A pile of rubbish found dumped in the skate park bowl at the Cobar Youth & Community Centre on Friday morning is becoming an all too common occurrence. Cobar Shire Council general manager, Peter Vlatko, said it was disappointing to see Council spaces, like the skate park, which are maintained […]
Continuing with the theme of locals picking Cobar’s Greatest Sporting Teams, we asked local basketballer Rob Josephson to pick a men’s basketball team for us. In his time in basketball, Rob has not only played with the best but he’s coached them also. Many of these players have reunited over […]
When Squalleyball veteran Colby Lawrence was asked to pick his Dream Team for The Cobar Weekly he said at first he was afraid, he was petrified. And then when he sat down to write up a team list, he found it hard going. “I’m going to list nine players as […]
In the absence of any current local sporting events, The Cobar Weekly has invited various sports people and commentators, to provide us with their Greatest Teams Ever. Their brief was to choose a side based on anyone they had played with or had watched play in Cobar. This Indoor Soccer […]
The plans for the upgrade of the Cobar Youth & Fitness Centre were met with lukewarm enthusiasm when they were unveiled at Cobar Shire Council’s community consultation meeting last Wednesday. With only a relatively small budget of a $1.2million grant to work with, Council’s general manager Peter Vlatko said they […]
There was an upset win in the Mixed Indoor Netball grand final last week with Benchwarmers sensationally beating The Opposition 26-25. The Opposition were the competition favourites going into last Tuesday night’s game at the youth centre. After taking a lead from the outset (which they held on to right […]
The Ladies Indoor Netball crown was claimed by Barto’s on Monday night after they comprehensively beat Hot Shots 43-21 in their grand final game. Barto’s had a number of advantages going into Monday night’s game at the youth centre. In addition to being the underdogs (Hot Shots went into the […]
Australian Diamonds Netball coach Lisa Alexander was in Cobar last week and it seems the Cobar netball community made a big impression on her. Lisa said it had been “an absolute honour and a privilege” to visit Cobar. “I was humbled by the generosity of this most beautiful community,” Lisa […]
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