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Parkrun is back up and running
There were two runners, four walkers, five helpers/officials and one dog lined up for Cobar’s Parkrun event on Saturday morning at the Newey. The 5km weekly Saturday morning walk/run is part of a world-wide community event that encourages people to get out and get active. Parkrun is a positive, welcoming […]
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Making the most of holidays
Taking part in a Cleverclay frame decoration holiday craft activity at the Cobar Shire Library on Monday morning were Molly Fitzsimmons, Chris Florance, Queena Jiang and Zane Corfe under the supervision of library staff Natalia Papierniak and Joanne Miller. More school holiday activities were offered this week and included sand […]
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Michael doesn’t believe in sitting back and criticizing
Well-known local businessman Michael Prince is one of two candidates who have nominated for the Cobar Shire Council byelection to be held on February 26. Michael is a straight-talker who believes “if you don’t get in and have a go, you shouldn’t sit back and criticize”. He said over the […]
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Jesse aims to bring a fresh, young approach to Council
A fresh-faced, 22 year old, Jesse Cochrane Adolfson has thrown his hat in the ring as one of two candidates vying for the one va-cant Councillor position on Cobar Shire Council. Jesse drew the No 1 position on the ballot paper at the official ballot draw last Friday with the […]
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Cobar finally gets its hands on RATs
Local schools have received their alloca-tion of rapid antigen tests (RATs) in time for students and teachers to return to school next week. Around 8.2 million kits have been distributed to more than 3,000 government and non-government schools and early childhood cen-tres across the state over the past week. The […]
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Local landholders seeing improvements in invasive weeds
Cobar Shire landholders who have been working closely with Western Local Land Services (Western LLS) to improve and sustain the condition of natural resources are now beginning to see positive results from the work they’ve undertaken. The local landholders are part of a group of 25 landholders across the western […]
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Transported to Hawaii for the hols
Local music teacher Judy Toomey helped to transport a group of local youth to Hawaii last week at the Cobar Shire Library when she offered students tips on how to play the ukulele. The classes to learn to play the iconic Hawaiian instrument were offered as part of Cobar Shire […]
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Imitation firearm seized
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 […]