Retailers enter the hiring season
Tis the season to be hiring. Local retailers are hiring seasonal help to get them through what is expected to be a slightly better holiday shopping season than last year. For Margaret Hutcheson, owner of Horsin Around at Pony Village Mall, this seas...
 3.9K - Nov. 7, 2009; scored 460.0 Holiday outlook improves as jobs, spending rally
The Associated Press The U.S. economy yielded some encouraging news today on two of its biggest trouble spots consumer spending and jobs. Consumers, enticed by cooler weather and an improving economy, spent a little more in October. They gave the ...
1.7K - Nov. 5, 2009; scored 79.0 Gas prices chugging up for the holidays
NEW YORK (AP) Americans are paying more for gasoline than they did last year as the holidays approached billions of dollars that could go to books, clothes and Barbie dolls instead being spent at the pump. Gas averaged nearly $2.70 a gallon ...
3.8K - Oct. 31, 2009; scored 102.0 Flat income raises concern
WASHINGTON (AP) Flat incomes suggest more weakness ahead in consumer spending, reinforcing concerns about a ho-hum holiday shopping season and a sluggish economic recovery. This recovery is going to be very weak. Consumers are in no position or moo...
4.0K - Oct. 31, 2009; scored 102.0 Spookiest place in town
NORTH BEND Scott Walling and his wife have the holiday spirit, and boy do their neighbors know it. Whether it s St. Patrick s or Valentine s Day, the couple and their young son decorate their home and yard to the nines with inflatable characters, l...
4.3K - Oct. 30, 2009; scored 102.0 Auditions
Laughter on the 23rd Floor Auditions for Neil Simon s Laughter on the 23rd Floor will be held at 7 p.m. Monday and Tuesday at Little Theatre on the Bay, 2100 Sherman Ave., in North Bend. Directors Tim Novotny and Anna Weidemiller are looking for se...
1.8K - Oct. 2, 2009; scored 102.0 Thefts & mischief
The following are theft and criminal mischief reports from police logs. Coos Bay Sept. 24, 9 a.m., a woman reported an overwhelming smell of antiseptic in the 300 block of Ackerman Street. Sept. 24, 10:58 a.m., a family dispute was reported in the 20...
1.6K - Sep. 25, 2009; scored 79.0 South Coast Has Talent
BANDON Seventeen amateur performers, ranging in age from 10 to 78, will compete this weekend for a $500 top prize in the first South Coast Has Talent contest. Last week, 28 contestants sang, played instruments, acted and danced in the cont...
5.8K - Aug. 28, 2009; scored 125.0 Consumer spent more in July
WASHINGTON (AP) Consumer spending edged up in July with help from the popular Cash for Clunkers program, but household incomes, the fuel for future spending increases, were flat. Consumer spending is the big question mark as the economy struggles t...
4.7K - Aug. 28, 2009; scored 102.0 Sparkles, sizzles and booms support community groups
The last fireworks have been popped. The tents have come down. Fourth of July is over, but money spent on Independence Day firecrackers from some local booths will stay to aid the community. The Bay Area Church of the Nazarene uses fireworks revenue ...
3.3K - Jul. 7, 2009; scored 102.0 Thefts and mischief
The following are theft and criminal mischief reports from police department logs. Coos Bay June 28, 2:50 p.m., illegal camping was reported at Mingus Park. June 28, 3:04 p.m., vandalism was reported on Fifth Avenue. June 28, 6:41 p.m., theft was rep...
3.4K - Jul. 1, 2009; scored 79.0 Economy takes sparkle out of holiday travel
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Fewer people will be traveling this July Fourth holiday, auto club AAA said today, even though gasoline is far cheaper this year and pump prices have begun to fall even more. AAA said it expects 37.1 million travelers - 12 perce...
2.4K - Jun. 24, 2009; scored 118.0 A walk makes up for bad habits
I want to say that last weekend was a wash. The weekend trip to Portland was not diet-friendly. I really do not want to think about the caloric intake and carb counts. I'm sure it is frightening. Pizza, nachos, sweet potato fries. And that is in addi...
2.1K - May. 26, 2009; scored 79.0 Small opportunities
NORTH BEND Flipping burgers wasn t going to do it. But when Dave Wauer lost his job cleaning septic tanks last October, there wasn t much else he could find to pay his bills. It s no wonder, with the ever-growing ranks of the unemployed all vying f...
8.0K - May. 9, 2009; scored 102.0 Oregon Outdoor Report: Good coho season announced
Great news has finally come from the Pacific Fishery Management Council. We have a significant ocean recreational coho salmon fishery south of Cape Falcon and starting June 20 through Aug. 31, or until a quota of 110,000 fin-clipped coho are caught, ...
4.2K - Apr. 11, 2009; scored 102.0 Stretching your food budget dollars
Sometimes scouring the grocery store circulars in The World pays off big when it comes to ways to stretch your food budget. That was the case last week. While making my weekly run through the ads, a Safeway item caught my eye a bone-in turkey breas...
5.7K - Mar. 2, 2009; scored 102.0 Alaskans brace as Mount Redoubt rumbles, threatens Anchorage with gnarly volcanic dust
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) Hardware stores and auto parts shops scored a post-holiday run of business this week as Anchorage-area residents stocked up on protective eyewear and masks ahead of a possible eruption of Mount Redoubt. Monitoring earthquakes...
1.3K - Jan. 30, 2009; scored 102.0 Circuit City to close 567 remaining stores
Bankrupt Circuit City Stores Inc., unable to work out a sale of the company, said Friday it will go out of business closing its 567 U.S. stores and cutting 30,000 jobs. The nation s second-biggest consumer electronics retailer is the latest casualt...
5.3K - Jan. 17, 2009; scored 125.0 Travel the world in respite from reality
With alarm over the effortless and near-total socialization of the U.S. economy, and with worry over concessions in the Status of Forces Agreement with Iraq, a reader writes: It is hard to feel joyful during the holiday season while our country and ...
3.4K - Jan. 2, 2009; scored 102.0 December
A soggy end to 2008 for the South Coast School administrators learn their districts will face 1.2 percent across-the-board budget cuts ordered by Gov. Ted Kulongoski. Coquille estimates its loss at $275,000; Myrtle Point, $70,000; a...
1.4K - Dec. 31, 2008; scored 79.0 | 
