While snake season usually begins around October and November in Australia, the warm weather of late has brought out snakes earlier this year in Cobar with multiple sightings of snakes over the past week. Lady golfers had to contend with three snakes on the course on Saturday, two residents came […]
One local resident, who’s just been diagnosed with her fourth lot of breast cancer, is hoping that Cobar women will be proactive when it comes to their breast health care. Larissa Johnson, who’s just 33 and has recently been diagnosed for the fourth time with breast cancer, first found a […]
There was no change to Cobar Shire Council’s leadership team at the Mayoral elections last week with Cr Peter Abbott returned as Mayor and Cr Jarrod Marsden as Deputy Mayor. Both were re-elected uncontested to their positions at Thursday’s Ordinary Council Meeting. The pair will continue to lead Council until […]
The youth of Cobar are looking like they will get the best of both worlds after Cobar Shire Council recently employed two local residents to job-share the role of Youth Of-ficer. Natalie Prisk and Stephen Gillette have been working in their roles for the past month and now that lockdown […]
The Cobar Roosters will have their name engraved on the Christie & Hood Castle-reagh Rugby League trophy as the 2021 competition winners, however club presi-dent Chris Deighton is less than happy to claim the hollow victory. Despite the keenness of Castlereagh clubs to get an on-field conclusion to the 2021 […]
After Saturday’s rain closed the golf course to all golfers, the Mixed Foursomes Club Championships were able to go ahead on Sunday with clear skies (and less dust than what golfers are used to) with 15 teams taking part. The Scratch winners for 2021 over the 27 holes were the […]
Cobar High School last week announced their newly elected school captains, Todd Polack and Joey Neale (pictured above at back with principal Shane Carter at centre). The pair were elected along with vice captains Sophie Clark and Elly-May Hand. Mr Carter said he was proud of how the students campaigned […]
With the start of school holidays this week the Cobar Caravan Park would normally be a thriving place however the COVID pandemic has taken its toll and the park has been very quiet. With the Victorian, Queensland and South Australian borders all closed and a month of lockdown, there hasn’t […]
The Return and Earn can and bottle recycling service, operated locally by Cobar Camels Rugby Club members, re-opened last Thursday after being closed for a month due to the COVID lockdown. Volunteer collector, Cairo Haronga (pictured above at left with customer Michael ‘Dog’ Lawrence), reports they have been kept busy […]
With lockdown restrictions now eased in Cobar our local Vinnies volunteers are back hard at work. The Cobar Vinnies store, which offers used clothing, accessories, books, toys, brick-a-brac, household items, sporting goods and bedding, re-opened to the public last Wednesday. Vinnies volunteer, Patti Pratt, said the store had been closed […]
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