Soldiers will have a brighter holiday
Operation Santa of the U.S. Marine Corps Family Foundation has started its sixth year of sewing and collecting stuffers for Christmas stockings to be sent to our troops in the Middle East. To kick off our project, a rummage sale, an event of Dining f...
 1.1K - Nov. 6, 2009; scored 127.0 Bend company preserves national X-mas tree
BEND Santa Claus isn t the only one with a lot of responsibility this Christmas. A Bend company is tasked with keeping the nation s Christmas tree fresh from its cutting later this week until its arrival in Washington, D.C., three weeks later. The ...
2.8K - Nov. 4, 2009; scored 837.0 Tree of Giving program begins
Tree of Giving is an annual program that lets the community provide a gift for a local child at Christmas. It also provides a way for someone to adopt an entire family of children. This is a great activity for a family, a work group or for someone ...
2.0K - Nov. 3, 2009; scored 187.0 Learn the facts before you recall
I have served on the Lakeside City Council the past three years through the good and bad. Recently, I ve been contacted by citizens with their concerns printed in the North County News, and rumors flying around town about council business. I may have...
2.3K - Oct. 7, 2009; scored 98.0 Lakeside council is doing its job
I have served on the Lakeside City Council the past three years through the good and bad. Recently, I ve been contacted by citizens with their concerns printed in the North County News, and rumors flying around town about council business. I may have...
2.5K - Sep. 25, 2009; scored 98.0 Lakeside is filled with caring people
Thank you for publishing your positive article of Lakeside Library s Summer Reading Program. After reading all the negatives on Lakeside, it is a pleasure to read positive news on happenings in Lakeside. Our library is a gem in itself, with a caring ...
2.6K - Sep. 21, 2009; scored 127.0 Obama Christmas tree will be fir from West Virginia
CHARLESTON, W.Va . (AP) A Fraser fir from West Virginia will be the Christmas tree displayed inside the White House this year. Tree farmers Eric and Gloria Sundback were selected this month as grand champions of the National Christmas Tree contest...
0.6K - Aug. 26, 2009; scored 579.0 Going Out
Theater etc. This weekend The Sound of Moolah, a puppet show about the fight over national health care, will be presented at 7 p.m. Saturday at the Labor Hall, 3427 Ash St., in North Bend; and at 1 p.m. Sunday at VFW Post 3440, 55382 Bates Road, in ...
4.8K - Jul. 24, 2009; scored 98.0 Going out
Theater etc. This weekend Murder s in the Heir will be presented by New Artists Productions this weekend at the Harbortown Events Center, 325 Second St. SE, in Bandon. Written by Billy St. John, comedy murder mystery about an investigation into the ...
4.4K - Jul. 17, 2009; scored 98.0 Frances H. Vandervelden
Memorial services will be held for Frances W. Vandervelden, 77, of Coos Bay, at 11 a.m., Saturday, July 11, at Bay Area Foursquare Church, Fifth and Donnelly, Coos Bay. Pastor David Scanlon will officiate. Cremation rites were held at Ocean View Memo...
3.5K - Jul. 1, 2009; scored 127.0 Column, Ron Jackimowicz, News Editor: Kentuck rekindles the good old days
I m ready to go back to Kentuck already. This course was the perfect prescription for my golf game. The fairways are wide open, which is usually very good for me although on this day I struck the ball better than I have in years (just ask John, he ...
3.8K - Jun. 5, 2009; scored 147.0 Feast of art
COOS BAY Happy Saturnalia! It s a few months early for the Roman festival of gluttony that was a pagan precursor to Christmas, but the Coos Art Museum is putting on a feast of art. It s Expressions West, the museum s annual painting competition f...
5.0K - May. 1, 2009; scored 147.0 Trucking dispute could trip up Oregon exporters
PORTLAND (AP) - Mexico's decision to impose tariffs on dozens of U.S. products could cost Oregon exporters tens of millions of dollars. The duties, sparked by the Obama administration's cancellation of a cross-border trucking program, include 20 perc...
1.9K - Mar. 19, 2009; scored 175.0 Remains found at home of missing man
CORBETT (AP) Investigators say they ve found human remains on the 14-acre rural property of a woman accused of killing her husband. Multnomah County sheriff s deputies arrested Hazelynn Stomps on Thursday, saying they found inconsistencies in her s...
1.4K - Feb. 14, 2009; scored 98.0 Lakeside helpers made town sparkle
The Lakeside Chamber of Commerce would like to thank the many people who helped with the Community Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony. Jerry Reeder replaced and repaired the lights. Bill Mataka, Jim Farmer and Jerry Cox got us the tree and delivered it...
1.4K - Feb. 6, 2009; scored 215.0 Legislature is right to ban novelty lighters
If you have children in the house, you should have enough sense not to bring home a cigarette lighter that looks like a toy. You certainly should have enough sense not to leave it where the kids can find it. You should, but not everyone does. So now ...
2.2K - Feb. 5, 2009; scored 98.0 Lawmakers want ban on novelty lighters
SALEM A ban on the sale of toy-like novelty lighters was approved by the Oregon House Wednesday after backers said the lighters pose a danger to children who can burn themselves and start fires with them. During the House debate, a lawmaker who s s...
2.6K - Feb. 5, 2009; scored 98.0 Chamber honors Bridghams
NORTH BEND The Bay Area Chamber of Commerce celebrated the best of 2008 last weekend, but the business community also looked to the year ahead with consensus we ll get through the tough times by working together. My attitude is and will remain .....
4.6K - Feb. 2, 2009; scored 98.0 Coquille's rescue crews are splendid
The Coquille Police Department and Coquille Fire Department have been working together on several positive community projects. At Halloween, they worked with others and held Thrills Night, which included a public safe haunted house. It supported t...
1.1K - Jan. 23, 2009; scored 147.0 Thefts and mischief
The following are theft and criminal mischief reports from area police department logs. Coos Bay Jan. 9, 2:24 p.m., a woman reported someone stole half a bottle of morphine out of her vehicle parked in the 500 block of Miluk Loop. Jan. 9, 2:50 p.m., ...
6.0K - Jan. 12, 2009; scored 98.0 | 
