Reports: Federal stimulus sends $1.8B to Oregon
PORTLAND (AP) Oregon has received about $1.8 billion in the first eight months of the federal stimulus program credited with saving or creating nearly 10,000 jobs in the state. Reports released Friday showed the largest number of jobs saved by...
 3.1K - Nov. 2, 2009; scored 261.0 Charlotte Jean Nuessle
A gathering for family and friends to celebrate the life of Charlotte Jean Nuessle, 69, of Bandon, will be held from 1 to 4 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 30, at the Bandon VFW Hall. Charlotte was born June 9, 1940, in Troy, N.Y., to Victor and Jennie Kursa. S...
1.0K - Oct. 29, 2009; scored 337.0 Dave Callender
Memorial services will be held for L. David Callender Jr., 70, of North Bend, formally of Winston, at a later date. Dave was born Nov. 19, 1938, in Urania, La., the son of Luther Callender Sr. and Fairleen (Kinney) Callender. He died Oct. 17, 2009, i...
0.9K - Oct. 28, 2009; scored 337.0 Thefts & mischief
The following are reports from police logs. Coquille Oct. 23, 11:44 a.m., police arrested a teenager on charges of theft and unauthorized entry into a vehicle at Coquille High School. Oct. 23, 1:32 p.m., a fork lift was found in a ditch and reported ...
5.4K - Oct. 26, 2009; scored 261.0 Water contact advisories for local beaches
Public health advisories were issued Thursday for Bastendorff Beach County Park and Sunset Bay State Park beach due to higher-than-normal levels of bacteria in ocean waters. Direct contact with the water should be avoided until the advisories are lif...
2.0K - Oct. 18, 2009; scored 390.0 Storms affect fishing and hunting
Salmon fishing on the Lower Rogue River in Gold Beach still is producing good numbers of coho and jack Chinook. Adult Chinook are returning to the Indian Creek area with larger numbers being caught this past week. Most of the salmon being caught on t...
3.7K - Oct. 18, 2009; scored 545.0 Water contact advisories for local beaches
Public health advisories were issued Thursday for Bastendorff Beach County Park and Sunset Bay State Park beach due to higher-than-normal levels of bacteria in ocean waters. Direct contact with the water should be avoided until the advisories are lif...
2.0K - Oct. 17, 2009; scored 390.0 Storms affect fishing and hunting
Salmon fishing on the Lower Rogue River in Gold Beach still is producing good numbers of coho and jack Chinook. Adult Chinook are returning to the Indian Creek area with larger numbers being caught this past week. Most of the salmon being caught on t...
3.7K - Oct. 17, 2009; scored 545.0 Chetco's giant salmon spawn controversy
BROOKINGS (AP) Despite having only a sliver of the Chetco River open to angling this month, John Martin of Klamath Falls does not lament the loss of upstream fishing access. He drops his anchovy into the estuary between the jetties, then motors his...
4.3K - Oct. 16, 2009; scored 723.0 Panel focuses on Oregon tourism
BANDON A panel of industry watchers weighed in on the future of one of the state s main economic drivers in what was billed as an open conversation about the perceptions and realities of Oregon s tourism and hospitality industry. Oregon s tourism ...
3.3K - Oct. 12, 2009; scored 469.0 Volunteers clean up crab pots
REEDSPORT A handful of boats in Oregon s crabbing fleet returned to sea last week for one last hurrah. Their quarries were the derelict pots and buoys left behind this year by commercial crab boats. During a volunteer effort held nearly seven weeks...
3.1K - Oct. 10, 2009; scored 337.0 Police find bombs after man's death
Coos County s Major Crimes Team has confiscated numerous explosives, after investigating the death of a 29-year-old North Bend man. On Monday at 9 a.m., North Bend officers and the Crime Team went to a house in the 2200 block of Oak Street to do a w...
1.1K - Oct. 6, 2009; scored 261.0 Salmon restoration effort begins on California river
FRESNO, Calif. When Darrell Imperatrice was a boy, California s San Joaquin River teemed with so many king salmon his father could catch 40-pound fish using only a pitchfork. Then the salmon vanished from the icy river for nearly 60 years, after a ...
5.2K - Oct. 3, 2009; scored 564.0 Thefts & mischief
The following are theft and criminal mischief reports from police logs. Coos Bay Sept. 29, 12:05 a.m., illegal camping was reported near Blossom Gulch Elementary School, 333 S. 10th St. Sept. 29, 7:01 a.m., theft was reported in the 100 block of Norm...
5.8K - Sep. 30, 2009; scored 261.0 Big squid washing up on Oregon beaches
PORTLAND (AP) Dozens of large squid are reportedly washing up dead on the central Oregon coast near Heceta Head. Oregon State Parks and Recreation spokesman Chris Havel said his office is hearing reports of dozens of what are probably Humboldt squi...
1.1K - Sep. 23, 2009; scored 261.0 Thefts and Mischief
The following are theft and criminal mischief reports from police logs. Coos Bay Sept. 19, 8:41 p.m., police cited a man for possession of less than an ounce of marijuana near Michigan and Wall. Sept. 21, 9:11 a.m., a domestic dispute was reported in...
3.7K - Sep. 22, 2009; scored 261.0 Praise the Coast Guard's lifesaving
I m writing in regard to the article about the U.S. Coast Guard (The World, Sept. 11). In my opinion it was a slam. I have some questions and some comments. Do the people who did the complaining remember how hard it was to get the Coast Guard back in...
1.5K - Sep. 21, 2009; scored 261.0 Defending the middle ground
I knew something was up when I heard the second phone message about ACORN. The caller said he wasn t a conservative or a liberal, just a concerned American. He wondered why we hadn t printed anything about the ACORN scandal. He hoped to see it on ou...
3.0K - Sep. 21, 2009; scored 261.0 Robert Hanlon
At his request, no public ceremony will be held for Robert W. "Bob" Hanlon, 71, of Brookings. Cremation will be at Redwood Memorial Crematory, 1020 Fifield St., Brookings. Bob was born April 10, 1938, in North Bend, to Robert and Patricia (Guilliams)...
1.4K - Sep. 19, 2009; scored 337.0 Ida Elizabeth Waggoner
A public interment will be held for Ida Elizabeth Waggoner, 87, of Bend, at 1 p.m. Friday, Sept. 18, at her family plot in Reedsport. Ida was born March 7, 1922, on a family-owned homestead at Shutter's Landing in Lakeside, to two Finnish immigrants,...
4.4K - Sep. 17, 2009; scored 261.0 | 
