While pushbikes are a common form of transport used all around Europe, in Australia riding a pushbike on a 2,500km journey from Adelaide to Cairns is not many people’s preferred method of transport. That however is the plan of 34 year old, Italian-born Andrea Trivellato, who passed through Cobar last […]
Cobar High School (CHS) students had the opportunity last Wednesday to take part in a mentoring program that aims to give Indigenous high school students the skills and confidence to finish school and transi-tion into university, further education or employment. AIME (Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience) is a dynamic mentoring program […]
Former National Rugby League player and champion professional boxer, Joe Wil-liams, was in Cobar last week to deliver suicide prevention and wellbeing education workshops. Joe played for South Sydney Rabbit-ohs, Penrith Panthers and Canterbury Bull-dogs before switching to professional boxing in 2009 where he won two WBF World Jnr Welterweight […]
Cobar Shire Council copped a lot of criti-cism last week after a number of trees, in-cluding our ancient Morton Bay Fig trees in the CBD, were given a trim and others were cut down. A number of disgruntled residents took to social media to express their displeasure at what they […]
After being part of the Cobar community for the past 141 years, the Cobar Masons held their final function in Cobar on Satur-day night. For many years the Freemasonry as an or-ganisation world-wide was shrouded in secrets and mystery but a few years ago, all that start-ed to change and […]
The Rotary Club of Cobar, with a bit of help from the Cobar Girl Guides, has won an environmental award for their container recycling program. The Cobar club was recently announced as the winner of the Rotary District 9670 Preserve Planet Earth Award for the best environmental program in the […]
Jake Barrett was a proud apprentice jock-ey when he hoisted the impressive WesTrac Cobar Cup above his head after winning the Cobar Miners Race Club feature race on Saturday. Aboard the Connie Greig, Dubbo-trained Valadyium, this was the first Cup won by Barrett, who is on loan to Dubbo trainer […]
A glimpse into what goes on behind the scenes at a race meeting—Chief Steward Sarah Morrish checking the weight of jockey Angela Cooper and her gear after Cooper finished third on Jawsome in Race 4 at the Cobar Miners Race Club Autumn Meeting on Saturday. Cooper rode all six races […]
Four Cobar Public School students competed in the CWA Far Western Public Speaking Competition last week in Bourke. Tilly Doll and Myah Paul competed in the Year 3/4 category. Tilly received a Highly Commended award for her speech, ‘What’s in the Box’ and Myah entertained the judges with her humorous […]
Cobar High School’s Stage 5 Commerce class and their teacher Krystie Neale, visited the Cobar Police Station last week. The class is currently studying the topic of Law in Action and learning about laws and the rights and responsibilities of young people. Cobar Police Constable Tony Martin gave students an […]
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