ODFW continues Chetco River closure
The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife is extending the current angling closure on the Chetco River upstream of Highway 101 until further notice. The season was expected to reopen today, but will remain closed to protect spawning fall Chinook. Pa...
 3.0K - Nov. 7, 2009; scored 57.0 Cheers & Jeers
Check it out! When you finish reading today s paper, pick up a library book and give a cheer. The Coos County Library Association is celebrating its 30th anniversary. Public libraries bring us a world of knowledge at a bargain price. Educate your own...
2.0K - Nov. 7, 2009; scored 57.0 'Fourth Kind' is a half-baked mess
The flat-lining, alien-abduction thriller The Fourth Kind offers a close encounter that buries an interesting idea under a barrage of gimmicky, carnivallike hokum. The movie s unwieldy mix of degraded pseudo-documentary footage and Unsolved Myster...
3.3K - Nov. 6, 2009; scored 57.0 Thousands of NW seabirds sickened with killer foam
PORTLAND (AP) The killer foam that hit Northwest seabirds has subsided but conservationists are worried about a death toll they say numbers in the thousands. The first algal foam that hit Washington s Olympic Peninsula in mid-September claimed more...
2.9K - Nov. 5, 2009; scored 190.0 Blanchard Irene Davis Lorsung
A Mass of Christian burial will be held for Blanchard Blanche Irene Davis Lorsung, 102, of Coos Bay, at 11 a.m., Wednesday, Nov. 4, at Coos Bay Chapel, 685 Anderson Ave. with the Rev. Karl Schray, of Holy Redeemer Catholic Church, officiating. Buri...
4.0K - Nov. 3, 2009; scored 57.0 Flocking to see a rare bird
Coos Bay got a bit of a tourism boost over the last several days, as 200 or so birders came to the bay to see a rare brown booby that is hanging out near Charleston. People came to scope out the tropical bird from places including Eugene, Portland, B...
0.6K - Nov. 2, 2009; scored 684.0 Cheers & Jeers Oct. 31
Bringing home bacon Congratulations to Coos Bay s West Coast Contractors, hired to oversee a $28 million federal job in Newport. Note to sourpusses who complain whenever out-of-towners land contracts in the Bay Area: The road of commerce runs bo...
1.8K - Oct. 31, 2009; scored 90.0 Rare bird seen in Coos Bay
The Pineapple Express normally hits the South Coast in December, but a tropical visitor alighted in Coos Bay a little early this season. Suzette Eagler of Lakeside was out crabbing with her husband Wednesday morning when she spotted a brown booby acr...
1.9K - Oct. 30, 2009; scored 378.0 Birders scope out rare visitor to bay
It's not uncommon in December for a warm Pineapple Express storm system to hit the South Coast, but this week a tropical visitor arrived in Coos Bay a little early. Suzette Eagler of Lakeside was out crabbing with her husband Wednesday morning when s...
1.9K - Oct. 30, 2009; scored 378.0 Birders scope out rare visitor to bay
It's not uncommon in December for a warm Pineapple Express storm system to hit the South Coast, but this week a tropical visitor arrived in Coos Bay a little early. Suzette Eagler of Lakeside was out crabbing with her husband Wednesday morning when s...
1.9K - Oct. 29, 2009; scored 378.0 Deadly sea foam puzzles scientists
PORTLAND (AP) Scientists know what caused the ocean foam that has killed thousands of seabirds in Oregon and Washington, but they don t know exactly why it suddenly showed up in such deadly abundance off the Northwest coast. The organism is a singl...
3.1K - Oct. 29, 2009; scored 114.0 Migration drops a crowd of pelicans
Welcome to the pelican convention. If you ve been to the beaches lately or cruised around Coos Bay, it s been hard to miss these lumbering visitors. Thousands of brown pelicans have converged on the south and central Oregon coast, with fall migration...
1.5K - Oct. 28, 2009; scored 342.0 Coast Guard helps with sick seabirds
U.S. Coast Guard members helped rescue hundreds of crippled migratory birds on the coast Monday. The birds were ailing after being exposed to a red tide along the coasts of Oregon and Washington. A Coast Guard aircraft from Sacramento, Calif., transp...
2.1K - Oct. 28, 2009; scored 560.0 Mayors ask Obama to visit Japanese A-bomb cities
TOKYO Japanese newspapers and activists are calling for Barack Obama to become the first sitting U.S. president to visit Hiroshima or Nagasaki, the only two cities ever devastated by atomic bombs, ahead of his visit to Japan next month. The two cit...
4.4K - Oct. 27, 2009; scored 57.0 Thefts & mischief
The following are reports from police logs. Coquille Oct. 23, 11:44 a.m., police arrested a teenager on charges of theft and unauthorized entry into a vehicle at Coquille High School. Oct. 23, 1:32 p.m., a fork lift was found in a ditch and reported ...
5.4K - Oct. 26, 2009; scored 57.0 Halloween events
Haunted houses Coquille Project Graduation 7-10 p.m. Monday through Thursday, Oct. 26-29, and 7 p.m. to midnight Friday and Saturday, Oct. 30-31, Lincoln School, 10th Street in Coquille. $3 and one can of food. Benefits Project Graduation, Sho...
2.1K - Oct. 23, 2009; scored 57.0 Property owners along Rogue bemoan removal of dam
ROGUE RIVER Jan Tarantino peers over her summer patio and dock on what used to be Savage Lake, looking down at the Rogue River flowing more than 15 feet below. The dock was a fishing platform and diving board for the past 10 summers when Savage R...
5.7K - Oct. 23, 2009; scored 57.0 Halloween Hauntings
Friday The Birds 7 p.m., 229 Egyptian Theatre, Broadway Ave., Coos Bay. $5. Free Flight fundraiser. Saturday Masquerade Ball 7 p.m. to midnight, North Bend Community Center, 2222 Broadway Ave., $25 person/$40 couple. Tickets at ...
3.0K - Oct. 22, 2009; scored 57.0 Would you go mouth to muzzle?
LOS ANGELES Most pet owners would leap into action for an injured pet, even if it meant risking dog breath by going mouth-to-snout. Fifty-eight percent of pet owners 63 percent of dog owners and 53 percent of cat owners would be at least somewh...
5.9K - Oct. 21, 2009; scored 57.0 Timber sale will destroy watershed
There will be an Oregon Department of Forestry Timber Sale, Stull s Ridge No. 33, Contract No. 341-10-31, on Wednesday at 2 p.m. in the Coos District Coos Forest Patrol Crewhouse, 63612 Fifth Road, in Coos Bay (267-4136). This is an auction that goes...
2.5K - Oct. 20, 2009; scored 90.0 | 
