Soldiers will have a brighter holiday
Operation Santa of the U.S. Marine Corps Family Foundation has started its sixth year of sewing and collecting stuffers for Christmas stockings to be sent to our troops in the Middle East. To kick off our project, a rummage sale, an event of Dining f...
 1.1K - Nov. 6, 2009; scored 330.0 Farmers grow electricity
WIMER Vern and Gianaclis Caldwell do a lot of the typical things that make a small farm self-sufficient. Besides the 40-some dwarf Nigerian goats they milk to make artisanal cheeses, they also raise chickens for meat and eggs, a steer for beef, hor...
4.3K - Nov. 2, 2009; scored 392.0 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 583.0 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 473.0 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 330.0 Vets visit 'war mom'
GREENACRES When the plane touched down in North Bend, the stewardess made an announcement over the loud-speaker. Instead of asking everyone to stay seated, she pointed out five soldiers on board and recognized them for their service, asking that th...
3.5K - Oct. 14, 2009; scored 392.0 Deadline extended for LNG comments
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Portland District is giving people more time to comment on the waterway aspect of the proposed liquefied natural gas pipeline at Coos Bay. The deadline now will be Dec. 27. The agency is taking comments on the applic...
1.7K - Sep. 29, 2009; scored 502.0 Growing the ranks
NORTHFIELD, Vt. Burgeoning ranks of Army ROTC students are filling college classrooms around the nation this fall as the Army seeks to beef up its officer corps with a generous scholarship program that pays the college tuition of students who are ...
6.6K - Sep. 21, 2009; scored 674.0 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 392.0 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 392.0 Donald Dunn
A celebration of life service will be held for Donald "Dwayne" Dunn, of Coos Bay, at 1 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 26, 2009, at the Eagle's No. 538 Aerie, 568 S. Second St. in Coos Bay. Cremation Rites were held at Ocean View Memory Gardens Crematorium i...
2.0K - Sep. 12, 2009; scored 330.0 Oregon State grad-turned Marine dies in Afghanistan
PORTLAND (AP) A 25-year-old graduate of Oregon State University was killed while supporting combat operations in Afghanistan. The Department of Defense announced the death of U.S. Marine First Lt. Michael E. Johnson. Johnson was born and raised in ...
0.6K - Sep. 11, 2009; scored 392.0 Reunions
Empire Grade School Anyone who attended the Empire Grade School is welcome to attend the yearly reunion at 11 a.m. Saturday at Simpson Park in North Bend. Lunch will be served at noon. Marshfield High Class of 1949 A no-host bar and dinner will be he...
2.9K - Sep. 11, 2009; scored 392.0 Reunions
Empire Grade School Anyone who attended the Empire Grade School is welcome to attend the yearly reunion at 11 a.m. on Sept. 12 at Simpson Park in North Bend. Lunch will be served at noon. Marshfield Class of 1949 A no-host bar and dinner will be held...
3.6K - Sep. 4, 2009; scored 392.0 Reunions
Bandon Class of 1959 Bandon High School Class of 1959 will hold its 50th class reunion today through Sunday, Aug. 28-30. At 5 p.m. today, classmates wll meet at campsite C34 at Bullards Beach for a campfire and potluck. The banquet event kicks off a...
4.7K - Aug. 28, 2009; scored 392.0 Reunions
Bandon Class of 1959 Bandon High School Class of 1959 will hold its 50th class reunion on Friday through Sunday, Aug. 28-30. Friday will be a catered dinner at the community center. Saturday will feature a potluck picnic at Bullards Beach Gazebo, at ...
4.5K - Aug. 22, 2009; scored 392.0 A day in the life of a Marine combat outpost
ANP HILL, Afghanistan Cpl. Justin Thompson crawled out of his rat hole dug deep into a wind-beaten, barren hilltop. Stepping over mounds of protective sand bags, he watched the sun rise over the Now Zad valley, a Taliban stronghold. Thompson is par...
6.4K - Aug. 15, 2009; scored 660.0 Reunions
Marshfield High Class of 1951 Classmates of the Marshfield High School Class of 1951 are invited to attend a no-host pizza dinner at Abby s Pizza on South Broadway, Coos Bay at 5 tonight. A no-host picnic will be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday at Simpso...
6.1K - Aug. 14, 2009; scored 435.0 Marines assault Taliban town
DAHANEH, Afghanistan (AP) Helicopter-borne U.S. Marines backed by Harrier jets stormed a Taliban-held town in southern Afghanistan before dawn today, the launch of a new operation to uproot Taliban fighters from a longtime base and provide security...
7.0K - Aug. 12, 2009; scored 1000.0 Doris Beverly Andrews
A celebration of life will be held for Doris B. Andrews, 79, of North Bend, at 2 p.m., Saturday, Aug. 15, at a rental home located at 61131 Old Wagon Road in Coos Bay. Chaplain John Sheese of South Coast Hospice and Palliative Care will lead the serv...
2.0K - Aug. 12, 2009; scored 330.0 | 
