Boat center isn't exactly breaking ground
Saturday s boat building center groundbreaking on the Empire waterfront will be atypical for several reasons. The most obvious is there s already a building there. In fact, workers already have spent time improving the facility since the city signed ...
 2.7K - Nov. 6, 2009; scored 155.0 Ex-mill site sees activity
Developers are starting to move dirt that has sat untouched for almost 20 years at the old Georgia-Pacific mill site in Coquille. The new tenants, McKay s Market and Coos-Curry Electric Cooperative Inc., have started priming more than six acres on th...
3.1K - Oct. 24, 2009; scored 239.0 SCDC receives city funds
COOS BAY The Coos Bay Urban Renewal Agency resolved a strained relationship with the South Coast Development Council by agreeing to pay it $15,625 for services in 2008-09. The agreement came after Interim City Manager Rodger Craddock and City ...
2.2K - Oct. 21, 2009; scored 711.0 City may pay SCDC invoice
The city of Coos Bay has reached a compromise with the South Coast Development Council regarding payment for services in 2008. Interim City Manager Rodger Craddock and Councilor Mark Daily met with SCDC officials Oct. 8 and tentatively agreed for the...
1.5K - Oct. 19, 2009; scored 250.0 Painting the past
COOS BAY Cargo ships may dock less frequently in Coos Bay these days, but a local artist is making sure their presence remains unfaded. Landscape designer Mike Vaughan can t resuscitate the timber industry or entice an industrial developer to town....
3.5K - Oct. 14, 2009; scored 131.0 Coos Bay gives money to small businesses
The Coos Bay Urban Renewal Agency has approved three Virtual Business Incubator grants, including one for one of its own agency members. Orcoast Music, 787 Newmark Ave., owned by city Councilor John Pundt, received $7,500 to help pay for a n...
1.0K - Oct. 10, 2009; scored 224.0 Local artist to restore mural
The city of Coos Bay will be closing the public parking lot across U.S. Highway 101 from the Egyptian Theatre to allow Coos Bay landscape designer Mike Vaughan to complete a mural restoration project. The Coos Bay Urban Renewal Agency approved a cont...
1.0K - Oct. 8, 2009; scored 131.0 Chamber still wants the city's business
The new Coos Bay visitor center is several months from completion, but the city s council could decide who runs it Tuesday. The city solicited bids from organizations and businesses interested in operating the center after the Bay Area Chamber of Com...
1.4K - Oct. 5, 2009; scored 131.0 SCDC issues remain despite new contract
COOS BAY - The city of Coos Bay agreed this week to sign a new contract with the South Coast Development Council for help in revitalizing the city s business districts. The Urban Renewal Agency will pay the SCDC up to $25,000 to help with de...
1.4K - Sep. 22, 2009; scored 275.0 Coos Bay city manager threatens mayor
COOS BAY - Coos Bay Mayor Jeff McKeown has called a special meeting to discuss the performance of the city s manager, Chuck Freeman. McKeown would not say why he wants to talk about Freeman, but at least one councilor suggested it is to fire him. McK...
5.6K - Sep. 22, 2009; scored 239.0 Eye On Government
Monday, Sept. 21 North Bend City Council ” 4:30 p.m., council chambers, city hall, 835 California St.; work session. North Bend Planning Commission ” 7 p.m., council chambers, city hall, 835 California St.; regular meeting. Coos...
1.5K - Sep. 18, 2009; scored 131.0 City plans wayside in Empire
COOS BAY The Hollering Place doesn t have a private developer, but it has a public one. The city of Coos Bay is planning to solicit construction bids to build a wayside there next month. The Urban Renewal Agency asked city staffers to bring back a ...
2.2K - Sep. 17, 2009; scored 188.0 City will spiff up concrete oasis
COOS BAY The Coos Bay Urban Renewal Agency has hired a Eugene firm to remodel the open space on South Broadway commonly known as the Ped Way. Cameron McCarthy Gilbert Scheibe beat out three other companies that submitted bids to win the $...
1.5K - Sep. 2, 2009; scored 711.0 What was Stufflebean's previous job?
Question: I want to know what Kevin Stufflebean s occupation was before he became county commissioner? Answer: Coos County commissioner Kevin Stufflebean was employed by the Oregon Department of Human Services before being elected. At DHS, as the c...
1.2K - Aug. 27, 2009; scored 131.0 Cheers and Jeers
Shiver me timbers Cheers for creative approaches to building our economic future. A boat building center in Empire can become a magnet for a quirky, hands-on variety of cultural tourism. Good hustle by Coos Bay s Urban Renewal Agency. Hey, batter ba...
1.7K - Aug. 22, 2009; scored 131.0 All hands on deck
COOS BAY The leaders of a boat building center project are eager to get it under way. Luckily, the owner of an old fishery building on the Empire waterfront is happy to oblige. The Coos Bay Urban Renewal Agency signed a three-year lease Tuesday wit...
3.1K - Aug. 22, 2009; scored 155.0 All hands on deck
COOS BAY The leaders of a boat building center project are eager to get it under way. Luckily, the owner of an old fishery building on the Empire waterfront is happy to oblige. The Coos Bay Urban Renewal Agency signed a three-year lease Tuesday wit...
3.3K - Aug. 21, 2009; scored 155.0 Local stimulus
Call it the Coos Bay stimulus package. City leaders formally broke ground on a new fire station Friday and work on a new Visitor Information Center is slated to begin this coming week. Construction jobs have been hard to come by with the slumping hou...
4.7K - Aug. 15, 2009; scored 180.0 City plans for boat center
COOS BAY The city of Coos Bay has big plans for the unused fishery complex at the end of Newmark Avenue. Once the exterior is improved and the inside remodeled, the facility could serve as a boat building center, attracting local residents as wel...
3.9K - Aug. 13, 2009; scored 155.0 Bed & Breakfast gets grant
The Coos Bay Urban Renewal Agency approved a virtual business incubator grant Tuesday for the Old Tower House Bed Breakfast in Empire. Councilor Stephanie Kramer owns the business and recused herself as other members voted in favor of the $...
0.9K - Aug. 11, 2009; scored 180.0 | 
