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A year of loss, discovery and history
Wednesday, December 31, 2008 | No comments posted.
If years can have themes, then 2008’s theme for the Bay Area was “wreckage.”
In February, winter storms uncovered the wooden bones of a “mystery ship” at Horsfall Beach. Another shipwreck, the New Carissa, made news for much of the summer, as salvage crews carved and carried away its rusting steel.
Not all of 2008’s wreckage was so tangibly literal, or so much fun.
January
Arrest leads to man’s broken neck
Carl Foster, 57, of Coquille suffers a broken neck on Jan. 12, while being arrested by two officers in Coquille.
The police were trying to arrest Foster on menacing and criminal mischief charges, stemming from a Jan. 11 report that he broke a car’s windshield.
Foster is later taken to Sacred Heart Medical Center in Eugene, where he is placed on a ventilator.
Other January news
• Low salmon returns bring the first hint that there would be no salmon season in 2008.
• R. Paul Frasier becomes Coos County district attorney.
• The Timber Inn, a Coos Bay landmark, closes its doors for good.
• The Coos Bay school board decides to ask voters for a $59.95 million bond issue.
• In national news, Barack Obama wins a Democratic Party victory in Iowa, but Hillary Clinton captures New Hampshire, setting up a battle that will last well into the summer.
• Congress begins work on a $150 billion economic stimulus package.
• Oil prices hover around $100 per barrel.
In February, winter storms uncovered the wooden bones of a “mystery ship” at Horsfall Beach. Another shipwreck, the New Carissa, made news for much of the summer, as salvage crews carved and carried away its rusting steel.
Not all of 2008’s wreckage was so tangibly literal, or so much fun.
January
Arrest leads to man’s broken neck
Carl Foster, 57, of Coquille suffers a broken neck on Jan. 12, while being arrested by two officers in Coquille.
The police were trying to arrest Foster on menacing and criminal mischief charges, stemming from a Jan. 11 report that he broke a car’s windshield.
Foster is later taken to Sacred Heart Medical Center in Eugene, where he is placed on a ventilator.
Other January news
• Low salmon returns bring the first hint that there would be no salmon season in 2008.
• R. Paul Frasier becomes Coos County district attorney.
• The Timber Inn, a Coos Bay landmark, closes its doors for good.
• The Coos Bay school board decides to ask voters for a $59.95 million bond issue.
• In national news, Barack Obama wins a Democratic Party victory in Iowa, but Hillary Clinton captures New Hampshire, setting up a battle that will last well into the summer.
• Congress begins work on a $150 billion economic stimulus package.
• Oil prices hover around $100 per barrel.
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