2021

Bucket fillers

St John’s School students and staff have become “bucket fillers” after being inspired by early childhood specialist, Carol McCloud’s book, ‘Have You Filled a Bucket Today: A Guide to Daily Happiness’. Each classroom has a bucket they can fill with tokens that represent acts of kindness, love, helping or being […]

2021

Principal’s Awards

Earning Cobar High School Principal’s Awards during Term 2 were Year 7 student Sarah Nicholson, Macee Brown (Year 9), Jayden Greenwood (Year 10) and Braydee Mackay (Year 11) who are pictured above with school principal Shane Carter. Due to Covid restrictions regarding visitors to the school, the Term 2 awards […]

2021

Division one ticket sold in Cobar

One of the seven division one winners of the TattsLotto draw 4175 on Saturday night, bought their winning entry at the Cobar Newsagency but as yet hasn’t come forward to claim their $834,643.56 prize. The Cobar Newsagency team of Oscar Punzet, Andre Van Wyk, Anni van der Westhuizen and Stephanie […]

2021

A long established local business changes hands

Countrywide Cranes, a long established local business, has recently changed hands with Alister Ewan adding the business’ as-sets to his own Cobar Cranes operation. Countrywide Cranes proprietor Gary Grey came to Cobar as a young boy in 1964 where he went on to complete his schooling and then a Fitter […]

2021

Gas proposal scrapped for Far West area

Landholders in Far West NSW opposed to the NSW State Government’s proposal to survey for natural gas in their area are breathing a sigh of relief after the Government announced last Wednesday that the proposal won’t be going ahead. The NSW Government’s Future of Gas Statement, released last week by […]