Veteran talks about stress disorder
I didn t have issues. There were just stupid people around me doing stupid things, Eddie Black told about 50 people at Southwestern Oregon Community College on Tuesday night. That s how Black felt when he returned home from serving in Baghdad, Iraq,...
 3.0K - Oct. 28, 2009; scored 138.0 Food Agencies Need Help
The need for food by agencies that help the people in our communities continues all year long. The following are food pantries and distribution programs on the South Coast. Bandon Good Neighbors 347-3268 Salvation Army, Coos Bay Corps 888-5202 Br...
1.4K - Oct. 9, 2009; scored 116.0 Pantries seek food donations
The need for food by agencies that help the people in our communities continues all year long. The following are food pantries and distribution programs on the South Coast that provide food for families and individuals. Bandon Good Neighbors ...
1.4K - Sep. 26, 2009; scored 116.0 Friction builds in county office under Colby
People have three choices. That s how Coos County Assessor Adam Colby views life. No. 1, you can adapt to the situation you re in, he said. No. 2, you can choose to go somewhere else. No. 3, you can work hard, do a good job and become the leader. C...
5.9K - Sep. 21, 2009; scored 116.0 Conflicting assessments
People have three choices. That s how Coos County Assessor Adam Colby views life. No. 1, you can adapt to the situation you re in, he said. No. 2, you can choose to go somewhere else. No. 3, you can work hard, do a good job and become the leader. C...
6.9K - Sep. 19, 2009; scored 154.0 Food banks seek donations
The need for food by agencies that help the people in our communities continues all year long. The following are food pantries and distribution programs on the South Coast. For more information, those interested can call Oregon Coast Community Action...
1.4K - Aug. 7, 2009; scored 116.0 Politics is all about persuasion
The story was what journalism s old-timers call a coffee spitter. We imagine readers choking at the news that politicians in San Francisco were poking their noses into the Coos Bay area s liquefied natural gas issue. But the story really isn t so o...
2.1K - Aug. 5, 2009; scored 138.0 Politics is all about persuasion
The story was what journalism s old-timers call a coffee spitter. We imagine readers choking at the news that politicians in San Francisco were poking their noses into the Coos Bay area s liquefied natural gas issue. But the story really isn t so o...
2.3K - Aug. 4, 2009; scored 138.0 California officials blast Coos Bay LNG proposal
Local opponents of developing a liquefied natural gas project and an ancillary pipeline have found allies in another Bay Area. San Francisco's Board of Supervisors unanimously passed a resolution this week asking Pacific Gas Electric Corp. to withd...
5.6K - Jul. 31, 2009; scored 194.0 Bend: 'poverty with a view'
BEND This city in Oregon's scenic high desert once had one of the nation's hottest economies. Resort developers, bankers, construction workers and luxury car dealers rushed for a piece of the action. Now some locals call Bend poverty with a view....
7.2K - Jul. 20, 2009; scored 186.0 Food banks need food, volunteers
The need for food by agencies that help the people in our communities continues all year long. The following are food pantries and distribution programs on the South Coast. For more information, those interested can call Oregon Coast Community Action...
1.2K - Jul. 3, 2009; scored 116.0 People must stand for development
The public opinion letter by John Briggs (Public Forum, May 19) was on target. Our commissioners need to finalize the process with Oregon Resources Corp. The cartoon next to Mr. Briggs opinion was fitting. A young person is telling a friend, I can ...
2.3K - Jun. 13, 2009; scored 116.0 No way to justify road expense
There are more Coos County Board of Commissioners broken promises regarding giving our tax monies to assist Oregon Resources Corp. and Weyerhaeuser to complete their chromite mining agreement. In February 2009, new Commissioner Bob Main was informed...
2.5K - Jun. 2, 2009; scored 138.0 ORC has ignored its neighbors
A reasonable person looking at the recent history of Oregon Resources Corp. and its efforts to strip mine 360 acres of coastal forest near Bandon might wonder how they got themselves into such a pickle. They are facing delayed or uncertain regulatory...
2.6K - Jun. 2, 2009; scored 116.0 Geology speech looks at seafloors
Microbes and Volcanoes: A Tale from the Seafloor is the topic for the final talk in the Geology Lecture Series at South-western Oregon Community College next week. Dr. Hubert Staudigel, lead research scientist and lecturer at Scripps Institution of ...
1.2K - May. 18, 2009; scored 138.0 Stufflebean's own words explain it
Kevin Stufflebean said (at a Feb. 3 meeting of the county commissioners, Oregon Resources Corp. and South Coast Development Council): With the road everything is moving forward really well with what we are doing on West Beaver Hill. If everyone has b...
2.0K - May. 12, 2009; scored 216.0 Group opposes toxin study
COQUILLE - Residents of the Seven Devils area near Bandon have sought to prevent development of a chromite mining operation for more than two years, with their latest argument focusing on how one of Oregon Resources Corp.'s own studies show a toxic s...
4.2K - May. 5, 2009; scored 228.0 Donations needed
The need for food by agencies that help the people in our communities continues all year long. The following are food pantries and distribution programs on the South Coast. For more information, those interested can call Oregon Coast Community Action...
1.2K - May. 1, 2009; scored 116.0 Geologist to speak about mining in area
The Coos County Board of Commissioners will hold a work session on Friday with Gold Beach geologist Russell Ralls to discuss the mining history of the area. The talk comes in response to Oregon Resources Corp. s plans to mine on county land. Commissi...
0.6K - Apr. 30, 2009; scored 116.0 Chromite mining company answers questions
The Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries is moving forward with processing a permit for Oregon Resources Corp. to mine land in Coos County. The company needs the permit before it can begin mining chromite, zircon and garnet on five sit...
1.8K - Apr. 29, 2009; scored 255.0 | 
