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NORTH BEND This start-up just got a big step up from the Bay Area Chamber of Commerce. As the winner of the chamber s inaugural New Business Challenge, Kayla Fletcher now has $16,000 worth of business services to support The Beauty Bar, which ...
 4.7K - Oct. 25, 2009; scored 128.0 A CUT ABOVE
NORTH BEND This start-up just got a big step up from the Bay Area Chamber of Commerce. As the winner of the chamber s inaugural New Business Challenge, Kayla Fletcher now has $16,000 worth of business services to support The Beauty Bar, which ...
4.7K - Oct. 24, 2009; scored 128.0 Chamber selects business challenge winner
NORTH BEND Kayla Fletcher s business plan for The Beauty Bar, her little salon on Virginia Avenue, ranked highly among judges during the Bay Area Chamber of Commerce s inaugural New Business Challenge. In September, the chamber called for business ...
1.8K - Oct. 21, 2009; scored 128.0 Politicians wear multiple hats
Chuck Freeman s explosive departure from the Coos Bay city manager job peppered his bosses with verbal shrapnel. Patching the wounds will take a while. That Freeman had to go is hard to dispute. Yet he somehow retained political support from three co...
2.4K - Sep. 30, 2009; scored 99.0 Back for another 'Bite'
Bite of the Bay is Wednesday evening in the Salmon Room at The Mill Casino-Hotel, and I hope to be back from my long weekend jaunt to Reno to attend. My wife and I went two years ago, and it was one of my favorite civic events that year. Not only are...
2.4K - Sep. 24, 2009; scored 99.0 Back for another Bite
Bite of the Bay is Wednesday evening in the Salmon Room at The Mill Casino-Hotel, and I hope to be back from my long weekend jaunt to Reno to attend. My wife and I went two years ago, and it was one of my favorite civic events that year. Not only are...
2.4K - Sep. 22, 2009; scored 99.0 Palate full of events
It was a short week with the holiday and all, but I wanted to let you know there are a few food related events coming along this weekend that are worth thinking about. On Saturday, there will be no shortage of events with the Cranberry Festival in B...
2.4K - Sep. 10, 2009; scored 99.0 Third parole try for man convicted in 1985 killing
KLAMATH FALLS (AP) A thin dusting of snow and a tattered yellow blanket covered Peggy Hiltons lifeless body on the bank of the Link River Trail. Across town, Mark Allen Reese walked into the Klamath Falls Police Department to report that his friend...
6.5K - Aug. 24, 2009; scored 343.0 Many gave Shots for Tots a boost
The Bay Area Rotary Club wishes to thank all who have made the Eighth-annual Shots for Tiny Tots Golf Event a success. This year's event raised more than $5,000 to continue the program for another year. Gold Corporate Sponsors : Oregon First...
1.4K - Jun. 29, 2009; scored 128.0 Tournament was a big boost for kids
We would like to thank the hole sponsors who helped make our golf tournament for the Myrtle Point High School girls basketball team at the Coquille Valley Elks on June 13 a success. Thanks Ron s Oil, Roseburg Forest Products, Coquille Valley Hospital...
1.1K - Jun. 22, 2009; scored 99.0 Care-A-Van aims to fill summer hunger gap
There's almost no end to community generosity on the South Coast when hunger is the issue. But the organizers of a new food drive have found one limiting factor when it comes to local businesses signing on to combat the endemic problem: they have too...
3.6K - May. 28, 2009; scored 99.0 Community Sports: Community Scoreboard for May 23
Bowling North Bend Lanes Fall League Champions Young at Heart Seniors Quack Pots: Larry Lieberenz, Ervin Gable, Mona Liberenz, Jerry Fagan. Alley Cats North Bend Lanes: Dottie Reynolds, Betsy Marglon, Stephanie Barrett, Sheryl Todd. Rolling Pins ...
11.9K - May. 23, 2009; scored 99.0 Impatient inspector cost everyone money
On May 13, the Reese electrician was at work on our sewer panel at Loon Lake. The inspector came. Can you wait 10 minutes? the electrician asked. It will be done. I m a busy man. I cannot wait. And off he drove, an hour and a half in any direction...
0.9K - May. 23, 2009; scored 128.0 Business Survival Boot Camp returns
Business owners who found the first Business Survival Boot Camp helpful, and those who may have missed it, will get a second chance. At the Business Survival Boot Camp, Part II, the business community will receive insight and suggestions on how to su...
1.8K - May. 9, 2009; scored 99.0 Survival boot camp returns
The business community will receive insight and suggestions on how to survive the current economy from the perspective of several sources at a Business Survival Boot Camp, Part II to be held Tuesday, May 19, at The Mill Casino-Hotel, Salmon Room East...
1.7K - May. 2, 2009; scored 99.0 At the movies
The following movies are playing at South Coast theaters: Crank: High Voltage Hitman Chev Chelios (Jason Statham) is kidnapped by a mysterious Chinese mobster. Three months later, he wakes up to discover his nearly indestructible heart has been surgi...
7.8K - Apr. 24, 2009; scored 99.0 At the movies
The following movies are playing at South Coast theaters: Adventureland During the summer of 1987, recent college grad James Brennan (Jesse Eisenberg) takes what he thinks is a going-nowhere job at his local amusement park, only to discover it s a pe...
8.0K - Apr. 17, 2009; scored 99.0 Reese Electric wins state safety award
Reese Electric Inc., of North Bend was one of 13 leaders in safety and health that were honored with awards at the 2009 Oregon Governor's Occupational Safety and Health Conference this week in Portland. A panel of industry professionals judges the aw...
0.5K - Mar. 21, 2009; scored 1000.0 New chamber board members take office
Bay Area Chamber of Commerce has added to its board of directors, selecting three people to fill vacancies this week. New members are Dana Webber of Sterling Savings Bank, Clark Walworth of The World newspaper and Randy Rema of Reese Electric....
0.3K - Mar. 14, 2009; scored 99.0 Community Sports, Fast Breaks for March 7: Run of Two Cities is March 14
The South Coast Running Club s Run of Two Cities will begin at 9 a.m. on Saturday, March 14, on Eighth Terrace, above the Mingus Park softball field in Coos Bay. The event includes a 10-kilometer run and a 5-kilometer run/walk. Both courses are very ...
3.7K - Mar. 7, 2009; scored 99.0 | 
