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.
Axel Fairfull, Nicholas Hodges, Henry Knight and Harry Cousins competed at the Western NSW Swimming in Dubbo last Thursday. Axel and Henry have qualified to go on and compete at State Level. Axel will swim six events, the Individual Medley, 400m freestyle and 100m freestyle, breaststroke, backstroke and butterfly in […]
A career change opportunity that present-ed itself to Bethany Smith just over 12 months ago has recently helped her to land a new, exciting role. Starting out as an administration trainee with Cobar Shire Council in January 2021, which gave her on-the-job training and involved stud-ying a Certificate III in […]
A 21 year old man was arrested and charged at Cobar Police Station on Monday afternoon after he used an imitation gun to threaten another person. Police seized the gel blaster pistol (which resembles a Glock handgun) from a home in Wetherell Crescent at 4.20pm after executing a search warrant […]