Cheers & Jeers
Check it out! When you finish reading today s paper, pick up a library book and give a cheer. The Coos County Library Association is celebrating its 30th anniversary. Public libraries bring us a world of knowledge at a bargain price. Educate your own...
 2.0K - Nov. 7, 2009; scored 79.0 Ex-mill site sees activity
Developers are starting to move dirt that has sat untouched for almost 20 years at the old Georgia-Pacific mill site in Coquille. The new tenants, McKay s Market and Coos-Curry Electric Cooperative Inc., have started priming more than six acres on th...
3.1K - Oct. 24, 2009; scored 79.0 No formal charges in pedestrian fatality
A driver whose pickup struck a French man in a North Bend crosswalk last month will not face criminal charges. After reviewing the police investigation, District Attorney R. Paul Frasier announced Thursday that he will not prosecute Jared Bechtel of ...
1.8K - Oct. 16, 2009; scored 408.0 Car vs. pedestrian: Car always wins
A lot has been in the paper lately about crosswalk accidents and the need for more police patrol and signs. That s all OK, but with a little common sense and instruction these accidents are 100 percent preventable. The first rule of thumb for the ped...
0.9K - Oct. 13, 2009; scored 124.0 Crosswalk death may bring charges
The Coos County District Attorney said he is awaiting reports from law enforcement before he will decide whether to criminally charge a Coos Bay man in a Sept. 17 pedestrian vs. vehicle crash that killed a French man. Michel Bernard, 71, and Marie-Th...
1.5K - Oct. 6, 2009; scored 316.0 Police needs to start watching crosswalks
I would like to know when the crosswalk is going to be safe for people to cross the street at the McKay s store. I walk that crosswalk almost every day to the store. When I am in the middle of the crosswalk, the cars are still going by without stoppi...
1.1K - Sep. 26, 2009; scored 474.0 Pedestrian death case to go to DA
The Coos County District Attorney will consider whether to charge a Coos Bay man who struck a French couple Sept. 17 in a North Bend crosswalk. Seventy-one-year-old Michel Bernard subsequently died in a Portland hospital. Bernard succumbed to complic...
1.7K - Sep. 25, 2009; scored 408.0 Crosswalk accident leaves man critical
A French man remained in critical condition in a Portland hospital today, after he was struck in a North Bend crosswalk Thursday afternoon. Seventy-one-year-old Michel Bernard and Marie-Therese Pradel, 68, were crossing Sherman Avenue, when a sport u...
1.4K - Sep. 18, 2009; scored 791.0 Drivers must follow crosswalk rules
This letter is in regard to yielding to pedestrians in crosswalks. Under Oregon law (ORS 811.360), drivers must stop and remain stopped for pedestrians in crosswalks until they have cleared the drive s lane and the adjacent lane. When a vehicle is tu...
2.2K - Aug. 24, 2009; scored 474.0 Bandon port office gets some upgrades
BANDON Workers are keeping busy on Port of Bandon upgrades this summer thanks to about $52,000 in grants. The port has improved its building security and also is upgrading its waterfront parking facilities using grant funding from Special ...
1.8K - Aug. 15, 2009; scored 79.0 Length should challenge top golfers
CHASKA, Minn. The fans stopped at the crosswalk on No. 3 and pulled out their course maps. It s 633 yards, one said. Wow, the other said, pausing as he looked left and right, unable to see either tee or green. This is a monster. And that s not e...
4.6K - Aug. 13, 2009; scored 79.0 Car strikes teen in Bandon crosswalk
A vehicle injured and threw a Bandon girl into the street Monday when it collided with her bicycle in Bandon near 11th Street and U.S. Highway 101. At about 3:47 p.m., a 2005 four-door Chevrolet, driven by 94-year-old Louis B. Prahar of Bandon, turne...
1.4K - Jul. 8, 2009; scored 316.0 Walkers welcome
North Bend police stopped 13 vehicles during their second pedestrian crosswalk sting of the year Tuesday at the corner of Virginia Avenue and Marion Street, but it seems the safety message might be sinking in. There were fewer stops than previous cro...
0.9K - Jul. 1, 2009; scored 474.0 Police should target pedestrians
I m all for pedestrian safety, but I believe the pedestrians need to pay more attention to what they are doing. When I was young we were taught to stop, look and listen before we stepped off the curb. We were also taught that a 4,000- or 5,000-pound ...
2.0K - Jun. 18, 2009; scored 124.0 Stallworth gets 30 days in jail
MIAMI Cleveland Browns wide receiver Donte Stallworth began serving a 30-day jail sentence Tuesday for killing a pedestrian while driving drunk in Florida, a punishment made possible by his cooperation with investigators and the fervent wish by th...
4.2K - Jun. 17, 2009; scored 79.0 North Bend police will hold special crosswalk enforcement class
The North Bend Police Department will teach drivers about pedestrian crosswalk safety through a talk and tickets on Tuesday, June 23. The special enforcement program will be from 10 a.m. to noon at the corner of Virginia and Marion avenues. An off...
1.1K - Jun. 11, 2009; scored 1000.0 Road repairs finally coming after long wait
COQUILLE Some of the city s most atrocious streets are slated for a makeover this summer, but city officials are waiting on grants before the asphalt starts pouring. For those who live and drive on the worst roads in Coquille, the wait has been a l...
1.8K - Jun. 4, 2009; scored 79.0 Inmates shouldn't get coverage
It seems like kind of a slap in the face to the honest, hard-working, tax-paying citizens struggling to make ends meet without even a small hope of any kind of medical insurance, to read in the paper that as taxpayers they have to provide medical, de...
1.9K - May. 22, 2009; scored 79.0 A walk on the mild side
Column by Joe Hansen, Outdoors Editor One evening a few weeks ago I found myself standing on the corner of U.S. Highway 101 and Johnson Avenue, next to a man with a cardboard sign that read: Hungry. Please help. I wasn t panhandling. It hasn t quite...
3.7K - May. 9, 2009; scored 79.0 Would you walk to Empire for whiskey?
NORTH BEND - When teetotalers took away their booze in 1860, hard-working men from North Bend's sawmill and shipyards hiked nearly five miles to the saloons of Empire City to slake their thirst. Now, a group of historians hopes to bring the men's lit...
4.4K - Apr. 23, 2009; scored 79.0 | 
