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The Cobar Weekly
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Gail heads up the best delivery team
Gail Higgins is a familiar face in our community, particularly on Wednesday mornings when she’s out delivering The Cobar Weekly . You may have spotted Gail, aka ‘The Boss’ nicknamed by her LiveBetter helpers, Myshelle Gillette, Leah Mitchell and Ashley McMurtrie, as they reckon on Wednesdays it’s Gail that “calls […]
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Project underway to digitally preserve our local history
A project to digitally archive almost 20 years of the early copies of The Cobar Weekly has gotten underway. Over its almost 35 years of history, The Cobar Weekly staff has diligently kept a copy of every edition printed since the paper’s inception in February 1986. Staff however were concerned […]
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The Cobar Weekly staff farewell a long term employee
The Cobar Weekly has this week sadly farewelled long time staff member Tahnee Tomek after almost 14 years of service. Tahnee came to The Weekly from the Narromine News as a young cadet journalist in April 2006. She worked her way up to Sub editor, and has at times capably […]
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The Weekly welcomes a local joining the news team
Former local resident Michael Warren started his role as a journalist at The Cobar Weekly on Monday. Michael did all his schooling in Cobar before heading off to Sydney in the late 1990s to study and pursue a career in journalism. He recently relocated from Cairns to take up the […]
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Local news gathering boosted by grant
Federal Member for Parkes Mark Coulton last week announced that The Cobar Weekly will receive a $12,627 grant to support employee wages, after being successful in the Public Interest News Gathering (PING) program. The Cobar Weekly was one of 107 regional news outlets across the country to benefit from the […]
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The Weekly thanks members for support in a tough time
Barbara Barklimore has won a Taronga Western Plains Zoo Family Pass in our ‘Members Only’ competition. A new member who only joined up in the past month, Barb was very surprised with the news on Friday that she had won. The support of our members, particularly the interest from almost […]
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Painstaking project to preserve pieces of Cobar history
In his extensive local research, historian John Collins has found that Cobar’s history just keeps repeating itself. He said stories about droughts, problems with water, doctors leaving town and the promise of a new airline have all cropped up as regular stories in our local newspapers over time. John’s been […]
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