Yankees back atop baseball world
NEW YORK They paraded around the warning track high-fiving fans, a New York Yankees victory lap nine years in the making. Just wait until Alex Rodriguez, Hideki Matsui and the other first-timers hit the Canyon of Heroes. I can t think of a better p...
 5.9K - Nov. 5, 2009; scored 193.0 Douglas County has funds for senior transportation
REEDSPORT For seniors waiting on new transportation options, more waiting may be in store. Douglas County has $310,00 in special transportation money, earmarked for use in public transportation for elderly or disabled people. It came from the ...
2.3K - Nov. 3, 2009; scored 193.0 Yankees one win from World Series title
PHILADELPHIA Getting hit by a pitch could have been the best thing that ever happened to Alex Rodriguez and the New York Yankees. Still smarting after getting plunked, Rodriguez struck back with his bat. He took the swing of a lifetime, and suddenl...
6.8K - Nov. 2, 2009; scored 249.0 Phillies and Yankees look to juice up the crowds
NEW YORK Even before the first pitch, this World Series seems souped up. Stocked full of honed home run hitters, powerful pitchers and frenzied fans plus a fast-talking shortstop fond of forecasting future results the New York Yankees and Phila...
3.8K - Oct. 28, 2009; scored 320.0 Major sports worlds collide
The notion that you can t have too much of a good thing is about to get a major test. Come Sunday, for only the second time ever, all four of North America s major pro sports leagues ” football, baseball, basketball and hockey ” will be...
4.1K - Oct. 27, 2009; scored 249.0 Stars align for World Series
NEW YORK ” All-Stars at most spots, mixed in with MVPs and Cy Young winners. A rich roster, full of World Series success. So how come the defending champion Philadelphia Phillies are such underdogs? Probably because they re facing the team tha...
4.4K - Oct. 27, 2009; scored 193.0 Reedsport nets $10K for Rainbow Plaza
REEDSPORT The Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development wants to help Reedsport spiff up a dirt lot at the east end of town. DLCD is sending the city $10,000, with Reedsport on the hook to contribute $4,050 and it must seek &...
1.7K - Oct. 18, 2009; scored 775.0 Reedsport nets $10K for Rainbow Plaza
REEDSPORT The Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development wants to help Reedsport spiff up a dirt lot at the east end of town. DLCD is sending the city $10,000, with Reedsport on the hook to contribute $4,050 and it must seek &...
1.7K - Oct. 17, 2009; scored 775.0 Bears are back in Reedsport, looking for food
REEDSPORT They re back. Autumn and the bears. The evidence shows on the daily police log. A bear was seen sitting in the roadway early Tuesday morning at Winchester Avenue and Sixth Street. A bear and cub were seen in a yard in the 200 block of Wes...
3.1K - Oct. 15, 2009; scored 775.0 Volunteers clean up crab pots
REEDSPORT A handful of boats in Oregon s crabbing fleet returned to sea last week for one last hurrah. Their quarries were the derelict pots and buoys left behind this year by commercial crab boats. During a volunteer effort held nearly seven weeks...
3.1K - Oct. 10, 2009; scored 775.0 Sign of the old times
REEDSPORT History may be repeating itself in Gardiner. The large, brown historical marker in that town was just one year old when Ray and Loraine Potter moved to Gardiner in 1952. These days it looks its age, after five decades sitting under the su...
3.0K - Oct. 9, 2009; scored 193.0 Pick the Cardinals for long playoff run
Start with big boppers Albert Pujols, Alex Rodriguez, Manny Ramirez and Ryan Howard. Throw in aces Josh Beckett and John Lackey. Spice it up with wild card Troy Tulowitzki. If this October seems more ripe than ever, there s a reason: It is. No newcom...
4.8K - Oct. 6, 2009; scored 193.0 Football Recap: Pirates lose in Portland
Marshfield couldn t protect a late lead and fell 31-25 to host Jefferson in Portland on Friday. The Pirates had the edge most of the second half, but the Democrats scored on a touchdown pass in the final three minutes and then stopped Marshfield s fi...
6.3K - Oct. 3, 2009; scored 193.0 Wall of water kills 100 people
APIA, Samoa A massive tsunami unleashed by a powerful earthquake flattened Samoan villages and swept cars and people out to sea, killing at least 99 and leaving dozens missing today. The death toll was expected to rise. Survivors fled the fast-chur...
7.6K - Sep. 30, 2009; scored 320.0 Yankees clinch AL East title
NEW YORK ” Jon Lester was knocked out by a line drive near his right knee, and Joba Chamberlain led New York Yankees over the Boston Red Sox 9-5 Friday night for his first win in 11 2 months. Alex Rodriguez homered, drove in four runs and ...
4.1K - Sep. 28, 2009; scored 193.0 Baseball: Yankees beat Red Sox
NEW YORK Jon Lester was knocked out by a line drive near his right knee, and Joba Chamberlain led New York Yankees over the Boston Red Sox 9-5 Friday night for his first win in 11 2 months. Alex Rodriguez homered, drove in four runs and tied a care...
4.1K - Sep. 26, 2009; scored 193.0 AL: Saunders shuts down Yankees
ANAHEIM, Calif. No pitcher wants a stint on the disabled list, yet it appears to have cured whatever was ailing Joe Saunders. The cortisone shot helped, too, he said, smiling. Saunders pitched into the ninth inning against a powerful Yankees lineu...
5.1K - Sep. 22, 2009; scored 193.0 Football Recap: Pirates win at Ashland
Marshfield shut down Ashland on the road 35-6 Friday night in the first of three straight road games. The Pirates defense kept Ashland out of the end zone until the final two seconds of the game, when the Grizzlies scored on a Hail Mary pass. The def...
5.6K - Sep. 19, 2009; scored 193.0 Football Recap: Braves open with win over Oakland
Reedsport opened Shane Nelson s coaching tenure with a 28-3 win over visiting Oakland on Friday. Jason Fegles had three touchdown passes for the Braves, scoring strikes of 6 yards to Ismael Osorio, 62 yards to Kole Freestone and 42 yards to Cory Chri...
5.2K - Sep. 14, 2009; scored 320.0 Speed trap label doesn't bother Reedsport police
REEDSPORT Drivers for years have called Reedsport a speed trap. And that s OK, said Reedsport Police Chief Shawn Essex, if it makes them slow down. On the busiest days, 6,400 vehicles pass through the northern city limits of Reedsport on U.S. Highw...
2.8K - Sep. 14, 2009; scored 775.0 | 
