Cobar Shire Council is in talks with a number of airlines who have shown an interest in providing air services to Cobar. The town has been without a regular air service since Rex Airlines announced last month that it would be withdrawing its Airlink Cobar-Dubbo-Sydney service. Rex made its last […]
Mine workers and medical staff are expected to be the most affected by an announcement last week that Cobar’s passenger air service is set to cease at the end of the month. Jessica Makarewitsch from the Regional Express (Rex) Corporate Communications Team confirmed on Thursday that Air Link, a wholly-owned subsidiary […]
Angela Shepherd has had a big impact on the Cobar community for the past 11 years and will be sorely missed when she and her family soon leave town. Angela came to work at Cobar Shire Council in February 2007 as their projects officer and admits she didn’t have the […]
Cobar Shire Council has secured a good slice of the almost $6.5million recently awarded to the Barwon Electorate from the NSW Government’s Stronger Country Communities Fund. Council is to receive $488,340 in total with $345,280 allocated to build the next stage of the Drummond Park Adventure Playground while $142,520 will […]
Labor MP Daniel Mookhey is concerned far western NSW residents have been forgotten in regards to the new container deposit scheme (CDS). Mr Mookhey said to date, no collection points have been announced for the far west and only two collection points have been announced in western NSW – Wellington […]
The refurbishment and fit-out of a community space in the main street will begin soon, thanks to a grant of $14,050 from Round 3 of the Federal Government’s Stronger Communities Programme. Member for Parkes Mark Coulton announced the grant last week and said the refurbishing of the unused courtyard next […]
Cobar Shire Council’s three newest councillors, Janine Lea-Barrett, Julie Payne and Chris Lehmann, have now served one year “on the job” and all agree the past year has been a real learning curve. “My first year has been exciting, frustrating, exhilarating and an education, sometimes all in the one meeting!” […]
Cobar Shire Council has been recognised for its environmental efforts with two Local Government awards. Council received the awards under the 2016/2017 Excellence in the Environment Awards program run annually by Local Government NSW which aim to recognise the outstanding achievements by NSW councils in managing and protecting the environment. […]
The Australian Communication and Media Authority (ACMA) has rejected Cobar Shire Council’s request to re-transmit Bourke’s 2WEB community radio station into Cobar. ACMA licensing officer Jackie Russell said retransmission of the Bourke 2WEB community broadcasting service to the community of Cobar was not consistent with ACMA’s current out of area […]
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