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Gorgeous weather for golf memorial day

  The Di McLeod Memorial Golf Day Four-Ball-Best-Ball Stableford was played in glorious sunshine on Saturday with 27 players taking part. Pat Polack and Scott Mayne, with 48 points, finished as the winners of the day followed by Julie Livingston and Alec Fraser (47 points), Karen Manns and Mark Fraser […]

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War Memorial in final planning stages

A vision to build a war memorial at Drummond Park that has been eight years in the planning, is about to become a reality. Local John de Bruin and his small band of helpers have been working with the RSL Sub Branch Cobar committee and Cobar Shire Council to build […]

2023

$250,000 urgent repairs for Cobar Pool

A recent maintenance audit on the Cobar Memorial Swimming Pool has found the facility is urgently in need of $250,000 worth of repairs. Cobar Shire Council’s general manager Peter Vlatko raised the issue at last Thursday’s Ordinary Council Meeting as a matter of urgency. In his detailed report to councillors, […]

2023

Local tradie is taking on The Push-Up Challenge

Local tradie and ‘gym junkie’ Craig Fielding will join over 100,000 Aussies tomorrow as they take up the challenge to do 3,144 push-ups in three weeks as part of The Push-Up Challenge, Australia’s largest fitness-based mental health initiative. Craig told The Cobar Weekly he was motivated to join the challenge […]

2023

Camels put up a very good fight

Despite starting with a player short for their Round 5 Western Plains Rugby Union match against the Nyngan Bogan Bulls on Friday night, the Cobar Camels were however competitive up until the late stages of the game. The Bulls did eventually finish with a 47-22 win, and Cobar finished the […]

2023

Connie Greig wins 6th Cup at Cobar

For 36 year old apprentice jockey Paul Zerafa, his two wins have been a long time coming, the latest being on Saturday at the Cobar Miners Race Club meeting on local galloper, Mr Pointer. Originally apprenticed at Kembla Grange in 2005, Zerafa rode in Trials and in 2006 spent some […]