Community Action loses campus site
COQUILLE Oregon Coast Community Action is back to square one in looking for a community campus site, and the federal grants to build it, after an Empire property owner refused to sell its land. Now the agency is looking at airport land in North Ben...
 3.0K - Oct. 9, 2009; scored 133.0 Community Action loses campus site
COQUILLE ” Oregon Coast Community Action is back to square one in looking for a community campus site, and the federal grants to build it, after an Empire property owner refused to sell its land. Now the agency is looking at airport land i...
3.0K - Oct. 8, 2009; scored 133.0 Deer escapes car, pole doesn t
A Cadillac sheared off several feet of a utility pole on Wednesday, as the driver swerved to miss a meandering deer on Highway 42. At about 10:10 p.m., 33-year-old James L. Hazen of Coos Bay was heading west on 42 near milepost 1 in a 2007 Cadillac, ...
1.0K - Oct. 2, 2009; scored 105.0 Log truck snags lines, creates traffic snafu
A log truck knocked down a string of communication lines along Virginia Avenue Wednesday afternoon, blocking traffic and damaging nearby cars. The truck was southbound on U.S. Highway 101 around 2:20 p.m., when its load caught a wire at the intersect...
1.0K - Sep. 25, 2009; scored 66.0 Low power lines
A log truck knocked down a string of communication lines along Virginia Avenue Wednesday afternoon, blocking traffic and damaging nearby cars. The truck was southbound on U.S. Highway 101 around 2:20 p.m., when its load caught a wire at the intersect...
1.0K - Sep. 24, 2009; scored 66.0 Despite law, lobbyist help still undisclosed
WASHINGTON ” Few members of Congress are disclosing that lobbyists are helping them raise campaign cash despite a new law that was supposed to shed light on the ties between lawmakers and the capital s influence brokers, an Associated Pres...
5.6K - Sep. 17, 2009; scored 66.0 Fuse leaves customers in silence
Verizon customers may wonder why they didn t get any phone calls late Tuesday and early Wednesday. Well, they were getting them. They just couldn t hear their phones ring. Jon Davies, a spokesman for Verizon, said a fuse blew on the ringer circuit so...
1.9K - Aug. 29, 2009; scored 401.0 Crash sends fuel into slough near Hauser
Road workers used two oil booms to capture a small amount of diesel fuel that spilled into North Bay Slough following a single-vehicle crash Wednesday morning. A 2005 Ford F-250 was northbound on U.S. Highway 101 near milepost 229 when the driver app...
0.7K - Jul. 9, 2009; scored 66.0 Telephone problems in Bandon
An accident on U.S. Highway 101 knocked out phone and Internet service to Verizon customers in the Bandon area Monday. A trailer was hauling a backhoe north on the highway and ripped down a major interoffice fiber-optic cable just south of Bandon, sa...
0.4K - Jun. 3, 2009; scored 105.0 Verizon will sell landline network
There is a deal in the works to bring a new phone provider to the South Coast that plans to extend high-speed Internet service to more customers. Verizon Communications is selling its landlines in Oregon and 13 other states to Frontier Communications...
2.7K - May. 23, 2009; scored 1000.0 New area code means 10-digit dialing
Get ready to reprogram your phones. Starting July 12, customers can start using 10-digit dialing as Oregon adds a new area code, 458. The new code will be overlaid on areas that currently use 541. Phone numbers that include the existing 541 code won'...
1.5K - May. 12, 2009; scored 66.0 Sports Briefs: Boston GM Ainge has heart attack
BOSTON Boston Celtics general manager Danny Ainge was hospitalized after suffering what the team described as a minor heart attack. The Celtics issued a brief statement saying that Ainge, 50, was taken to a Boston hospital but provided few other de...
6.7K - Apr. 17, 2009; scored 105.0 Put Head Start in the right place
One of the two proposed sites for Head Start looks promising. But only one. Oregon Coast Community Action wants a new campus to house Head Start, as well as other programs for local families. It needs room for gardens, kitchens, classrooms and food s...
1.9K - Apr. 9, 2009; scored 105.0 City eyes Verizon site for school
COOS BAY - Local educators may not need to ruffle feathers in an Empire residential neighborhood to get a new Head Start building. The city of Coos Bay has an alternative site where Oregon Coast Community Action could build a new youth education faci...
4.3K - Apr. 8, 2009; scored 267.0 Wind stops play at PGA tournament
HUMBLE, Texas Greg Norman hit his approach to the par-4 18th hole to six feet during the first round of the Shell Houston Open on Thursday afternoon. As he walked up to the green, a gust of wind pushed the ball downhill to the front, about nine fee...
3.8K - Apr. 3, 2009; scored 66.0 Economizing exercise
NEW YORK Don t worry if you are too frugal to spend 10 bucks on a fitness DVD. You don t have to. Here are some tech-savvy ways that you can get a fun workout without spending a lot of money or going to the store. FitTv : In addition to on-air prog...
7.5K - Mar. 16, 2009; scored 66.0 Wind and rain cause road delays
Sunday s blustery weather played havoc with drivers when a number of fallen trees and mudslides blocked area roadways. A rock slide that closed state Highway 126, 8 miles west of Walton on Sunday and still was blocking the highway this morning. Drive...
3.1K - Mar. 16, 2009; scored 66.0 Crash injures four people
Four people were hurt in an accident on U.S. Highway 101 after a small car smashed into a utility pole Monday about six miles south of Bandon. At about 5:15 p.m., a 2002 Nissan Altima was heading south on the highway near milepost 278, when the vehic...
0.8K - Jan. 28, 2009; scored 105.0 Still disabling privacy
After testimony by our new attorney general, Eric Holder, on Jan. 14 before the Senate Judiciary Committee, I have regained my skepticism about how much of our Constitution President Barack Obama intends to restore for one example, our privacy righ...
3.0K - Jan. 27, 2009; scored 66.0 Downed tree hits phone line, blocks road
Both lanes of Scholfield Road near Thorton Oar Lane in Reedsport were blocked when a 10- to 18-inch diameter tree fell across the road on Tuesday at about 9:10 p.m. According to a Douglas County Sheriff s log, the tree fell across a Verizon phone lin...
0.6K - Dec. 31, 2008; scored 105.0 | 
