Train to be a Master Gardener
People with a strong interest in gardening, and who enjoy helping others, are invited to apply to become an Oregon State University Extension Service Master Gardener. Coos County-OSU Extension is accepting applications for training, which will begin ...
 1.2K - Nov. 10, 2009; scored 55.0 Train to be a master gardener
People with a strong interest in gardening, and who enjoy helping others, are invited to apply to become an Oregon State University Extension Service Master Gardener. Coos County-OSU Extension is accepting applications for training, which will begin ...
1.2K - Nov. 10, 2009; scored 55.0 Museum unpacks '150 Years of Toys'
NORTH BEND Only old-timers may remember Coquille s toy company. In the 1950s, Sturdi-Bilt produced metal logging trucks for children that is until cheaper toys appeared on the market, said Vicki Wiese, collections manager and interim director of ...
4.8K - Nov. 9, 2009; scored 255.0 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 55.0 10,000 children benefit from health plan
SALEM More than 10,000 children have been added to the state health plan under a new law aimed at expanding health insurance coverage to nearly every child in Oregon, officials said Tuesday. Cathy Kaufmann, manager of the program, said the sign-ups...
2.1K - Nov. 4, 2009; scored 105.0 Oregon should not keep illegals
I d like to add some information to the article Glitch delays plan to deport inmates (The World, Oct. 17). First, let me thank you for printing an article that notifies readers of an issue that is seldom addressed in the media. It deals with illega...
1.7K - Oct. 29, 2009; scored 83.0 Port's LNG site negotiations stall
COOS BAY Port officials agreed Thursday to move forward with plans to sell some property on the North Spit. More notable, perhaps, was the property transaction they all but ignored. The port commissioners agreed in principle to sell 30 acres of wet...
2.9K - Oct. 23, 2009; scored 55.0 Time is ticking on LNG deal
Port officials are trying to hammer out a new deal with Jordan Cove Energy Project before existing land sale agreements expire later this year. The Oregon International Port of Coos Bay has scheduled a special meeting at 1:15 p.m. Thursday to conside...
1.8K - Oct. 21, 2009; scored 83.0 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 105.0 WA congress wants NOAA move re-examined
SEATTLE (AP) Members of Washington state s congressional delegation are asking Commerce Secretary Gary Locke to re-examine the decision to move a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration base from Seattle to Newport. In a letter sent to Lock...
0.8K - Oct. 14, 2009; scored 72.0 FERC snubs Jordan Cove
COOS BAY The developers who d like to build a liquefied natural gas terminal in Coos County won t get to take their application before federal regulators this month. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission meets Thursday, but Jordan Cove Energy Pr...
2.8K - Oct. 12, 2009; scored 55.0 Volunteers clean up crab pots
REEDSPORT A handful of boats in Oregon s crabbing fleet returned to sea last week for one last hurrah. Their quarries were the derelict pots and buoys left behind this year by commercial crab boats. During a volunteer effort held nearly seven weeks...
3.1K - Oct. 10, 2009; scored 92.0 Faster than a speeding bullet
EUGENE (AP) Comic book superheroes such as Superman and Batman used to be little more than a guilty pleasure in American life, a cheap diversion loved by children and looked down on by their parents. No longer. For years now, the art world has embr...
5.2K - Oct. 6, 2009; scored 72.0 No choir? Millicoma students crowd band classes
COOS BAY Oregon s budget crisis has put Dominique Miller in the spotlight, at least during part of her school day. The sixth-grade student has taken up bass drumming, after the choir class she was in last year at Millicoma Intermediate School was c...
5.0K - Oct. 5, 2009; scored 55.0 Don't be misled; big biz isn t overtaxed
In response to the misinformation on the tax referendum, the minimum business tax has been $10 since the 1930s. That s almost 80 years ago. The cost of living and doing business has multiplied by the hundreds since then, yet the new minimum ...
2.3K - Oct. 3, 2009; scored 120.0 Day Planner
Ongoing PhotoZone Gallery Gallery One, 715 Quince St., Florence. Broadway Bound play Runs through Sept. 27., 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday matinee, Little Theatre on the Bay, 2100 Sherman Ave, North Bend. (756-4336, www.ltob.net ) Or...
7.4K - Sep. 25, 2009; scored 83.0 Washington State moves ahead with stadium expansion
SPOKANE, Wash. A football stadium expansion at Washington State University that was delayed by the economic slump will move forward. Athletics director Jim Sterk said Tuesday that big drops in construction costs thanks to the slowdown will allow th...
3.1K - Sep. 23, 2009; scored 72.0 DAY PLANNER
Ongoing Silent Auction Normal hours, Langlois Library. (541-348-2066) Oregon 150: Looking Back on Coos County 10 a.m.to 4 p.m., 1220 Sherman Ave., North Bend. $4; Children 11 and under, free. (756-6320) Today Bite of the Bay 6-10 ...
8.8K - Sep. 23, 2009; scored 83.0 Firefighters contain fire near Medford
MEDFORD (AP) A 150-acre fire that burned a home in Ashland has been contained, and firefighters have completed a line around the 630-acre fire in Medford s east hills. Oregon Department of Forestry spokesman Brian Ballou said this morning that fire...
1.6K - Sep. 22, 2009; scored 72.0 Day Planner
Ongoing PhotoZone Gallery Gallery One, 715 Quince St., Florence. Silent Auction Normal hours, Langlois Library. (541-348-2066) Oregon 150: Looking Back on Coos County 10 a.m.to 4 p.m., 1220 Sherman Ave., North Bend. $4; Children 1...
9.3K - Sep. 22, 2009; scored 72.0 | 
