Fall decorating relies on veggies
Fall is a busy time for decorating, second only to Christmas, and the period when vegetables are valued more for their beauty than their flavor. Back when America was largely rural, bringing in the harvest was cause for celebration. Corn stalks were ...
 6.0K - Oct. 30, 2009; scored 210.0 A 'Well-Dressed Home' complements the closet
NEW YORK Are you a T-shirt-and-jeans person with a chintz living room, or someone who loves the structure of a suit but wakes up in a shabby chic bedroom? The decorating world is shifting toward a streamlined look that, at the very least, compleme...
5.0K - Oct. 30, 2009; scored 253.0 Modern serving
COOS BAY The phrase modern grocery shopping and dining may conjure images of organic produce and conveyer-belt sushi bars. But on Wednesday afternoons at the Nancy Devereux center, it looks like volunteers refilling iced teas for homeless people, w...
4.2K - Sep. 26, 2009; scored 263.0 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 214.0 EYE ON GOVERNMENT
Today Bandon Planning Commission 7 p.m., council chambers, city hall, 505 Highway 101; regular meeting. Coquille Valley Hospital District 7:15 a.m., dining room, hospital, 940 E. Fifth St.; regular meeting. Coos County Transit Advisory Committe...
1.8K - Sep. 24, 2009; scored 139.0 EYE ON GOVERNMENT
Today Lakeside Water District 4 p.m., district office, 1000 N. Lake Road; special meeting to consider the dismissal or hear complaints against an individual. Coos Bay City Council 6 p.m., council chambers, 500 Central Ave.; special meeting to e...
2.0K - Sep. 23, 2009; scored 157.0 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 214.0 Mettings
Tuesday, Sept. 22 North Bend City Council 7:30 p.m., council chambers, city hall, 835 California St.; executive session on litigation. Wednesday, Sept. 23 Lakeside Water District 4 p.m., district office, 1000 N. Lake Road; special meeting to co...
2.1K - Sep. 22, 2009; scored 148.0 The joke s on us with Informant!
The exclamation point in the title is your first clue that Steven Soderbergh s intentions are more than a little askew in The Informant! Then you notice Matt Damon s helmet of hair, his pouf of a mustache, his corny sportswear and the paunch where t...
3.8K - Sep. 18, 2009; scored 214.0 Chandler future is on shaky ground
COOS BAY ” One of the last tenants to leave The Chandler Hotel before workers boarded up its ground-floor windows was Rita Todd. Owner of Design Renaissance, an interior design business, Todd had operated out of a storefront on Second Str...
5.6K - Sep. 17, 2009; scored 291.0 School cutbacks uproot family
NORTH BEND - When Vince Swagerty became principal of North Bend Middle School, he thought he would stay in the area through retirement. He bought a house. His family got involved in a church. The kids joined sports teams, and his wife, Valerie, took ...
4.2K - Jun. 25, 2009; scored 208.0 Area's aviation history influenced hotel name
It's up five stories at the tip top of the Hotel North Bend facade, peeking out from beneath the faded painted hotel name. Passersby can faintly see part of it. The word Bay is visible in the lower right hand corner. It's no practical joke - the Ho...
7.0K - May. 6, 2009; scored 322.0 Yankees open new stadium with win
NEW YORK Unlike the Babe and the House he Built, these New York Yankees and their palatial new stadium were given a practice run. The Hard Rock Cafe in right field was packed at game time Friday night, a birthday party was going on in NYY Steak abo...
6.2K - Apr. 4, 2009; scored 305.0 Discontinued items can help you save
Another way to save money at the grocery store is to check out the discontinued sale racks or carts. Each store handles discontinued merchandise differently, so if you don t know where they are in your store, ask the nice folks at customer service. A...
5.1K - Mar. 31, 2009; scored 265.0 Hard times in the penthouse
The worst thing about being under house arrest isn't all of those weepy phone calls from clients who lost their life savings that my butler whines about answering. It isn't the cranky mail from senior citizens who've lost their retirement funds and h...
2.9K - Mar. 13, 2009; scored 176.0 Making room in the budget
Making room in the budget Like many people during these tough economic times, my wife, Autumn, and I have taken a hard look at our monthly budget. We know that we have to be even more careful, but we also know that we want our favorite restaurants to...
2.4K - Feb. 25, 2009; scored 205.0 Obama's inauguration brings Americans together
PHILADELPHIA From the boisterous streets of New York to the suddenly silent casinos in Las Vegas and virtually everywhere in between, Americans celebrated Barack Obama s inauguration by answering his call for national unity: They gathered together....
8.9K - Jan. 21, 2009; scored 245.0 Grants Pass man saves neighbor from fire
GRANTS PASS (AP) The alarm on his neighbor s smoke detector didn t frighten Calvin Wilhelm. After all, Wilhelm had responded to the same noise a night earlier only to discover his neighbor had burned something on the stove. On Saturday, the alarm w...
1.3K - Jan. 21, 2009; scored 186.0 Study shows more children opt to be vegetarians
Sam Silverman is co-captain of his high school football team a safety accustomed to bruising collisions. But that s nothing compared with the abuse he gets for being a vegetarian. I get a lot of flak for it in the locker room, said the 16-year-old...
6.3K - Jan. 19, 2009; scored 225.0 Bush and Obama meet with ex-presidents
WASHINGTON President-elect Barack Obama has returned to the White House for a private sit-down with President George W. Bush, less than two weeks before their official transfer of power. Obama was to meet with Bush for about 20 to 30 minutes for a ...
5.8K - Jan. 7, 2009; scored 274.0 | 
