Locals get crafty

The 2017 Shitbox Rally from Adelaide to Cairns was dirty, exhausting, offered very little home comforts and involved lots of long days driving on some of Australia’s roughest roads. David and Xenia Schraag, Cobar’s entrants in this year’s Shitbox Rally, which raises funds for cancer research, experienced all of the […]

Cobar Shire Council staff worked quickly and tirelessly last Thursday morning to rectify the damage caused by vandals last week to the new playground area at Dalton Park. “Overnight the locked amenities block has been broken into and the boxed lighting (which was the last part of the project and […]

Cobar’s inaugural Grey Mardi Gras was so good that we think we’ll do it again next year. That was the sentiment of all those present at the festival wrap-up/debriefing meeting held at the council chambers last week. Council’s project manager, Angela Shepherd, who had a hand in the running of […]