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February '07: County cuts jobs; bomb threats plague school
Wednesday, January 02, 2008 | No comments posted.
There were no “Help Wanted” signs hanging in the windows at the Coos County Courthouse in February 2007.
Tempers flared.
Heads rolled.
By month’s end, the county roadmaster lopped dozens of roads off his maintenance list. It was all because the county commissioners were tasked with filling a $7 million budget hole when six years of federal timber subsidies ended. To fill it, 19 Sheriff’s Office workers got pink slips, as did workers in the juvenile and assessor’s departments.
“They knew they were near the bottom of the seniority list,” sheriff’s Sgt. Dave Hermann said at the time.
But that didn’t make those wadded pink slips any easier to swallow.
Across the county, law enforcers scrambled in North Bend as bomb threats sent students packing day after day. The threats, which were discovered written inside of the freshman and sophomore hall boys’ bathrooms, began appearing Feb. 15. Ultimately, school officials cracked down on all students tightening attendance and hall pass rules.
Even that didn’t thwart the joker.
There were more to come over the next two months before the game finally fizzled.
Tempers flared.
Heads rolled.
By month’s end, the county roadmaster lopped dozens of roads off his maintenance list. It was all because the county commissioners were tasked with filling a $7 million budget hole when six years of federal timber subsidies ended. To fill it, 19 Sheriff’s Office workers got pink slips, as did workers in the juvenile and assessor’s departments.
“They knew they were near the bottom of the seniority list,” sheriff’s Sgt. Dave Hermann said at the time.
But that didn’t make those wadded pink slips any easier to swallow.
Across the county, law enforcers scrambled in North Bend as bomb threats sent students packing day after day. The threats, which were discovered written inside of the freshman and sophomore hall boys’ bathrooms, began appearing Feb. 15. Ultimately, school officials cracked down on all students tightening attendance and hall pass rules.
Even that didn’t thwart the joker.
There were more to come over the next two months before the game finally fizzled.
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