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Celebrating Cobar’s own cult classic
Planning is well underway for a unique car festival to be held in Cobar next year in conjunction with the Festival of the Miner’s Ghost. Event organiser Ben Hewlett outlined his plans for the ‘Running On Empty’ car movie festival to be held in 2018. ‘Running On Empty’ was released […]
Mining history buffs descend on Cobar for conference
The Australasian Mining History Association is holding its 22nd annual conference in Cobar this week. The week has been planned meticulously by the University of Canberra’s Dr Ken McQueen who has organised many interesting presentations as well as excursions to some of the surrounding mines and local tourist attractions. Cobar’s […]
Miners Memorial gets Federal funds
Cobar Shire Council will now be able to go ahead and build a new Miners Memorial structure in the Heritage Park, thanks to $349,777 in Federal Government funding. The funding was announced this week by Federal Member for Parkes, Mark Coulton, and is part of the Coalition Government’s Building Better […]