Cobar’s Chad Buckman has won the 2023 Origin Energy Foundation Grant King Indigenous scholarship to help study a Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) degree at the University of NSW, Sydney. Head of the Origin Energy Foundation Michelle Zahra said the scholarship program was intended to address the under-representation of First Nations […]
Cobar Shire Councillors have opted not to call for tenders for the management of the Cobar Memorial Swimming Pool but rather to extend the existing contract. Council’s director of finance and community services, Kym Miller proposed the extension to Councillors at last week’s Ordinary Council Meeting. Mr Miller said there […]
The return of Roosterettes’ captain/coach Kayla Hasson to the field after injury bolstered the Cobar side for their Round 7 Castlereagh League Tag game against Binnaway on Saturday. Hasson’s on-field presence, along with the experience and team talk by veteran Zoë Egan (who was also back from injury) steered the […]
Cobar’s men golfers contested the annual Foursomes Championships over 27 holes on Saturday. The favorites, the two Fraser boys, Alec and Mark, were going to be a hard combination to beat if they played up to their ability. And they did with the boys beating their old man, Stewart Fraser, […]
The Cobar Services Club has a new chef in the kitchen with Ben Lwu opening his ‘Little Chef’ restaurant at the club last week. Ben did his two years of training at a chef school in China nearly 17 years ago before going into the family business. Since moving to […]
A five try burst in the space of less than 15 minutes helped the Cobar Roosters to a 42-18 win over the Binnaway Bombshells in their Round 7 Christie & Hood Castlereagh Rugby League First Grade game on Saturday. It was the club’s second win of the day in their […]
Farmers around the state are calling for more resources to combat a huge rise in the number of feral pigs which are destroying their properties and killing their stock. The Cobar Weekly spoke with a number of landholders across the region and all report seeing dramatic increases in pig numbers. […]
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