I want to know about those whale bones
Question: I want to know more about the exposed bones in the sand on the beach near the New Carissa wreck site. Answer: The bones are from the remains of a dead California gray whale that had washed up earlier this summer, Jan Hodder, associate profe...
 1.2K - Aug. 4, 2009; scored 157.0 Marine reserves win OK
SALEM - All that's preventing Oregon from setting up the state's first two fishing-free marine reserves off the coast is Gov. Ted Kulongoski's signature. Talk to anyone involved in the process and all indications are these two reserves will sail into...
2.5K - Jun. 18, 2009; scored 218.0 House approves marine reserves
GRANTS PASS - The South Coast is one step closer to having its first marine reserve, but a Coos Bay lawmaker says if the state doesn't pay for it, it will dissolve. The Oregon House approved establishment of Oregon's first two marine reserves - inclu...
3.8K - May. 29, 2009; scored 122.0 Port forms committee for marine reserves
Coos County residents are going to get a chance to voice their opinions about marine reserves thanks to a committee facilitated by the Oregon International Port of Coos Bay. The recommendation won't go so far as designating a marine reserve off Coos ...
3.8K - May. 28, 2009; scored 193.0 Marshfield graduation June 6
Marshfield High School's graduation is set for June 6 at the school's gymnasium in Coos Bay. The graduates The Marshfield High School Class of 2009: Jacob Adamson, Ashley Akhtar, Josh Anderson, Gabe Anderson, Miranda Anderson, Diana Avila, Ella Baer,...
6.2K - May. 22, 2009; scored 122.0 Railroads chugged in and out of history
The Coos Bay jetties help the shipping industry with a safe passage route across the bar. But when the north jetty needed repairs in the late 1930s, it was a different form of transportation that benefited from the work. The U.S. Army Corps of Engine...
3.8K - Mar. 11, 2009; scored 122.0 Shipwreck payment should benefit coast
We had a perfectly good shipwreck, until the lawyers got involved. For a decade, the New Carissa sat quietly on the North Spit, sheltering starfish and attracting human gawkers. Though the initial wreck was an environmental disaster, the wreckage bec...
2.2K - Mar. 3, 2009; scored 773.0 Senator works to keep money on coast
COOS BAY Today, the Oregon Senate will begin working on the governor s transportation package, also known as the Jobs and Transportation Act of 2009. Sen. Joanne Verger plans to be there. The Coos Bay Democrat, who is a member of the Senate Transpo...
4.0K - Mar. 2, 2009; scored 237.0 Governor wants to use Carissa funds for ocean projects
FLORENCE (AP) Gov. Ted Kulongoski has proposed using the remaining $2.8 million the state received in a settlement from the New Carissa shipwreck for research projects on seafloor mapping, wave energy and marine reserves. The money could g...
2.1K - Feb. 5, 2009; scored 734.0 Extended hours draw few to NB employment office
NORTH BEND Saturdays have been slow at the WorkSource Oregon Employment Department since the agency added the extra day of service. For one whole hour on Saturday, a lone customer used a computer. Manager Kathie Creasey said about a dozen people ha...
5.6K - Jan. 19, 2009; scored 193.0 Roads aren t the only roadblock to chromite
Road deal holds up chromite mining plan. This headline is very misleading. (The World, Dec. 30) There are several far more critical hurdles than road maintenance facing Oregon Resources Corp. First, the metals commodity markets have cratered. China i...
2.6K - Jan. 13, 2009; scored 122.0 September
Coos Bay finance director loses job The city of Coos Bay fires Finance Director Janell Howard, but Oregon State Police conclude there is insufficient evidence to charge Howard with shoplifting. Despite the findings, City Manager Chuck Freeman announc...
1.3K - Dec. 31, 2008; scored 157.0 July
Horizon pullout dims airport gala Southwestern Oregon Regional Airport opens its new terminal with a gala featuring 320 invited guests. But the festivities are overshadowed by Horizon Air s announcement, just four days before, that it will discontinu...
1.4K - Dec. 31, 2008; scored 182.0 June
SOCC's Hansen controvery comes to a boil Discontent with the local community college president balloons into a full-blown controversy in June. Though President Judith Hansen has succeeded at building relations between the Southwestern Oregon Communit...
1.3K - Dec. 31, 2008; scored 202.0 A year of loss, discovery and history
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 ...
1.6K - Dec. 31, 2008; scored 219.0 So long, 2008; here s to a better 2009
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 ...
1.5K - Dec. 31, 2008; scored 182.0 Politicians have skewed priorities
Here in Oregon we have more than an 8 percent unemployment rate. We also have a governor who is against liquefied natural gas, sustained logging of our forests, and many other things, some of which could cause private employment. Each year we have le...
2.5K - Dec. 30, 2008; scored 122.0 Industrial marsh could benefit tourism and business
The former effluent pond on Coos Bay s North Spit, and the resulting winter wetlands, make great habitat for ducks and shorebirds. They always have. That should continue if possible. One local Auduboner would like to see those areas kept up as habita...
2.0K - Dec. 26, 2008; scored 122.0 Banks are not discussing bailout money
WASHINGTON It s something any bank would demand to know before handing out a loan: Where s the money going? But after receiving billions in aid from U.S. taxpayers, the nation s largest banks say they can t track exactly how they re spending the mo...
7.2K - Dec. 22, 2008; scored 219.0 Drop in scrap market delays departure of Carissa remains
The New Carissa isn t gone yet. All but a few hundred tons of the infamous shipwreck still sits piled at the Sause Bros. yard in Empire, where the scrap was offloaded from a floating barge. Titan Salvage spent the summer cutting up the rusting hulk o...
2.7K - Dec. 20, 2008; scored 1000.0 | 
