ROAR, Cobar’s Rural Outback Animal Rescue/Respite service, last week joined forces with Animal Air Rescue to pull off a rescue mission, the likes of which hasn’t been seen in Cobar before. The newly formed Animal Air Rescue ser-vice (with three pilots, two planes and a dedi-cated group of animal advocates) […]
Cobar Shire Council general manager Peter Vlatko inspecting the graffiti damage at the Cobar Youth Centre yesterday morning. Mr Vlatko said a review of CCTV footage from the main street and Drummond Park area from Monday night/Tuesday morning has identified that the damage was caused by local youths. He said […]
Cobar High School last week won this year’s Outback Science & Engineering Challenge, which is part of a nationwide program presented by the University of Newcastle. The university conducts the annual STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathe-matics) Challenge event in partnership with local communities, Rotary clubs and sponsors. Through the […]
As part of local NAIDOC Week celebrations this week, the Cobar Vinnies store held a ceremony on Monday morning to recognise local Aboriginal heritage and connections by unveiling a Traditional Custodians plaque. NAIDOC Week celebrates and recognises the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and […]
The StormCo students and their supervisors from the Avondale School are back in Cobar this week to put smiles on the faces of Cobar residents, young and old. It’s the 30th year of the school providing their StormCo community service to NSW. This week they are running their traditional school […]
Cobar Library staff member Natalia Papierniak showing leather craft workshop participant Julianne Foster some ideas of how to decorate her belt on Saturday morning at the library. The library hosts a variety of craft workshops for adults once a month.
A group of 60 motor enthusiasts, with 22 cars (14 of which were historic) and six mo-torbikes took part in the very first Dust Bowl Fuel Burners (DBFB) ‘Memorial Drive’ on Sunday. The social trip to Nymagee, which is now expected to become an annual event, was held in honour […]
Local livestock producers were able to attend a sheep reproduction workshop organised by Western Local Land Services at Nullogoola near Cobar last week. Geoff Duddy from Sheep Solutions headed up the workshop which had seven attendees. Mr Duddy spoke about all aspects of the sheep reproduction cycle and explained a […]
The Cobar Iron Ringer committee met again last week to further discuss their plans for an Iron Ringer monument which aims to be a celebration of the Iron Ringer identity. The committee has been looking into the history of the Iron Ringer, a privileged title, which can only be given […]
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