2023
Sound Chapel wins Heritage award
Cobar’s Sound Chapel was announced among the winners of this year’s Heritage Trust Awards. It is the second Heritage Trust Award win for Cobar in as many years, with The Great Cobar Museum restoration taking out the Built Heritage and Judges’ Choice Awards last year. At this year’s awards, presented […]
Win puts Roosterettes at the top of the table
The Cobar Roosterettes have shot to the top of the Castlereagh Ladies League Tag competition ladder following their comprehensive 24-0 win over visitors Baradine at Tom Knight Memorial Oval on Saturday. The Cobar side is in fine form having won three out of the four games they’ve played this season. […]
Young Roosters celebrate a few good wins over Tigers
The Cobar Roosters Junior Rugby League teams played in Nyngan on Saturday for Round 2 of the Dubbo & District Junior Rugby League Competition with Cobar’s minis sides joining them to play their only away game for the season. Cobar had a big 50-20 win in their Under 16’s match […]
Local returns to open her beauty business in Cobar
Emma Miller, who has worked in the beauty industry for over 14 years, is obsessed with all things skin and wellness, and has recently opened her own business in Cobar, Bare Beauty Skin & Wellness. After completing her Diploma of Beauty Therapy, Emma gained extensive knowledge and experience working in […]
Whole production took just five days from go to woah
Just five days was all it took for a group of Cobar High School students to devise a plot, write a script, compose music and lyrics, and design the props and staging for their own opera. These remarkable students then performed the opera they’d called ‘Cancel Culture’, for their parents, […]
Good soccer skills run in a number of Cobar families
The Cobar Junior Soccer season is underway with Minis, Mids and Senior games played at Ward Oval on Saturday morning. And it seems good soccer skills run in some families with the Preisig, Geppert, Brown and Theakston family names popping up again and again in different divisions…Full report in this […]
Rotary to be a Welcome Ambassador
The Rotary Club of Cobar will take on the mantle of being a welcoming ambassador to three newcomers who are looking to relocate to work in Cobar. Rotary is partnering with Work+Stay, a social impact driven recruitment and settlement enterprise that has a focus on regional Australia. Work+Stay enterprise lead, […]
Cobar Camels thump Gulargambone to win 36-7
Cobar Rugby Union Camels travelled to Gilgandra on Saturday to take on Gulargambone (Gular) in Round 2 of the Western Plains Rugby Union competition and, after an indifferent start, Cobar ran away with the game winning 36 to 7. Fullback Marika Tuilau (Marika) displayed a touch of class with a […]