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Environmental management the focus of mines conference

Environment and community professionals from mines and quarries across the Central West gathered in Cobar last week for their annual conference. The theme of this year’s MEET (Mine and Extractive Environment Team) two day conference was ‘Tailings Storage Facility Management’ and included tours to the CSA and Peak Gold  mine […]

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Local Sport

No great golf scores to talk about

A field of 11 contested a Par event on Saturday in the Men’s Golf competition without any great scores to talk about. When Stewart Fraser wins the day with a score of +4, you know it’s been a pretty ordinary day. Greg Clark came second with +3 and Jay Egan […]

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Pat Polock leads the field

Pat Polack was last Wednesday’s Ladies Golf Stableford winner with 34 points.  Sally Bannister was the runner-up on 31 points and Di Greer finished up in third place with 30 points. Greer also won a Nearest the Pin prize in B Grade on the 8th hole. Fran Samios was the […]

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Small fields of golfers over the weekend

A fine weekend should have resulted in plenty of golfers enjoying the Cobar spring weather, but only a small field of four teams contested a four-ball-multiplier on Saturday while just 10 players competed in the an individual Stableford on Sunday. One of the reasons for the low numbers was that […]

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Business fundamentals

A group of 20 locals attended the Cobar Business Association’s Business Fundamentals and Grow Your Business workshops last Thursday night at the Cobar Bowling & Golf Club. Facilitated by HR consultant Simone Fletcher, who was part of the Australia and New Zealand McKinsey Top 300 Young Business Leaders program in 2018, […]

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Cobar’s best businesses

Cobar’s best businesses were recognised at the Cobar Business Association’s biennial Great Cobar Business Awards ceremony held at Cobar Bowling & Golf Club last Friday. KML Industries (main picture) took out the major award for Excellence in Business. Other winners (pictured right) included Face Contracting, who were named Cobar’s Employer […]

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Charity dance champions crowned

Local firies and their dance partner wives have helped to raise around $12,000 at the Dance Factor charity fundraising night on Saturday at the Cobar Bowling & Golf Club. Of that $5,000 will go to their Cobar Fire Station 256 Climb for Motor Neurone Disease; $4,000 has been allocated to […]