Roseburg selling off two timber tracts
Three Coos County timber tracts are on the auction block, with two being sold by Roseburg Timber Products. John Rosenthal, president of Realty Marketing/Northwest said Roseburg isn t selling out. It s just selling off smaller, scattered tracts and fo...
 1.7K - Nov. 6, 2009; scored 779.0 Community Sports: Community Scoreboard for Oct. 31
Bowling North Bend Lanes Oct. 19-25 Young at Heart Seniors Bruce Watts 242, Nick Boutin 226, Berrel Vinyard 218; Linda Nichols 216, Phyllis Hewitt 213, Susan Peck 210. Monday Super Star Juniors Joey Huffman 257, Nicholas Slowik 204, Jordan Clark ...
10.6K - Oct. 31, 2009; scored 97.0 Bandon fights the odds on police levy
Bandon officials say the day is approaching when the police department won t have enough officers to provide 24-hour protection. They are hoping taxpayers will dig deeper into their pockets to help pay for police officer salaries. Voters in the city ...
4.9K - Oct. 31, 2009; scored 61.0 Steven V. Weeks
At his request, no services will be held for Steven V. Weeks, 68, of Coquille. Steve was born Aug. 20, 1941, in Bandon and raised by his parents, Virgil and Lucile Weeks, in Green Acres, along with his brother Paul. He died Oct. 29, 2009, in Coquille...
1.6K - Oct. 31, 2009; scored 61.0 Logging activists win court battle
PORTLAND People against logging old growth forests won an Oregon Court of Appeals ruling Wednesday that struck down a state law on grounds it treats an environmental dispute differently. The case grew out of arrests in March 2005 in the Siskiyou Na...
3.0K - Oct. 29, 2009; scored 61.0 Pendleton man to buy troubled gorge hotel
PORTLAND (AP) The troubled Columbia Gorge Hotel may have found a buyer after it closed last January. Vijay Patel, who owns a small chain of hotels in Eastern Oregon and Washington state, told The Oregonian he will buy the historic hotel for more th...
2.3K - Oct. 26, 2009; scored 61.0 Study: Warm forests may yield less timber
GRANTS PASS (AP) A new study suggests warming temperatures predicted over the next century could boost tree growth on Northwest forests, but less so at lower elevations where most of the timber is and temperatures are already warm. Researchers from...
4.6K - Oct. 26, 2009; scored 370.0 Community Sports: Community Scoreboard for Oct. 24
Bowling North Bend Lanes Oct. 12-18 HIGH GAME Young at Heart Seniors Ray Nichols 215, Richard Dupret 211, NIck Boutin 204, Ray Rockwood 204; Linda Nichols 236, Julie Winn 202, Marge Novak 194. Monday Super Star Juniors Zachary Jones 222, Joey Huf...
7.0K - Oct. 25, 2009; scored 97.0 Local beach advisories lifted Friday
Health advisories for contact with marine water were lifted Friday at Bastendorff Beach County Park and Sunset Bay State Park, according to the Oregon Department of Human Services. Testing showed the contamination had subsided and the waters did not ...
2.3K - Oct. 25, 2009; scored 61.0 Community Sports: Community Scoreboard for Oct. 24
Bowling North Bend Lanes Oct. 12-18 HIGH GAME Young at Heart Seniors Ray Nichols 215, Richard Dupret 211, NIck Boutin 204, Ray Rockwood 204; Linda Nichols 236, Julie Winn 202, Marge Novak 194. Monday Super Star Juniors Zachary Jones 222, Joey Huf...
7.0K - Oct. 24, 2009; scored 97.0 Local beach advisories lifted Friday
Health advisories for contact with marine water were lifted Friday at Bastendorff Beach County Park and Sunset Bay State Park, according to the Oregon Department of Human Services. Testing showed the contamination had subsided and the waters did not ...
2.3K - Oct. 24, 2009; scored 61.0 Port's LNG site negotiations stall
COOS BAY Port officials agreed Thursday to move forward with plans to sell some property on the North Spit. More notable, perhaps, was the property transaction they all but ignored. The port commissioners agreed in principle to sell 30 acres of wet...
2.9K - Oct. 23, 2009; scored 61.0 Maintenance, not clearcutting, is wise
When is wilderness not wilderness? When it s a developed campground. LaVerne Park might be remote by some standards, but it s a popular destination. The Bureau of Land Management made the right call to remove hazardous trees and branches at the park ...
1.7K - Oct. 21, 2009; scored 61.0 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 246.0 Community Sports: Community Scoreboard for Oct. 17
Bowling Bowling North Bend Lanes Oct. 5-10 HIGH GAME Young at Heart Seniors Richard Dupret 243, Nick Boutin 233, Berrel Vinyard 220; Linda Nichols 216, Sally Ash 207, Marge Novak 199. Monday Super Star Juniors Jordan Clark 227, Joey Huffman 201, ...
9.9K - Oct. 18, 2009; scored 97.0 Community Sports: Community Scoreboard for Oct. 17
Bowling Bowling North Bend Lanes Oct. 5-10 HIGH GAME Young at Heart Seniors Richard Dupret 243, Nick Boutin 233, Berrel Vinyard 220; Linda Nichols 216, Sally Ash 207, Marge Novak 199. Monday Super Star Juniors Jordan Clark 227, Joey Huffman 201, ...
9.9K - Oct. 17, 2009; scored 97.0 Sports Briefs: Team USA 11th in FIFA rankings
ZURICH The United States remains at No. 11 while Brazil again is on top of the latest world rankings published Friday by FIFA. European champion Spain closed the gap on Brazil, the Confederations Cup winner, but stayed at second. The Netherlands fo...
2.8K - Oct. 16, 2009; scored 123.0 Native flowers help birds, insects, ecosystem
Flower fanciers have generally forsaken native plants over the years for the fashionable and the flashy, but the robust perennials are quickly becoming garden chic and the center of an ongoing conservation campaign. The handbook of the natural landsc...
6.0K - Oct. 16, 2009; scored 61.0 Interior, BLM offers 62 timber sales in Oregon
GRANTS PASS (AP) Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on Wednesday announced a crop of timber sales for federal lands in Western Oregon intended to keep Oregon mills open while the Obama administration works on a new long-term forest management strategy....
4.1K - Oct. 15, 2009; scored 951.0 Painting the past
COOS BAY Cargo ships may dock less frequently in Coos Bay these days, but a local artist is making sure their presence remains unfaded. Landscape designer Mike Vaughan can t resuscitate the timber industry or entice an industrial developer to town....
3.5K - Oct. 14, 2009; scored 61.0 | 
