CB officials begin search for city manager
The city of Coos Bay has scheduled a special council meeting Tuesday to decide who should manage City Hall. The council will consider whether to hire an interim city manager from a list of candidates compiled by the League of Oregon Cities, ask forme...
 1.2K - Nov. 9, 2009; scored 597.0 City may pay SCDC invoice
The city of Coos Bay has reached a compromise with the South Coast Development Council regarding payment for services in 2008. Interim City Manager Rodger Craddock and Councilor Mark Daily met with SCDC officials Oct. 8 and tentatively agreed for the...
1.5K - Oct. 19, 2009; scored 125.0 Council must manage itself first
Congratulations and bon voyage to Coos Bay s fired city manager, heading to Eastern Washington with $80,000 of city taxpayers money. Chuck Freeman s divisive tenure leaves behind a city council that is amply sad but not yet sufficiently wise. O...
2.0K - Oct. 16, 2009; scored 583.0 Freeman lands job in Wash
Coos Bay s former city manager has found a job as manager of an irrigation district in eastern Washington. The Kennewick Irrigation District offered a $105,000 contract to Chuck Freeman on Tuesday morning to head the organization. He is slated t...
2.1K - Oct. 14, 2009; scored 583.0 Message to Coos Bay: Get along or lose businesses
COOS BAY A facilitator with the League of Oregon Cities has given Coos Bay city councilors an incentive to resolve their differences. A dysfunctional city council could negatively impact one of its primary goals: economic development, she warned. P...
3.6K - Oct. 14, 2009; scored 212.0 Message to Coos Bay: Get along or lose businesses
COOS BAY A facilitator with the League of Oregon Cities has given Coos Bay city councilors an incentive to resolve their differences. A dysfunctional city council could negatively impact one of its primary goals: economic development, she warned. P...
3.8K - Oct. 13, 2009; scored 212.0 City manager knew the rules
Does anyone remember the saying My way or the highway ? Well, it happened in Coos Bay. It is relaxing to watch city council meetings on TV channel 14. A person gets to understand more of what goes on. Coos Bay City Manager Chuck Freeman was trying t...
1.1K - Oct. 9, 2009; scored 173.0 Coos Bay is in no rush to hire leader
The Coos Bay City Council is in a holding pattern on hiring a city manager, in the aftermath of the last office holder s firing. Police Chief Rodger Craddock has served as acting city manager since the council voted to terminate Chuck Freeman s contr...
2.1K - Oct. 7, 2009; scored 563.0 City wastes money at wrong time
You could hear this train coming from a mile away. The railroad job was so orchestrated and choreographed they could have handed out a script. By a pair of three-to-four votes, Mr. Freeman was ridden out of town on a rail, complete with tar and assoc...
2.0K - Oct. 6, 2009; scored 160.0 Community Sports: Community Scoreboard for Oct. 3
Bowling North Bend Lanes Sept. 21-27 HIGH GAME Young at Heart Seniors Virgil Pekoc 244, Richard Dupret 223, Richard Gutierrez 220; Sally Ash 234, Linda Nichols 212, Patty Rockwood 199. Monday Super Star Juniors Caleb Burns 219, Kyronn Morgan 211,...
9.8K - Oct. 3, 2009; scored 97.0 North Bend is taking the proper action
The city of North Bend not only needs to, but should, shut down The Mill Casino-Hotel. If you have to ask why, then I think you are in the wrong line of work or something. A remark that North America s native population is being compensated by the l...
0.9K - Oct. 3, 2009; scored 97.0 CB council must resolve its problems
I applaud the three Coos Bay city councilors, Kramer, Daily and Pundt, who voted to fix the problem, not fix the blame on the city manager s firing night. It is always hard to do the right thing, when it does not appear to be the popular one at the t...
1.8K - Oct. 3, 2009; scored 484.0 Politicians wear multiple hats
Chuck Freeman s explosive departure from the Coos Bay city manager job peppered his bosses with verbal shrapnel. Patching the wounds will take a while. That Freeman had to go is hard to dispute. Yet he somehow retained political support from three co...
2.4K - Sep. 30, 2009; scored 614.0 Craddock takes post in interim
The mantle of city manager fell onto police Chief Rodger Craddock s shoulders Wednesday night. He already was serving as deputy city manager, leading the city when Chuck Freeman was out of town. He declined to comment about the council s decision, th...
1.1K - Sep. 25, 2009; scored 501.0 Coos Bay fires city manager
The city of Coos Bay needs a new city manager, after the former officeholder lost his job during a tense special session Wednesday night. By a 4-3 vote, the city council fired Chuck Freeman. Councilors gave no reason for their decision, fearing a law...
7.4K - Sep. 25, 2009; scored 1000.0 Craddock takes post in interim
The mantle of city manager fell onto police Chief Rodger Craddock's shoulders Wednesday night. He already was serving as deputy city manager, leading the city when Chuck Freeman was out of town. He declined to comment about the council's decision, th...
1.1K - Sep. 24, 2009; scored 501.0 Coos Bay fires city manager
The city of Coos Bay needs a new city manager, after the former officeholder lost his job during a tense special session Wednesday night. By a 4-3 vote, the city council fired Chuck Freeman. Councilors gave no reason for their decision, fearing a law...
6.2K - Sep. 24, 2009; scored 312.0 A counselor can't save this marriage
Coos Bay s city council meets tonight to decide what to do about its very public problems surrounding its city manager. At the least, Chuck Freeman owes Mayor Jeff McKeown an apology. Freeman s crude chastising of the mayor in front of a reporter Mon...
2.1K - Sep. 23, 2009; scored 515.0 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 97.0 SCDC issues remain despite new contract
COOS BAY - The city of Coos Bay agreed this week to sign a new contract with the South Coast Development Council for help in revitalizing the city s business districts. The Urban Renewal Agency will pay the SCDC up to $25,000 to help with de...
1.4K - Sep. 22, 2009; scored 97.0 | 
