It’s been a big weekend of activities in Cobar with the Grey Mardi Gras, Festival of the Miners Ghost and Cobar Yabbies 50th Reunion activities all taking place. Pictured in main photo above are Graeme and Emma Barton, who were part of the Coath Family group who won the best entry in Saturday’s street parade; above right is Abby Fairfull, Karen Lennon, Bridgette Mackay and Emily Miller at the Stomp, Jive & Bump Dinner Dance on Friday night at the Services Club; centre right are Matilda McIver, Lucy Scott and Jordan Warren at the Gig on the Grass on Saturday night at the Ailsa Fitzsimmons Memorial Oval; and bottom right are Mr and Miss Mardi Gras, Shaun and Toni Morse from Mudgee. See more photos from the Grey Mardi Gras dinner dance and street parade on Page 2, the Gig on the Grass and Festival of the Miner’s Ghost Mining and Trade Expo on Page 23.
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 […]
Four Cobar Country Women’s Association (CWA) members with winning entries in this year’s The Land Cookery Competition will progress to judging at Group level. The local judging of this year’s entries in the annual cooking competition took part on Saturday at the CWA Rooms in Becker Street with Haylee Prince […]
It was all smiles last week at the Kubby House Child Care Centre after the centre and staff were given a high assessment rat-ing by the Department of Education. Kubby House underwent an Assessment and Rating (A&R) process at the beginning of the month and received a ‘Meeting NQS’ (National […]