. The group also got to experience the Bendigo […]
As part of their school holidays activities, the kids and their supervisors at COOSH (Cobar Out of School Hours) service paid a visit to the Cobar Museum last Thursday. The kids took part in a scavenger hunt finding pictures of people and objects both inside the museum and also in […]
Roman Rudnytsky’s recent visit to Cobar, hosted by the Cobar Arts Council, took him on a tourist trail around town. Roman visited Fort Bourke Hill Lookout for a closer look into the depths of the open cut mine taking this in with one of our rich burnt orange sunsets as […]
Nixen Osborne instructing Harlow Chaplain and Declan Sharpe at last week’s Totem Skateboarding school which was provided by the Cobar Shire Youth Council as a free activity during the school holidays. The focus of the beginners session was learning to get your balance while kids at the intermediate sessions learnt […]
CSA Mine’s newly installed ventilation fans, which can deliver twice the airflow of their predecessors, have been designed with the future in mind as the mine plans to go deeper in the coming years. CSA’s Projects Manager Tom Mackay ad-vised the set of four new primary ventilation fans came into […]
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