Willamette Queen runs aground near Salem
SALEM (AP) The U.S. Coast Guard says the Willamette Queen sternwheeler has run aground near Salem. Twenty-two passengers were removed from the vessel Monday while the captain and engineer stayed on board to monitor the situation....
 0.3K - Nov. 10, 2009; scored 175.0 Sailboat ran aground
Question: What is the story behind the sailboat in Coos River between the area of TnT Market and Sause Bros. barge facility? We noticed it on Oct. 30. At first it looked like it was beached, but then it was on its side taking on water. Answer: The U....
1.3K - Nov. 7, 2009; scored 175.0 COMING SOON
Today Coast Guard honors veterans at parade Representatives of the Siuslaw Station of the U.S. Coast Guard will be the grand marshall of the Veteran s Day Parade in Florence and will host an open house at the U.S. Coast Guard Station in Florence foll...
2.2K - Nov. 6, 2009; scored 406.0 Georgiana Gamble Smithers
A celebration of life will be held for Georgiana Gamble Smithers, 81, of Coos Bay, at 10:30 a.m., Wednesday, Nov. 4, at Emmanuel Episcopal Church, Fourth and Highland in Coos Bay. The service and sacrament will be officiated by the Rev. Stephen Tyson...
4.2K - Nov. 3, 2009; scored 241.0 Fisherman presumed drowned in Sandy River
PORTLAND (AP) Authorities have called off weekend rescue operations for a fisherman swept down the Sandy River in Clackamas County. The sheriff s department says 55-year-old Yevhen Savchenko is presumed drowned. He and his 16-year-old son, Olexande...
0.7K - Nov. 2, 2009; scored 175.0 Boat sinks, fuel spills in Yaquina Bay
NEWPORT (AP) Authorities say about 30 gallons of diesel fuel has spilled into Yaquina (yuh-KEEN-uh) Bay as a wooden fishing boat sank. The bay is a prized wildlife habitat and houses the Oregon Coast Aquarium. Cleanup workers put booms around the s...
0.6K - Nov. 2, 2009; scored 208.0 Coast Guard suspends search for survivors in military aircraft crash; investigation continues
LOS ANGELES (AP) With the possibility of finding survivors all but gone and the ocean search shifted from a rescue effort to a recovery mission, focus fell today on what caused a Marine Corps helicopter and U.S. Coast Guard plane to collide over th...
1.2K - Nov. 2, 2009; scored 360.0 Search resumes for Navy plane, two pilots off Texas
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) The U.S. Coast Guard has resumed its search for two missing Navy pilots and their plane along the central Texas coast. The search had to be suspended Thursday night because of stormy weather. Petty Officer Charles Reaves ...
0.8K - Oct. 30, 2009; scored 208.0 Plane, copter collide
LOS ANGELES (AP) The U.S. Coast Guard and Navy were searching early today for as many as nine people off the Southern California coast following a collision between a Coast Guard plane and a Marine Corps helicopter, officials said. The crash was re...
2.4K - Oct. 30, 2009; scored 474.0 Coast Guard helps with sick seabirds
U.S. Coast Guard members helped rescue hundreds of crippled migratory birds on the coast Monday. The birds were ailing after being exposed to a red tide along the coasts of Oregon and Washington. A Coast Guard aircraft from Sacramento, Calif., transp...
2.1K - Oct. 28, 2009; scored 312.0 Naturalist lectures at OIMB
The Oregon Institute of Marine Biology is hosting a public lecture on Zoophytes, barnacles, iguanas and reefs; recollections of a salt-water naturalist on Friday. Dr. Craig Young will present the program at 7 p.m. in the OIMB Boathouse Auditorium....
1.3K - Oct. 26, 2009; scored 175.0 What happened to the flags in front of the Coast Guard building?
Question: I want to know why the flags (both military and American) are not flying in front of the U.S. Coast Guard Exchange building anymore. Answer: The U.S. Coast Guard Exchange building in Coos Bay took down its flags because of the harsh Orego...
1.2K - Oct. 22, 2009; scored 299.0 Marine patrol honored for communication
The state has honored the Coos County Marine Patrol Program with its top honor for communication and administration over the 2009 boating season. The Oregon State Marine Board presented the marine patrol with the Yearly Administrative Award of Excell...
1.3K - Oct. 21, 2009; scored 175.0 A wave of new work in Bandon
BANDON The rainy season won t stop the Port of Bandon from taking the next step along its riverwalk theme landscaping project. City crews will begin deconstructing the extra-wide sidewalk that runs along the north side of First Street Southwest bet...
2.1K - Oct. 20, 2009; scored 276.0 Rescuers pull woman off bridge
A North Bend woman went to Bay Area Hospital on Friday night after U.S. Coast Guard seaman rescued her, as she was clinging to a railroad bridge support beam. At about 5:51 p.m., North Bend police received a transferred emergency call from a tug boat...
1.2K - Oct. 19, 2009; scored 289.0 Coast Guard awards lifesavers
CHARLESTON Eight months after rescuing an elderly man near the Coos Bay jetties, two U.S. Coast Guard deputies have emerged from the ranks to receive achievement medals. They call us guardians, because we protect the public, Capt. Scott Kitchen sa...
2.3K - Oct. 18, 2009; scored 241.0 Coast Guard awards lifesavers
CHARLESTON Eight months after rescuing an elderly man near the Coos Bay jetties, two U.S. Coast Guard deputies have emerged from the ranks to receive achievement medals. They call us guardians, because we protect the public, Capt. Scott Kitchen sa...
2.3K - Oct. 17, 2009; scored 241.0 Myrtle Point Hall of Fame capsules
Frank Grove (Coach): Grove graduated in 1944 from Powers High School, where he was a member of the 1944 state champion basketball team, and served in the Navy from 1944 to 1946. He competed in basketball and track and field for two years each at Lew...
8.6K - Oct. 10, 2009; scored 230.0 Cooking at sea
ASTORIA When instructor Darryl McKnight looks at a full kitchen of students in his galley cook class, he knows that they ve all got at least one thing in common: They all eat. And a good thing too, because he ll use that one shared thread as a star...
4.1K - Oct. 6, 2009; scored 360.0 Orcas crew returns to area
A Coos Bay U.S. Coast Guard crew returned home this week, after sailing 3,000 miles to Baltimore aboard the Cutter Orcas. But they came home without their ship. The 18-person squad set off on the Aug. 1 deployment, taking them through the Panama Cana...
1.1K - Oct. 3, 2009; scored 289.0 | 
