The Cobar Visitor Information Centre (VIC) has been doing a roaring trade over the past month with their visitor statistics the best they’ve been for more than 10 years. Since the beginning of January, visitor numbers to Cobar have been climbing each month with the VIC recording 3,326 visitors to […]
Emerging Sydney band, Edgecliff, has been booked to play at the Cobar Bowling & Golf Club this Easter and will also return in September as the headline act for the Run-ning On Empty 2022 Festival. While the band of former school mates may be based on Sydney’s northern beaches, one […]
The ABC Television’s Back Roads edition based on Cobar aired last Thursday night and received plenty of positive comments. Filmed in August 2020, the show’s host Heather Ewart outlined our town’s mining and indigenous history and showcased Cobar in a very favourable light. In interviews she conducted with a number […]
Following the huge success of Cobar’s Running on Empty Festival (ROEF) in 2018, all who attended (plus others who missed it) have been asking: When are we going to do it again? Festival coordinator John de Bruin announced on Friday that another ROEF festival would take place in 2022, from […]
Cobar local Tanya Gilbert took out the People’s Choice award at the 2018 Dust Bowl Fuel Burners Show n’ Shine event on Saturday with her 1956 Holden FJ Ute, affectionately known as ‘Poison Ivy’. The Show n’ Shine was the feature event of the inaugural Running On Empty Festival program […]
It’s hard to judge, but it’s estimated there were about 1,000 visitors here for the Festivals weekend, however it’s not hard to work out that everyone had a great time. Running On Empty Festival organisers John de Bruin and Ben Hewlett, together with their small committee, have received heaps of […]
Cobar Shire Council’s long term plans of tree planting and town beautification are set to be showcased when an expected 2,000 plus visitors arrive at the end of the month. Council’s general manager Peter Vlatko said council staff will be on call and working over the Miner’s Ghost and Running […]
One local business has been gearing up since June to ensure they are ready for the big influx of visitors expected for the Running on Empty festival later this month. Business owner Trudy Griffiths said she and the her Gumnuts Gifts & Homewares staff began planning back in May for […]
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