Quiznos, Koos News and a motel makeover
After three months of reporting on business news, my higher ups have encouraged (forced) me to start a column, with the purpose of highlighting all the free market happenings in our community. Here s how you can make my job easy: Submit anything and ...
 4.2K - Nov. 6, 2009; scored 95.0 Off the shelf
South Coast readers often have different reading preferences than those elsewhere. Here are the top-five sellers this week at Books By the Bay in North Bend, according to owner Trish Price: Find out what medical examiner extraordinaire is up to in ...
1.1K - Nov. 6, 2009; scored 60.0 Scene & Heard
Concerts This weekend Ambush Blue Moon. Classic rock. 9 p.m. Friday and Saturday. www.dbabluemoon.com . Battle of the Bands Three Rivers. Competition runs Nov. 6-Dec. 12. 8:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays. Prize is contract to perform regularly at...
10.8K - Nov. 6, 2009; scored 253.0 Going Out
Theater etc. This weekend Coastal Douglas Has Talent!, a talent show and fundraiser for the Reedsport Rotary Club, will be held at 6 p.m. Saturday at Pacific Auditorium in Reedsport. About a dozen performers of a variety of ages will compete, and PBA...
4.4K - Nov. 6, 2009; scored 121.0 No fool left behind
NORTH BEND No one planned a Neil Simon festival in North Bend, but with productions of four of his plays scheduled in six months, it sure seems that way. There are two each at Little Theatre on the Bay and North Bend High School, and directors at b...
4.5K - Nov. 6, 2009; scored 435.0 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 121.0 Man fatally shot by ex-wife after breaking into her house
REDMOND (AP) A man was shot and killed by his ex-wife after he broke into her house in Redmond and tried to attack her with an improvised weapon as she defended her children, authorities said. Patrick S. Hankins, 41, of Bend, was fatally shot We...
1.6K - Nov. 6, 2009; scored 95.0 Poets give reading at NB library
Northwest poets Gary Adams and Bill Siverly give a free reading at 1 p.m. Saturday at the North Bend Public Library. Siverly s latest book is Clearwater Way (2009), poems inspired by the Wasco myth cycle about Coyote, and the authors experiences alo...
1.4K - Nov. 6, 2009; scored 312.0 Rain drenches area
North Bend street department workers spent several hours Thursday night clearing plugged drains and standing water from several city streets. Water was standing on a gravel road on California Street, as well as on Colorado and Johnson, said Bob Dill...
0.8K - Nov. 6, 2009; scored 242.0 Works of the Northwest
Northwest poets Gary Adams and Bill Siverly give a free reading at 1 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 7, at the North Bend Public Library. Siverly s latest book is Clearwater Way (2009), poems inspired by the Wasco myth cycle about Coyote, and the authors experi...
1.4K - Nov. 6, 2009; scored 95.0 There is a lot to account for when choosing a bookkeeping program
Arlene Soto There are hundreds of accounting systems available. Sure, they range from simple to complex, manual to computerized, and inexpensive to thousands of dollars, but don t let it scare you. You can choose a good system for your business, if y...
3.2K - Nov. 6, 2009; scored 60.0 Girls set new standard for excellence
PORTLAND In Oregon high school girls cross country, 19 is becoming the new 20. Over the past 10 years, there has been remarkable growth in the number of girls who can cover 5,000-meter cross country courses in less than 20 minutes. Once a benchmark...
5.5K - Nov. 6, 2009; scored 60.0 NB boys surge into soccer playoffs
NORTH BEND When Todd Ransom took over as coach of the North Bend boys soccer team after Blaine Deming retired last spring, someone suggested to him this would be a rebuilding year. I said, We ll see, Ransom recalled Wednesday. I m competitive a...
3.3K - Nov. 5, 2009; scored 192.0 Bulldogs reverse fortunes
NORTH BEND In two seasons, North Bend s girls soccer team has gone from being the worst team in the Far West League to qualifying for the Class 4A-3A-2A-1A playoffs. The amazing turnaround has North Bend celebrating its first trip to the playoffs s...
3.6K - Nov. 5, 2009; scored 209.0 Pirates can share league title with win
Marshfield has come a long way since a loss to Churchill to open the Midwestern League season. After three straight wins, the Pirates have a chance to tie for the league title when they host Thurston in the regular-season finale Friday. We re excited...
2.5K - Nov. 5, 2009; scored 60.0 Pirates seek spot in state tournament
Marshfield s volleyball players want to prove themselves in the postseason this year, as they travel to Summit on Saturday in the Class 5A playoffs. After losing to Mountain View in the second round last season, the Pirates want to get past that hurd...
2.8K - Nov. 5, 2009; scored 60.0 North Bend finds way back to top
NORTH BEND Katie Banta has seen the highs and lows of volleyball during her career at North Bend High School. She and teammate Alexandra Mateski were on the bench four years ago when the Bulldogs won their only state title in volleyball. A year lat...
3.5K - Nov. 5, 2009; scored 524.0 Perspectives vary on offensive words
I m not sure where to go with this, being a half-breed raised as a white girl here locally, and not let into my actual ancestry until I was in my 50s, which was a few years back. I still have no cause to be offended by the word squaw to describe th...
0.7K - Nov. 5, 2009; scored 60.0 Hold onto your hat - a storm's coming
Batten down the hatches and check those mooring lines. Head to Shore Acres State Park, not the beaches, to watch the big surf rolling in. Forecasters say a big storm s on the way. On Wednesday, they were busy sending out notices: There s a high wind ...
2.6K - Nov. 5, 2009; scored 60.0 Horse abuser's sentencing is set for Friday
A North Bend woman convicted of neglecting and abusing her Tennessee Walker horses will hear her sentence Friday morning in Coos County Court. Last month, a six-person jury found Bobbye L. Cikanek guilty of one count first-degree animal abuse and 10...
0.8K - Nov. 5, 2009; scored 60.0 | 
