Local News
01 Sep 10 | Twelve enthusiastic volunteers from State Emergency Service (SES) units from across far western NSW gathered in Cobar at the weekend to undertake an intensive three-day course to learn how to effectively undertake road crash rescue operations.
01 Sep 10 | Preparation for drier times saw more than 70 people at Nymagee learn about smarter water management.
01 Sep 10 | Cobar Shire Council has placed on hold its recent controversial move to invite expression of interest for the lease of major plant and equipment items.
25 Aug 10 | Cobar Shire Council’s controversial decision to advertise the lease of its major plant items has attracted four expressions of interest.
25 Aug 10 | Tickets for Brindabella Airlines’ new Cobar to Sydney service are now available with flights set to commence from Friday September 24.
18 Aug 10 | The 26th annual NSW Variety Bash will hit the road this Sunday.
18 Aug 10 | Cobar’s St Laurence O’Toole’s Catholic Church was packed to overflowing last Thursday when hundreds of family members, friends, former teammates, work colleagues and Mayor Lilliane Brady gathered to farewell local legend ‘Boistie’ Josephson.
11 Aug 10 | The results of a meeting last week could see a Men’s Shed established in the town.
11 Aug 10 | Cobar was a refueling and meal stop last Saturday for a motley collection of veteran, vintage and pre-World War II utes driven by appropriately attired members of the Victorian Gold-fields-based Feral Sports Car Club.
11 Aug 10 | Cobar’s Memorial Services Club was placed under voluntary administration last week but it’s ‘business as usual’, according to Chamberlain SBR’s Graeme Brown.
“The club needs strong support from residents along with organisations to arrange social events,” he said.
11 Aug 10 | Cobar’s mayor Lilliane Brady has described as ‘absolutely wonderful’ last week’s news that Transport NSW has formally approved regional airline Brindabella’s licence application to operate daily, week day services between Cobar and Sydney.
04 Aug 10 | This Saturday’s (August 7) annual Country Energy Nyngan Ag Expo is shaping up as the biggest and best with more than 215 exhibitors, booking 270 sites at the Bogan River town’s showgrounds.
04 Aug 10 | Members of Cobar’s fundraising group Razamatz are back and busy organising a benefit night at the Services Club on Saturday August 28 for a special child, Mickayla Strudwick.
04 Aug 10 | Cobar families will be in for musical entertainment with bands, singing and dancing performances followed by the spectacular fireworks display at Ward Oval to celebrate the 2010 Festival of the Miner’s Ghost in October.
04 Aug 10 | An outstanding fundraising auction of sporting memorabilia at the Cobar Bowling and Golf Club last Saturday has added $16,000 to Kidney Kar No.9’s donation for kidney cancer research.
04 Aug 10 | Two weeks after Enngonia’s outback races were abandoned because of rain, the Louth Turf Club’s 52nd annual race meeting, scheduled for this Saturday, has also been cancelled due to water on the track.
21 Jul 10 | The Kidman Way between Cobar and Bourke was closed for more than eight hours last week after a truck rolled over about 20 kilometres south of Bourke.
21 Jul 10 | Quick action by young footballer Khaleb Whitehurst averted a disaster last Friday when he raised the alarm of a caravan on fire in the car park behind the Grand Hotel.
14 Jul 10 | Since drought breaking rains last summer greened the inland, record numbers of tourists have passed through or stopped-over in Cobar.
14 Jul 10 | Chinese-backed YTC Resources Ltd has announced an expanded exploration program at its promising Hera Gold and Base Metals Project at Nymagee.
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