Hold onto your hat - a storm's coming
Batten down the hatches and check those mooring lines. Head to Shore Acres State Park, not the beaches, to watch the big surf rolling in. Forecasters say a big storm s on the way. On Wednesday, they were busy sending out notices: There s a high wind ...
 2.6K - Nov. 5, 2009; scored 71.0 Bandon runs a fiscally tight ship
It was with interest I read Jim Giambrone s letter (The World, Oct. 27). This is the same man who tried to coerce the city s budget committee into hiring an eighth officer two years ago. Police Chief Bob Webb told us there were other things he needed...
2.6K - Oct. 30, 2009; scored 112.0 Bandon avoided investing in police
If the city s first goal is public safety, then why is the council only committed to funding four of six police positions? Why was there a cut from seven officers? For years the city manager has tried to cut policing. In 2006, I explored raising our ...
2.3K - Oct. 27, 2009; scored 71.0 Columbia River commerce protected by weakened wall
ASTORIA (AP) It s a mild October morning on the Oregon Coast. Yet, even on a windless day with the ocean glassy smooth, it s a rough ride at the point where the Columbia River smashes into the Pacific Ocean. A 60-ton boat, designed to ferry elite p...
6.7K - Oct. 26, 2009; scored 772.0 A wave of new work in Bandon
BANDON The rainy season won t stop the Port of Bandon from taking the next step along its riverwalk theme landscaping project. City crews will begin deconstructing the extra-wide sidewalk that runs along the north side of First Street Southwest bet...
2.1K - Oct. 20, 2009; scored 71.0 Coast Guard awards lifesavers
CHARLESTON Eight months after rescuing an elderly man near the Coos Bay jetties, two U.S. Coast Guard deputies have emerged from the ranks to receive achievement medals. They call us guardians, because we protect the public, Capt. Scott Kitchen sa...
2.3K - Oct. 18, 2009; scored 71.0 Coast Guard awards lifesavers
CHARLESTON Eight months after rescuing an elderly man near the Coos Bay jetties, two U.S. Coast Guard deputies have emerged from the ranks to receive achievement medals. They call us guardians, because we protect the public, Capt. Scott Kitchen sa...
2.3K - Oct. 17, 2009; scored 71.0 Bandon Fishing Report
Local lakes: Last week, Bradley Lake near Bandon was stocked with 1,000 2-pound trophy-size rainbow trout. Plenty of anglers fished the lake last weekend, but we hadn t received any updated reports as of Tuesday. Five 20-foot lengths of floating doc...
2.8K - Oct. 16, 2009; scored 71.0 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 71.0 State OKs shellfish harvest on South Coast
SALEM (AP) Health officials have reopened Pacific coastal beaches for recreational razor clamming from the south jetty of Yaquina Bay down to the California border. The state Monday also approved recreational mussel harvesting from Bastendorff Beac...
0.8K - Oct. 13, 2009; scored 112.0 Thefts and Mischief
The following are theft and criminal mischief reports from police logs. Coos Bay Sept. 23, 3:07 a.m., shots were heard in the 1000 block of 11th Street. Sept. 23, 10:05 a.m., a hit-and-run crash was reported in the 1000 block of Woodland Drive. Sept....
1.3K - Sep. 24, 2009; scored 71.0 Thefts and Mischief
The following are theft and criminal mischief reports from police logs. Coos Bay Sept. 10, 4:52 p.m., a drunken man was passed out in the Pedway in the 200 block of Broadway. Sept. 10, 5:57 p.m., two cars collided near 10th St. and Central Ave. No on...
1.4K - Sep. 12, 2009; scored 71.0 Coast Guard disputes delay at Bandon
BANDON A U.S. Coast Guard rescue case on Saturday has people in Bandon debating whether the agency responded quickly enough to save four kayakers dumped in the water while crossing the Coquille River bar. All four were fine, but some witnesses cont...
3.9K - Sep. 10, 2009; scored 185.0 Man dies in ATV crash on dunes
One Eugene man is dead and a woman is seriously injured after an ATV crash Saturday night in the South Jetty Dune Recreation Area south of Florence. At 11:30 p.m., a Lane County sheriff s deputy saw a 2008 Yamaha 700cc ATV carrying two occupants cras...
0.8K - Sep. 8, 2009; scored 71.0 Coast Guard rescues four
Bandon s U.S. Coast Guard Search and Rescue Station members closed out the season with the rescue of two kayakers and a surfer. The station, which operates Memorial Weekend through the Labor Day holiday, received a call at 5:30 p.m. Saturday that two...
1.0K - Sep. 8, 2009; scored 112.0 Mussels safe on South Coast
South of Agate Beach in Newport to the California border is now open for all recreational mussel harvest, as announced by the Oregon Department of Agriculture. Shellfish samples taken last week indicate levels of Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning (PSP) t...
0.9K - Sep. 5, 2009; scored 71.0 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 71.0 State OKs mussel harvest
The state has opened the recreational mussel harvest from Newport to the California border. Shellfish samples taken last week show paralytic shellfish poisoning toxins have dropped below the alert level. Mussel harvesting north of Newport s Agate Bea...
1.0K - Sep. 2, 2009; scored 71.0 Day Planner
Ongoing Three Generations of Artists Exhibit Through Sept. 4, Gallery by the Bay, 2100 Union, North Bend. (267-2693) National Watercolor Society exhibition Through Sept. 26, Coos Art Musuem, 235 Anderson Ave., Coos Bay. (267-3901) Susan Applegate...
6.7K - Aug. 29, 2009; scored 71.0 Day Planner
Ongoing Three Generations of Artists Exhibit Through Sept. 4, Gallery by the Bay, 2100 Union, North Bend. (267-2693) National Watercolor Society exhibition Through Sept. 26, Coos Art Museum, 235 Anderson Ave., Coos Bay. (267-2693) Susan Applegate...
5.3K - Aug. 28, 2009; scored 71.0 | 
