While Cobar’s Running On Empty Festival (ROEF2022) next month will be “all about the cars” it will also have a focus on music. All of the live music at this year’s festival has a local connection. ROEF’s headline band, Edgecliff, who wowed Cobar audiences on New Year’s Eve at the […]
Edna Neale has been waiting a long time for “her letter from the Queen” and it arrived earlier this week (along with numerous cards and congratulatory letters) in time for Enda’s 100th birthday today. Born in Glebe in 1922, Enda came to Cobar in 1948 with her husband Bill who […]
A bowls Singles Championship game was played at the Golfie on Saturday be-tween a veteran and a shark. The match between Marlene Wynd and John ‘Shark’ Daly was a good one with Wynd consistently bowling spot on for 30 of the 35 ends, which was impressive to say the least! […]
Cobar owned and trained horse, Knee Slapper, looked a bit fidgety going into the starting gate in the final race on the Cobar Picnic Races program on Saturday, the Allan Wells Memorial Cobar Picnic Cup over 1,700 metres. Knee Slapper however got the best start (pictured above at far left) […]
The previously postponed Ladies Golf Pink Day Stableford went ahead on Sunday with 18 players taking part. The winning team, Robynne Morton, Tina Gordon and Sally Bannister, finished with 40 points. Morton was the day’s individual winner with 40 points and also won a Nearest the Pin prize on the […]
Co-owners of Knee Slapper, Colin ‘Butch’ Eves and Wayne ‘Wap’ Prisk (who also trains him) were pretty happy with the big seven year old gelding’s performance in the Allan Wells Memorial Cobar Picnic Cup feature race on Saturday where he finished third. Despite not having a run for the past […]
Several birthdays were acknowledged at Cobar VIEW Club’s August meeting at the Empire Hotel last week. They included Joan Knight, who was pre-sented with flowers at the meeting for her ‘significant’ birthday by club president Enid English. Joan Wells also celebrated a ‘very signifi-cant’ birthday and flowers were delivered to […]
Year 6 students from Cobar Public School (CPS) and St John’s School spent two days last week learning about Landcare including invasive native scrub management, erosion control and measures to prevent erosion on farms, soil types, animal handling and pest management. They also learnt about native plants and introduced species […]
Prior to the Cobar Picnic Cup five horse race meeting being held at the Dalton Park Horse Sports Complex on Saturday after-noon, another important “thoroughbred” race took place earlier that morning. The Derby, Blue Band Yearling Breeders Plate race got underway at 8am on Saturday when 593 racing pigeons were […]
The new pool season can’t come fast enough for Cobar’s new pool manager, Jim-my Neyland, who’s itching to get to work. Jimmy and fiancé Simone Knight will be taking on the management of the Cobar Me-morial Swimming Pool for the 2022/2023 season for the L&R Group who are currently contracted […]
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