2026

Powerlifting champion named Sports Person of the Year

Powerlifting champion, Ethan McLeod was named Cobar’s Sports Person of the Year at Monday’s Australia Day awards ceremony. Runner, Pearl Blackburn earned the Kerrigundi Junior Sports Person award and Cobar Netball Association Life Member Sherrin Wharton was presented with the Services to Sport award. Ethan collected the Australia Day honour […]

2026

CATS bring the heat for Aust Day event

There was a great turnout of 19 senior athletes and two juniors for the 2026 Australia Day Triathlon events on Monday at the Cobar Memorial Swimming Pool. Organised by the Cobar Athletics & Triathlon Squad (CATS), the main event, a 300m swim, 10km ride and 2km run tested the athletes […]

2026

First time competitors claim CATS handicap title

First time competitors, Jasper Waters, Xavier Foster and Michael Arnold, claimed a win in the Cobar Athletics & Triathlon Squad’s (CATS) handicapped triathlon event on Sunday. The trio, competing as the XJM team, finished the Try-A-Tri course (200m swim/5km ride/2km run) in 35 minutes and 13 seconds  to take the […]

2026

SCG glory for a Cobar cricketer

It’s not often that you see a Cobar cricketer’s name up on the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG) scoreboard, but if you were at the ground on December 18, you would have been able to read Nicola Harbison’s. The SCG was the venue where Nicola and her Western Outlaws team took […]

2026

Recognising good in our community

Australia Day awards recognise the good deeds that are being done in our community over the past year as well as dedicated service to our community over many years. This year six locals have been nominated for the Citizen of the Year award and five young people have been put […]

191225

A Grade crowned Squalleyball champions

A Grade have claimed the 2025 Squalleyball crown with a 4-1 win over their archrivals, Reserves, in last Wednesday night’s grand final at the Youthie. And they did it without their “king” Colby Lawrence, a veteran of the sport, who was declared medically unfit prior to the all important match. […]