Recall goes to voters
Lakeside residents will have a chance to recall their entire city council and mayor. Coos County elections officials have scheduled a recall election for Tuesday, Nov. 17, after recall petitioners submitted enough signatures to put Mayor Orville Nels...
 1.2K - Oct. 23, 2009; scored 158.0 Former councilors worked very hard
I believe it is time for me to address some of the troubles in Lakeside as written in the recent The World newspaper, North County News and on the Web site lakesideinfo.com . I do take responsibility for the meeting getting out of control on Aug. 13...
2.2K - Sep. 16, 2009; scored 492.0 Total recall
LAKESIDE - The city of Lakeside could be without a council by late December, if two recall efforts successfully push all six councilors and the mayor out of their seats. Although they don t agree across the board, the majority of the councilors on bo...
4.8K - Sep. 15, 2009; scored 203.0 Consider council's accomplishments
I, along with four other councilors promised you an open and transparent government when we were elected in November 2008. This is not what Mayor Orville Nelson and one councilor were hoping for. They prefer the way it was with the last council. The ...
2.5K - Sep. 3, 2009; scored 194.0 Savory subjects
LAKESIDE Frosted cupcakes and library books hardly seem like a harmonious match. Mixed with the warring political factions in the city of lakeside, it all sounds like a downright disaster. But during the last session of the Lakeside Public Library ...
4.7K - Aug. 28, 2009; scored 158.0 Savory subjects
LAKESIDE Frosted cupcakes and library books hardly seem like a harmonious match. Mixed with the warring political factions in the city of lakeside, it all sounds like a downright disaster. But during the last session of the Lakeside Public Library ...
4.9K - Aug. 27, 2009; scored 158.0 Lakeside Senior Center faces financial challenge
LAKESIDE The city doesn t consider it a rent increase. But no matter what they call it, the Lakeside Senior Center will pay $92 more each month to host senior activities at city facilities. Kathy Gould, president of the center, said the ce...
3.7K - Aug. 26, 2009; scored 685.0 Lakeside has lost every bit of luster
My husband and I came into town for the weekend for the boat races and with the intention of looking for property in Lakeside to purchase. Thursday night, Aug. 13, we drove by city hall and saw all the cars and went in to see what was going on. Appar...
1.0K - Aug. 22, 2009; scored 123.0 Don't let a small opposition rule
When the city council of 2007-08 was elected, we were supported by a group of people we honestly believed wanted to help the citizens of Lakeside. We soon discovered they only wanted puppets, which would do everything they were told to do. It was a...
1.8K - Aug. 18, 2009; scored 123.0 City misses out on police grant
LAKESIDE Crime in Lakeside soon could be on the rise and back out in the open if the town can t find a way to pay for the sheriff s deputy who has patrolled its streets since October 2008. While city officials would like to continue a deal with the...
2.2K - Aug. 14, 2009; scored 123.0 Lakeside council meeting gets contentious
LAKESIDE Pointing fingers. Name-calling. Shouting. Sounds more like a playground tussle than a meeting of civic leaders. But that was definitely the environment of Thursday s Lakeside City Council meeting, as councilors, the mayor, and citizens lau...
1.6K - Aug. 14, 2009; scored 158.0 Worker saves Lakeside money
When Philip Heley was hired to work at the Lakeside wastewater plant, he was hired to get the plant back into shape and be over the new construction. In the beginning, there was no time for him to do anything other than work on the construction. Mayo...
2.4K - Aug. 5, 2009; scored 269.0 Lakeside and prison are improving service
I have been with the Oregon Department of Corrections at the Shutter Creek Correctional Institution as physical plant manager for almost 20 years. I was actually the first employee hired on Feb. 2, 1990. I was here to watch the sewer system and sewer...
2.3K - Jul. 25, 2009; scored 194.0 Lakeside council should help seniors
I have been asked Who do the politicians work for? several times in the past few months. My thoughts are that a politician should do what is best for the majority of the people. In our town the majority is retired and/or senior citizens. When I ran...
2.3K - Jul. 25, 2009; scored 123.0 Community campaigns to keep deputy on patrol
LAKESIDE Eighth Street Grill owner Joe Pepper can watch much of what happens in Lakeside from his restaurant window, criminal or otherwise. His view of crime has changed over the past year, since Coos County Sheriff s Deputy Scott Moore started pat...
3.0K - Jul. 14, 2009; scored 158.0 Best cure for speeders: tickets
We build roads to move people efficiently and safely from one place to another. That's true for U.S. Highway 101, and it's why the Oregon Department of Transportation shouldn't cut the speed limit past Lakeside. Some Lakeside residents want the thous...
1.9K - May. 1, 2009; scored 123.0 Life in the slow lane
LAKESIDE - The saying If you blink, you'll miss it could apply to the portion of Lakeside along U.S. Highway 101. The community's size isn't the only reason, city officials and business owners say. Some of it is how fast people drive through town....
4.2K - Apr. 23, 2009; scored 724.0 Lakeside needs money to keep deputy
LAKESIDE Deputy Scott Moore made his presence known in Lakeside quickly. He won a chili cooking contest. Some residents aren t too happy about it. They want a rematch. Moore is the Coos County sheriff s deputy who has been patrolling the city 40 ho...
3.3K - Feb. 23, 2009; scored 183.0 Let s hope this inmate lives up to expectations
Orville Nelson provided Nicholas Mason with a great gift and a tremendous burden the chance to avoid years in prison and the challenge to improve his life. The elderly Nelson was a victim, broken and battered by Mason s heedless crime. Almost four ...
2.2K - Jan. 8, 2009; scored 1000.0 Mayor seeks leniency for driver
COQUILLE Nicholas Mason, the man who critically injured Lakeside s mayor after smashing into him with a pickup in September, will spend far less time behind bars than sentencing guidelines recommend for his crime. He has Lakeside Mayor Orville Nels...
5.5K - Jan. 6, 2009; scored 992.0 | 
