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Sophie selected to join Rural Youth Ambassador Program
Cobar High School (CHS) vice captain Sophie Clark has been selected to join the NSW state-wide Rural Youth Ambassador Program for 2022. The 16 year old was selected among a group of 20 students from across rural and remote NSW to join the program developed by the Country Education Partnership […]
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Farewell for a friend
Long time resident Margaret Potter was given a farewell by friends at the Empire Hotel on Saturday. After calling Cobar home for the past 55 years where she and husband Ernie raised their four children, Margaret is now retiring to Toowoomba where she will be closer to her children and […]
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Cobar represents at state
CWA Cobar Branch president Colleen Boucher attended the CWA’s State Conference last week at Royal Randwick in Sydney which celebrated 100 years of CWA. Among the guest speakers at the conference were former pro surfer Lane Beachley and Shane Fitzsimmons, the Commissioner of Resilience NSW and Deputy Secretary Emergency Management. […]
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Tourism figures the best they’ve been for more than 10 years
The Cobar Visitor Information Centre (VIC) has been doing a roaring trade over the past month with their visitor statistics the best they’ve been for more than 10 years. Since the beginning of January, visitor numbers to Cobar have been climbing each month with the VIC recording 3,326 visitors to […]
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Health inquiry makes 44 recommendations
The long-awaited Parliamentary Inquiry into regional health was hand down last week with the committee making 44 recom-mendations to address the challenges facing the provision of health services in rural, regional and remote areas. The inquiry process has taken 21 months, which included 15 hearings involving 220 individual witnesses (one […]