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 116.0 The whirligig mystery
COOS BAY The residents of Coos County need a little public art in their lives, so says Coos Bay landscape architect Mike Vaughan. He s giving it to folks. And many have noticed. It s been hard to miss the spinning contraption that materialized on t...
2.9K - Oct. 3, 2009; scored 116.0 Festival was fun for Shriner volunteers
Hillah Shriner Clown Nobles and their ladies greatly appreciate Bay Area support for the Shriners Food Booth. Things were $1 per food item at the 2009 Bay Area Fun Fest. Profits from the booth help Hillah Clowns support the Shriners Portland...
1.0K - Oct. 2, 2009; scored 116.0 Football: Bulldogs finally will play at home
North Bend s football team started practice 45 days ago. Friday night, the Bulldogs finally get to play a home game. After opening the season with four straight road contests, the Bulldogs host Sweet Home in the annual Miss Flame game Friday at Vic A...
3.0K - Oct. 1, 2009; scored 116.0 Moralez sings her way to top prize
COOS BAY Star Moralez puts a piece of herself into every song she sings. But it was Janis Joplin s Piece of My Heart that won her the title of Teen Idol on Saturday, after three years in the competition. Emma Wampler finished second, Destyni Full...
3.4K - Sep. 21, 2009; scored 466.0 Spinners on parade
COOS BAY More than a dozen children from North Bay Elementary, The Lighthouse School and other local schools mounted bicycles with pinwheels a-spinning Saturday morning for the Bay Area Fun Festival parade. The schools turn in the procession this ...
1.2K - Sep. 21, 2009; scored 466.0 Festival Season isn't all merrymaking
We ve celebrated cranberries, blackberries, seafood, chain saws and sand dunes. And just before festival fatigue settles in, we ve got another weekend of fun ahead of us. Today s Bay Area Fun Festival represents the last big hoorah before the tourism...
5.8K - Sep. 21, 2009; scored 1000.0 Scotty Brown run a success
The annual Scotty Brown Memorial Run drew a big crowd to the dunes on the North Spit last weekend. The run is held each year in honor of former South Coast Running Club member Scotty Brown, on one of his favorite courses. Brown died in 2003, and was ...
1.7K - Sep. 19, 2009; scored 116.0 Going out
Theater etc. This weekend Bay Area Teen Idol, a singing competition for Coos County teens, will conclude at the Bay Area Fun Festival, 3 p.m. Saturday. Four finalists and others will perform at the Firemen s Memorial in downtown Coos Bay. www.bayare...
5.1K - Sep. 18, 2009; scored 184.0 Teen Idol: Decision day
It s anybody s game at this point. Ask the judges in any talent competition in the week before the final what they think about the contestants chances, and that is what they ll say. Every time. What s different about this year s Bay Area Teen Idol f...
7.4K - Sep. 18, 2009; scored 270.0 Museum names fourth Maritime winner
Harold Johnson has done it again. For the second time in three years, Johnson won two of the top four awards in the Coos Art Museum s annual Maritime Art Exhibit. The museum announced Johnson of SeaTac, Wash., is the winner of the People s Choice aw...
0.8K - Sep. 18, 2009; scored 116.0 Day Planner
Ongoing PhotoZone Gallery ” Gallery One, 715 Quince St., Florence. Oregon 150: Looking Back on Coos County ” 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., 1220 Sherman Ave., North Bend. Free admission on Sept. 18 only, $4. Children 11 and under, ...
11.5K - Sep. 18, 2009; scored 173.0 Inland heat could spike attendance
The Bay Area Fun Festival gets into full swing Saturday, meaning Cindi Miller has anxiously spent the past few days scanning weather reports. She wasn t encouraged by Wednesday s unseasonable rain storm, but there s good news on the horizon. Forecast...
5.2K - Sep. 18, 2009; scored 804.0 Day Planner
Ongoing Broadway Bound play ” Runs through Sept. 27, 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday matinee, Little Theatre on the Bay, 2100 Sherman Ave., North Bend. (756-4336) Oregon 150: Looking Back on Coos County ” 10 a.m. to 4 ...
11.5K - Sep. 17, 2009; scored 116.0 15th Annual Sand n Sea Quilt Show
The Coos Sand n Sea Quilt Guild will hosts its 15th annual show ” Sea of Quilts ” in conjunction with the Bay Area Fun Festival from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at the Boys & Girls Club of Southwestern Oregon, ...
1.3K - Sep. 17, 2009; scored 116.0 Day Planner
Ongoing PhotoZone Gallery ” Gallery One, 715 Quince St., Florence. Broadway Bound play ” Runs through Sept. 27., 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday matinee, Little Theatre on the Bay, 2100 Sherman Ave., North Bend. (756-4...
13.4K - Sep. 16, 2009; scored 173.0 Jordan highlights Hall of Fame class
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. Michael Jordan was the best, no doubt about it. That s what Charles Barkley was forced to acknowledge in 1984, when he came to the U.S. Olympic trials believing he was the best player in the nation and left realizing someone was ...
5.1K - Sep. 11, 2009; scored 116.0 Going out
Theater etc. This weekend Broadway Bound, the third part of Neil Simon s classic autobiographical trilogy, will be presented at Little Theatre on the Bay beginning tonight and running through Sept. 27. Show times are 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and...
4.7K - Sep. 11, 2009; scored 184.0 Prefontaine Run celebrates 30 years
The Prefontaine Memorial Run marks 30 years of honoring the memory of famed Coos Bay runner Steve Prefontaine with the annual 10-kilometer race on Saturday, Sept. 19. The race starts at 10 a.m. in downtown Coos Bay and runners will follow one of Pref...
1.8K - Sep. 5, 2009; scored 116.0 Oregon Outdoor Report: Umpqua River kicks off first derby of season
Chinook salmon fishing has remained strong in all local rivers. We are just starting to see a better catch inside the jetties in Winchester Bay and mooching on the bar at Charleston has also picked up. The large number of jacks has been the topic of ...
4.1K - Sep. 5, 2009; scored 150.0 | 
