Coos Bay signs LNG pact
COOS BAY The city of Coos Bay isn t throwing its support behind the proposed liquefied natural gas terminal project, but it could benefit from it. The City Council voted 5-1 Tuesday to sign a deal with Jordan Cove Energy Project that would allow th...
 2.7K - Nov. 4, 2009; scored 150.0 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 116.0 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 116.0 Painting the past
COOS BAY Cargo ships may dock less frequently in Coos Bay these days, but a local artist is making sure their presence remains unfaded. Landscape designer Mike Vaughan can t resuscitate the timber industry or entice an industrial developer to town....
3.5K - Oct. 14, 2009; scored 116.0 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 192.0 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 192.0 Proceed with caution on weed rules
In a car or a city council, the most important pedal is just left of the accelerator. Coos Bay s council was smart to hit the brakes this week on a proposal to clean up vacant lots. The proposed ordinance would outlaw grass and weeds taller than eigh...
1.8K - Oct. 8, 2009; scored 116.0 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 192.0 Bank of America closes office in CB
Bank of America is closing its downtown Coos Bay banking center early next year. In a letter sent to customers, the company states that its bank at 245 S. Fourth Street will be shuttered, limiting its services to the Pony Village Mall location on Vir...
1.8K - Oct. 7, 2009; scored 150.0 City opts for chamber help
COOS BAY The city of Coos Bay is keeping its visitor center manager after all. The City Council agreed to hire the Bay Area Chamber of Commerce to run the downtown building for $63,077. The new agreement will cost $10,000 more tha...
2.4K - Oct. 7, 2009; scored 150.0 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 736.0 Attacks, divisiveness have got to stop
We have known Coos Bay s Mayor Jeff McKeown all his life. He has continued his family tradition of making a difference in our community that his parents, Barbara and Joe, began. Both Jeff and his wife, Caddy, have put in countless hours as mayor and ...
1.5K - Sep. 26, 2009; scored 173.0 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 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 292.0 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 466.0 Gas tax is a no go
COOS BAY A week after trying to work with North Bend to impose a gas tax, the Coos Bay City Council nixed plans to even put it to a vote. By a 4-3 margin, councilors decided not to enact an ordinance that would have put a gas tax request before vot...
1.5K - Sep. 22, 2009; scored 173.0 Coos Bay city manager threatens mayor
COOS BAY - Coos Bay Mayor Jeff McKeown has called a special meeting to discuss the performance of the city s manager, Chuck Freeman. McKeown would not say why he wants to talk about Freeman, but at least one councilor suggested it is to fire him. McK...
5.6K - Sep. 22, 2009; scored 356.0 Howard files lawsuit against city
Coos Bay s former finance director has formally filed a lawsuit against the city and city manager, claiming her free speech rights were violated and that she was wrongfully terminated. Janell Howard, who now works as a finance director for Brookings,...
1.6K - Sep. 19, 2009; scored 150.0 City plans wayside in Empire
COOS BAY The Hollering Place doesn t have a private developer, but it has a public one. The city of Coos Bay is planning to solicit construction bids to build a wayside there next month. The Urban Renewal Agency asked city staffers to bring back a ...
2.2K - Sep. 17, 2009; scored 116.0 Coos Bay rejects gas tax - for now
COOS BAY Coos Bay city officials won t enact a gas tax this month, but they may refer the issue to voters in May. The city attorneys of Coos Bay and North Bend are working on an ordinance that would circumvent the state s moratorium on city-imposed...
2.3K - Sep. 16, 2009; scored 150.0 | 
