Marriages & divorces, Nov. 7
The following couples have filed for marriage licenses at the clerk s office at the Coos County Courthouse in Coquille: Robert Magill and Elisa Crawford both of Coquille. Jesse Carter and Jami Garnick both of North Bend. Richard Kight and Angelica Kr...
 1.0K - Nov. 7, 2009; scored 150.0 Going Out
Theater etc. This weekend Coastal Douglas Has Talent!, a talent show and fundraiser for the Reedsport Rotary Club, will be held at 6 p.m. Saturday at Pacific Auditorium in Reedsport. About a dozen performers of a variety of ages will compete, and PBA...
4.4K - Nov. 6, 2009; scored 194.0 Going Out
Theater etc. This weekend Haunted Theatre will be open 7 to 10 p.m. Friday and 7 to 11 p.m. Saturday at Little Theatre on the Bay. $3 first visit, $1 repeat visits, free after fifth time. The North Bend Police Department s haunted house wil...
5.0K - Oct. 30, 2009; scored 224.0 Deadly sea foam puzzles scientists
PORTLAND (AP) Scientists know what caused the ocean foam that has killed thousands of seabirds in Oregon and Washington, but they don t know exactly why it suddenly showed up in such deadly abundance off the Northwest coast. The organism is a singl...
3.1K - Oct. 29, 2009; scored 248.0 Going Out
Theater etc. This weekend The Pride of the Sawdust League, or Three Strikes and You re Out returns to the Sawdust Theatre in Coquille for one night only. Benefit to send Doug Veysey of Myrtle Point to Boston Marathon. Show time is 8 p.m. Saturday. &...
5.2K - Oct. 23, 2009; scored 224.0 Gearhart crash report: Pilot was disoriented
GEARHART (AP) The pilot of a small plane that crashed into an Oregon vacation house failed to maintain control because of spatial disorientation, a federal agency said in its report on the tragedy that left five people dead. Jason Ketcheson, 36, of...
2.3K - Oct. 18, 2009; scored 150.0 Gearhart crash report: Pilot was disoriented
GEARHART (AP) The pilot of a small plane that crashed into an Oregon vacation house failed to maintain control because of spatial disorientation, a federal agency said in its report on the tragedy that left five people dead. Jason Ketcheson, 36, of...
2.3K - Oct. 17, 2009; scored 150.0 State looks to tall buildings for tsunami safety
CANNON BEACH (AP) Should an earthquake generate a tsunami on the Oregon coast, there might be only 20 minutes to get to high ground. But regional leaders, engineers and scientists plan to gather next week in Cannon Beach and Portland to talk about ...
2.3K - Sep. 25, 2009; scored 951.0 Researchers make maps of seafloor
FLORENCE (AP) A survey of the ocean floor off the Oregon coast is under way to provide detailed undersea maps to help protect marine habitat. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Oregon State University will study water depths, s...
2.4K - Aug. 19, 2009; scored 237.0 Families mend slowly after Gearhart plane crash
GEARHART (AP) A year after a single-engine plane crashed into a Gearhart house, creating an inferno and killing five people, seeds of hope are beginning to spread. In Portland, a soccer field named after 10-year-old Julia Reimann, who died in the f...
4.8K - Aug. 6, 2009; scored 224.0 Low tides to allow exploration
PORTLAND (AP) - Searching for shipwrecks and exploring tide pools along the Oregon Coast will be easier this week when extremely low tides will expose areas normally hidden by the pounding surf. On Tuesday and Wednesday mornings, tides will drop as l...
0.8K - Jun. 22, 2009; scored 194.0 Only about one in four voters send in ballots
The lack of controversy and large-scale election campaigns seems to have prompted most South Coast voters to ignore Tuesday's special districts election. Coos County's voter turnout was low, said County Clerk Terri Turi. Of 36,394 registered voters i...
10.5K - May. 20, 2009; scored 237.0 Oregon coast town wants watershed protected
CANNON BEACH (AP) - The Ecola Creek watershed may get some extra protection if voters in the city of Cannon Beach approve the purchase of 800 acres of forest near the ocean. A $4 million bond measure to purchase the land is on the May 19 bal...
2.4K - May. 11, 2009; scored 1000.0 Recent quakes are reminder: Northwest is due for a big one
Here comes the big one. The science community has murmured the maxim for years the Pacific Northwest coastline is due for a catastrophic earthquake. Despite a recent series of quakes that have rattled the ocean floor and one near Powers, geologists...
4.6K - Mar. 7, 2009; scored 150.0 Years ago
1908 Saturday, Feb. 15 Captain Kessel, of the wrecked ship Emily Reed which was lost early yesterday morning on the Tillamook coast near the Nehalem River, has returned to the scene of the wreck to ascertain if it is possible to save any of the c...
5.4K - Feb. 11, 2009; scored 150.0 New attorney general opposes LNG development
SALEM John Kroger, Oregon s new attorney general, took a hard line against proposed liquefied natural gas terminals and pipelines Tuesday, saying they are bad for landowners, the environment and energy independence. He was just one in a string of l...
3.9K - Jan. 14, 2009; scored 150.0 Rally spotlights LNG debate, legislation
SALEM (AP) John Kroger, Oregon's new attorney general, has taken a hard line against proposed liquefied natural gas terminals and pipelines. At a Capitol rally Tuesday, he said they were bad for landowners, the environment and energy independence....
0.7K - Jan. 13, 2009; scored 150.0 Fireplace caused north coast inn blaze
CANNON BEACH (AP) Investigators determined that a malfunctioning flue chase behind a natural gas fireplace caused the New Year s Day fire at a popular Cannon Beach inn. Fire marshal Mike Graham of the Cannon Beach Rural Fire Protection District say...
0.8K - Jan. 7, 2009; scored 1000.0 Inventive artists excite in STiTCH exhibit
Fabrics and fibers are the media of the moment, as Coos Art Museum devotes three galleries to a compendium of art quilts and creative stitchery. Cold-blooded visitors be warned: art quilts are not the items to grab when temperatures plummet. That s t...
4.9K - Jan. 2, 2009; scored 150.0 Governor nominates local nurse to state board
Governor Ted Kulongoski recently announced he has nominated Linda Mill of Coos Bay for volunteer service on the Oregon State Board Nursing. Mill s nomination is subject to Senate confirmation. The Senate is scheduled to hold a confirmation committee...
0.6K - Dec. 3, 2008; scored 150.0 | 
