Board member has a differing opinion
After reading the May 6 article concerning the hiring of the new president for Southwestern Oregon Community College, I was very disturbed about comments made by Marcia Jensen relating to our last hire Dr. Judith Hansen. This search for a new preside...
 1.1K - May. 16, 2009; scored 268.0 College board candidates state goals
Aims to finish projects Marcia Jensen This 59-year-old incumbent to the Southwestern Oregon Community College board of education has served in her position for nine years. She was appointed in August 2000. Born and raised in Coquille, she said she ha...
6.9K - May. 6, 2009; scored 320.0 College candidates define their goals
Wants focus on quality John Robert Shilling The 58-year-old Coos Bay resident has lived in Coos County for all but six years of his life, which he spent in Central Oregon. John Robert Shilling, SOCC Position 5 candidate He grew up in Coquille. Why ar...
11.4K - May. 5, 2009; scored 268.0 Barton has the skills to help the airport
At a time when this community desperately needs skilled and experienced leaders, Jon Barton has stepped forward to announce his candidacy for the Coos County Airport District Board of Directors. Jon has the background and experience needed to oversee...
0.7K - May. 2, 2009; scored 179.0 Airport steers toward smooth transition
A popular aviation proverb defines a good landing as any landing you can walk away from. The retirement of the North Bend airport's director fits that description. Gary LeTellier has been buffeted by turbulence both economic and political. Southwest ...
2.0K - Apr. 21, 2009; scored 179.0 Audit identifies college weaknesses
Southwestern Oregon Community College is working to rectify issues brought up in its recent audit that revealed a number of weaknesses and problems experienced under its prior administration. The audit, conducted by Wall Wall Certified Public Accou...
7.0K - Mar. 3, 2009; scored 231.0 October
Fishermen, conservationists at odds Fishermen clash with conservationists in October as the state considered 20 marine reserve proposals along the Oregon Coast, including a reserve at Cape Arago. Fishermen say the reserves threaten their livelihoods....
1.4K - Dec. 31, 2008; scored 179.0 June
SOCC's Hansen controvery comes to a boil Discontent with the local community college president balloons into a full-blown controversy in June. Though President Judith Hansen has succeeded at building relations between the Southwestern Oregon Communit...
1.3K - Dec. 31, 2008; scored 268.0 February
Storms uncover mystery shipwreck Day by day, wind and waves shift a mountain of sand on Horsfall Beach at Coos Bay, uncovering the 35-foot bow of a wooden-hulled vessel. Within days of news reports on the broken vessel, hundreds of people trek to the...
1.3K - Dec. 31, 2008; scored 179.0 New kind of guidance
COOS BAY Students don t drop by these days to visit Patty Scott in her new office on the fifth floor of Tioga Hall at Southwestern Oregon Community College. As dean of students, Scott used to have more contact with those enrolled at the college. Sh...
6.9K - Dec. 6, 2008; scored 179.0 College will cut jobs
COOS BAY Southwestern Oregon Community College will eliminate as many as 18 jobs as part of a plan to cover a $2.9 million budget shortfall. Under a plan approved by the college s board Monday, the school also will have to establish a &am...
6.8K - Nov. 11, 2008; scored 1000.0 | 
