Local clay target shooters Robert Thompson and Scott Brydon were named as joint winners of this year’s Australia Day Sportsperson of the Year award. Swimmer Makaila Gordon won the Kerrigundi Award and Ben Trudgett was awarded the Services to Sport trophy. Cobar’s Australia Day event coordinator John Martin said it’s […]
While many local sports are currently taking a break, the Cobar Yabbies Senior Men’s Swimming Club weekly swims have been continuing. The championships points have been shared around over the past few weeks with no one swimmer dominating the competition. In the first swim of the year on January 3, […]
Cobar residents were still cleaning up yesterday after a severe storm on Monday night dumped 10mm of rain on the town in just four minutes. The storm that directly hit Cobar just after 7pm on Monday brought with it torrential rain (20mm in total) and recorded wind gusts of 98km […]
The Cobar Memorial Swimming Pool has a new manager with Murray Flynn taking over the role on Boxing Day. Prior to coming to Cobar, Mr Flynn has worked for a number of years doing pool maintenance in West Wyalong for the L&R Group (the company which has the management contract […]
A fantastic turn out of 25 Yabbies helped the Cobar Senior Men’s Swimming Club to retain the Setts Cup on Sunday when they came up against the Nyngan Splashers club in the now annual swimming event. Held to honour the memory of former Cobar Yabbies club president, Ian Settree, this […]
The Cobar Memorial Swimming Pool reopened on Friday after urgent repairs were carried out to repair serious leaks in both pools. Cobar Shire Council’s director of corporate and community services Kym Miller, who is in charge of the council owned asset, told The Cobar Weekly on Thursday that a number […]
Cobar’s Australia Day activities yesterday got off to a quick start with the senior and junior triathlon events first off the mark on this year’s Australia Day program. Both were well attended with 33 tackling the senior course organised by the Cobar Athletics & Triathlon Squad (CATS) while there […]
Cobar Shire Council and managers of the Cobar Memorial Swimming Pool, L&R Group, have joined the Cancer Council NSW this summer to launch the Sun Sound campaign to help decrease incidences of melanoma and skin cancer in Cobar. Sun Sound is a short catchy jingle played hourly on loud speakers […]
A large rock memorial to honour the memory of two ‘larger than life’ members of the Cobar community will be officially unveiled tomorrow morning at the Cobar Memorial Swimming Pool. The memorial to Margaret and Ian ‘Setts’ Settree was a community project undertaken with permission from Cobar Shire Council and […]
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