Great photos, cartoon change
Not being much of a Kudos person, I was moved to send you this letter in thanks for the beautiful Moon-shot photo in the Nov. 3 issue of The World by Lou Sennick. He is truly a photo master. I love his action shots in the Sports section. The World...
 1.0K - Nov. 9, 2009; scored 249.0 Crown of flames
Dana Crosby, a senior at North Bend High School was crowned Miss Flame during halftime activities during the football game against the visitors from Sweet Home on Oct. 2. The contest has been put on by the North Bend Fire Department since 1957. World...
0.4K - Oct. 9, 2009; scored 249.0 A walk through Mingus Park
World Photo by Lou Sennick Two walkers take advantage of the sunshine and warm temperatures to stroll around the Mingus Park Pond on Monday afternoon as temperatures soared on the last official day of summer....
0.3K - Sep. 24, 2009; scored 249.0 A public place is public
The 21st century is a scary time to be a parent. News reports about child abductions, pedophiles and online stalkers keep everyone on edge. One nervous mom e-mailed me last week. We had published several photos of children being given fishing poles a...
2.9K - Aug. 17, 2009; scored 249.0 Love and regret: A dying dad shares his story - and a lesson
Gordon Everett desperately wants to be here for his daughter Piper s sixth birthday. It could be the last one he celebrates with her. Unless it turns out her fifth birthday was the last one. And that s a day he d just as soon forget. On Feb. 18, 2009...
3.5K - Jul. 23, 2009; scored 394.0 Swimming to the outer limits
NORTH BEND Two lanes were reserved at the North Bend Municipal Pool for some very important work. Two airmen from the U.S. Coast Guard Group Air Station North Bend were finishing their physical testing, hoping to become future aviation survival techn...
1.5K - Jul. 18, 2009; scored 249.0 Slug by slug, weed by weed
Katie Whitty can't get enough of Millicoma Intermediate School. Once a week, the ex-fifth grader heads back to school with her mother, Shannon Gutierrez, for some summer work. They don't have to go into the building or take any tests or anything like...
1.4K - Jul. 1, 2009; scored 1000.0 Volunteers fulfill fallen soldier's wish
NORTH BEND A steady stream of flat-rate postal boxes have been heading out of North Bend each month and heading for Germany and Afghanistan. All the boxes Bernie Swenson mails each month contain hats, scarves, gloves and other things for wounded so...
4.7K - Jun. 10, 2009; scored 249.0 They saw fire in the sky
It was a typical day. Bert Long and a few other students were on their way home from school. C. Elwood Mitchell was sitting on the back porch of his Monroe Street home in North Bend. Both were students at North Bend High School when on that clear day...
2.9K - May. 27, 2009; scored 1000.0 Moving right along
A plodding metamorphosis is under way at the site of one of Coos County's best-known landmarks. Tedd Bennison, the on-site supervisor for the Oregon Department of Transportation's McCullough Bridge restoration project, said Great Western Corp. worker...
0.8K - Apr. 2, 2009; scored 249.0 Despite recent crimes, residents say Coquille's still just a friendly town
COQUILLE The police radio never crackled during the early part of Thursday evening. Officer Ray McNeely, a 3 1/2 -year veteran of the Coquille Police Department, cruised around town. He checked the high school, neighborhoods and downtown areas. Not...
5.5K - Mar. 14, 2009; scored 249.0 'Balloon bomb shot down over NB'
It was on the front page of the Coos Bay Times on Feb. 22, 1945 the battle rages on Iwo Jima. 4,553 Marine Casualties on Iwo Jima the headline said. That the was time the Oregon Woolen Store advertised 100% Wool Worsted suits from $32.5...
2.7K - Feb. 18, 2009; scored 1000.0 'Balloon bomb shot down over NB'
It was on the front page of the Coos Bay Times on Feb. 22, 1945 the battle rages on Iwo Jima. 4,553 Marine Casualties on Iwo Jima the headline said. That the was time the Oregon Woolen Store advertised 100% Wool Worsted suits from $32.5...
2.7K - Feb. 18, 2009; scored 1000.0 Tires burn in Fairview
FAIRVIEW This was no training drill. Volunteers with the Fairview Rural Fire Protection District were rousted out of bed early Wednesday to head out to a fire in a ditch alongside Fairview Road at mile marker 12. Chief Virgil Williams said when the...
2.2K - Jan. 29, 2009; scored 1000.0 The kindest cut of all - a gift for kids
NORTH BEND Hannah Pickett turns five next week, but this week, she s giving someone else the present. Tuesday afternoon, she had her first haircut. She arrived at 1 p.m. at the beauty salon inside Inland Point Assisted Living Residence and met up w...
1.7K - Jan. 21, 2009; scored 1000.0 Getting set to repair the jetty
Contractor Kerr Construction, of Woodburn, is set to begin work on a weather-damaged portion of the north jetty at the mouth of Coos Bay as early as Jan. 23, a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers spokesman said today. Repair work was originally scheduled fo...
0.6K - Jan. 13, 2009; scored 249.0 Rail closure still pinches businesses
Central Oregon Pacific Railroad s decision to close the Coos Bay rail line didn t just limit transportation options from the South Coast to Eugene. It has turned a Reedsport business with contacts throughout the Midwest into a purely regional inter...
4.2K - Jan. 10, 2009; scored 249.0 Port replaces ailing harbor docks
The Charleston Marina is all about water, so it probably wasn t surprising to maintenance crews replacing part of F Dock that they worked in the rain this week. Aaron Simons, the Charleston Harbormaster for the Oregon International Port of Coos Bay s...
1.3K - Jan. 7, 2009; scored 1000.0 Students volunteer at mission
Lighthouse School students had a desire to help the Bay Area s homeless. The Hauser school s student council listened and got involved. Tim Neeno, the council s adviser and a teacher at the school, started making the rounds at local agencies and Co...
1.5K - Dec. 20, 2008; scored 1000.0 Searching the shallows
An egret searches for a meal in shallow water on Coos Bay Wednesday. The bird was hunting around the old piles that once held up the former Central Dock building over the water along Front Street in Coos Bay. World Photo by Lou Sennick...
0.3K - Dec. 18, 2008; scored 249.0 | 
