A wave of new work in Bandon
BANDON The rainy season won t stop the Port of Bandon from taking the next step along its riverwalk theme landscaping project. City crews will begin deconstructing the extra-wide sidewalk that runs along the north side of First Street Southwest bet...
 2.1K - Oct. 20, 2009; scored 1000.0 Bullards Bridge will get rehab work in 2010-11
BANDON The Oregon Department of Transport-ation plans to spend $3.4 million to rehab Bullards Bridge north of Bandon. The agency expects to award a contract on the year-long project in February 2010, with work to be complete in spring 2011, ac...
1.3K - Oct. 18, 2009; scored 249.0 Bullards Bridge will get rehab work in 2010-11
BANDON The Oregon Department of Transport-ation plans to spend $3.4 million to rehab Bullards Bridge north of Bandon. The agency expects to award a contract on the year-long project in February 2010, with work to be complete in spring 2011, ac...
1.3K - Oct. 17, 2009; scored 249.0 Bandon port ups pay; OKs High Dock job
BANDON The Port of Bandon s general manager will get a 7 percent raise, in part to cover costs of doing the job. The port commission has boosted Gina Dearth s pay nearly $3,100 to $47,493 per year, following an evaluation of her p...
1.6K - Oct. 3, 2009; scored 249.0 Ambulance finally has a place to call home
BANDON ” Bay Cities Ambulance crew and vehicles have a permanent home ” at last ” across U.S. Highway 101 from the Bandon Rural Fire Department s main station. Mast Bros. Towing, which operates out of the opposite e...
2.5K - Sep. 26, 2009; scored 249.0 Bandon grad opts for New Orleans
BANDON ” Former Cranberry Festival Queen Julia Braun, a 2001 graduate of Bandon High School, has joined Teach For America. She s headed for New Orleans. I decided to combine my interest in social change with my love for working with childr...
1.7K - Sep. 12, 2009; scored 1000.0 Bandon port braces for legal battle
BANDON The Port of Bandon has learned to do more with less. But in an effort to gain control of one piece of its property on the waterfront, it might have to spend more. Over the past two years, it s cut 1.5 positions. Its budget for the 2009-10 fi...
2.1K - Jun. 19, 2009; scored 249.0 Bandon gets federal money for port repairs
BANDON - The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will take an upclose look at the Coquille River jetties and come up with a plan for repairing the old L-shaped pile dike located in the river opposite the Port of Bandon offices. The work will happen thanks t...
1.7K - May. 11, 2009; scored 1000.0 Student team handles tech support
BANDON - Having a computer glitch at school? Tech Team to the rescue! The Bandon High School Tech Team isn't comprised of computer experts with years of college training. Nope, it's the school's own students who handle computer repair and maintenance...
2.7K - Apr. 17, 2009; scored 1000.0 Police nab 'Wrangler bandit' suspect
Coquille police say more than $5,000 may be missing from Coquille High School's Project Graduation fund, and they've accused a local bank robbery suspect with stealing it. The FBI and the Coquille Police Department took Coquille's Gwendolyn ...
5.8K - Mar. 6, 2009; scored 249.0 Bandon dredging will come earlier
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dredge Yaquina will sail into the Coquille River entrance in June earlier this year than past years to dredge the boating channel. Port of Bandon commissioners and local charter boat operator Wayne Butler had ale...
1.8K - Feb. 17, 2009; scored 1000.0 Weed wackers help creek, learn ecology
BANDON Most kids who enroll in science and biology classes probably expect to bury their noses in books. Not in Bandon. Trent Hatfield takes his Bandon High School students out in the field. They get their hands dirty learning about stream ecology....
1.8K - Feb. 7, 2009; scored 1000.0 Bandon port heads to court over lease
BANDON The Port of Bandon is suing to regain control of its waterfront property occupied by the Pacific Seafood Group. The company has a long-term lease on the property and big blue building that houses a retail seafood market, but port officials h...
2.0K - Feb. 6, 2009; scored 1000.0 Bandon's ambitious parks plan
BANDON Bandon s City Council has unanimously passed an ambitious parks master plan to rival that of larger cities. The unfunded plan offers choice spots with benches and picnic tables, a series of trails, viewpoint waysides, natural wildlife viewin...
4.2K - Feb. 4, 2009; scored 1000.0 Grant provides funding for design work
BANDON Pilots hoping to touch down at the Bandon State Airport could have up-to-date weather data to rely on by summer 2010, thanks to a $200,000 grant. The pass-through money from the Federal Aviation Administration to the Oregon Departme...
2.2K - Jan. 26, 2009; scored 1000.0 Bandon school looks into threats
BANDON The alarming nature of graffiti discovered on a boys bathroom wall at Bandon High School on Dec. 7 has prompted a full police investigation. Bandon Police Officer Adam Slater said there has been an ongoing problem with graffiti at the school...
1.9K - Jan. 10, 2009; scored 1000.0 Bandon port sues over waterfront land
Bandon Staff Writer BANDON The Port of Bandon Commission ended a year s worth of negotiations this week and voted unanimously to sue to regain control of a 1.34-acre chunk of the town s waterfront. The blue building on it formerly the Bandon Fish...
2.7K - Dec. 6, 2008; scored 249.0 Bandon Port sues for building
BANDON The Port of Bandon Commission ended a year s worth of negotiations this week and voted unanimously to sue to regain control of a 1.34-acre chunk of the town s waterfront. The blue building on it formerly the Bandon Fisheries processing pla...
2.6K - Dec. 6, 2008; scored 249.0 | 
