Marriages and Divorces
The following couples have filed for marriage licenses at the clerk s office at the Coos County Courthouse in Coquille: Philip Sullivan and Kelly Christoffersen both of Powers. Steven Burnett and Jami Gallagher both of Bandon. Craig Lanuza of Ventura...
 0.9K - Aug. 22, 2009; scored 71.0 Carissa Vasilion
50, of Reedsport, died Aug. 5, 2009, in Coos Bay. Arrangements are pending with Coos Bay Chapel, 267-3131....
0.2K - Aug. 7, 2009; scored 71.0 I want to know about those whale bones
Question: I want to know more about the exposed bones in the sand on the beach near the New Carissa wreck site. Answer: The bones are from the remains of a dead California gray whale that had washed up earlier this summer, Jan Hodder, associate profe...
1.2K - Aug. 4, 2009; scored 71.0 Marshfield announces top grade-earners
Marshfield High School in Coos Bay has released its third trimester honor roll. 4.0 grade-point average Seniors: Diana Avila, Davey Beebe, Jamie Ellingsen, Benjamin Fellows, Ellen Fields, Kelsey Flathers, Brianna George, Maria Haensel, Maureena Herr...
3.1K - Jul. 15, 2009; scored 71.0 Marine reserves win OK
SALEM - All that's preventing Oregon from setting up the state's first two fishing-free marine reserves off the coast is Gov. Ted Kulongoski's signature. Talk to anyone involved in the process and all indications are these two reserves will sail into...
2.5K - Jun. 18, 2009; scored 112.0 House approves marine reserves
GRANTS PASS - The South Coast is one step closer to having its first marine reserve, but a Coos Bay lawmaker says if the state doesn't pay for it, it will dissolve. The Oregon House approved establishment of Oregon's first two marine reserves - inclu...
3.8K - May. 29, 2009; scored 71.0 Port forms committee for marine reserves
Coos County residents are going to get a chance to voice their opinions about marine reserves thanks to a committee facilitated by the Oregon International Port of Coos Bay. The recommendation won't go so far as designating a marine reserve off Coos ...
3.8K - May. 28, 2009; scored 112.0 Marshfield graduation June 6
Marshfield High School's graduation is set for June 6 at the school's gymnasium in Coos Bay. The graduates The Marshfield High School Class of 2009: Jacob Adamson, Ashley Akhtar, Josh Anderson, Gabe Anderson, Miranda Anderson, Diana Avila, Ella Baer,...
6.2K - May. 22, 2009; scored 71.0 Marshfield announces honor roll lists
Marshfield High School has released its second trimester honor roll information. Here are the school's top grade-earners. 4.0 Seniors: Jacob Adamson, Diana Avila, Carissa Bunnell, Shane Daly, Kelsey Flathers, McKenzie Freeman, Brianna George, Tun Ha...
5.8K - Apr. 3, 2009; scored 71.0 Railroads chugged in and out of history
The Coos Bay jetties help the shipping industry with a safe passage route across the bar. But when the north jetty needed repairs in the late 1930s, it was a different form of transportation that benefited from the work. The U.S. Army Corps of Engine...
3.8K - Mar. 11, 2009; scored 71.0 Shipwreck payment should benefit coast
We had a perfectly good shipwreck, until the lawyers got involved. For a decade, the New Carissa sat quietly on the North Spit, sheltering starfish and attracting human gawkers. Though the initial wreck was an environmental disaster, the wreckage bec...
2.2K - Mar. 3, 2009; scored 428.0 Senator works to keep money on coast
COOS BAY Today, the Oregon Senate will begin working on the governor s transportation package, also known as the Jobs and Transportation Act of 2009. Sen. Joanne Verger plans to be there. The Coos Bay Democrat, who is a member of the Senate Transpo...
4.0K - Mar. 2, 2009; scored 112.0 Marshfield tunes up with win
Marshfield s girls basketball team earned an emotional Senior Night win and built a valuable head of steam going into the program s first-ever home playoff game with a 42-32 victory over Churchill at Pirate Palace on Friday night. All nine Pirate sen...
4.0K - Feb. 21, 2009; scored 71.0 Governor wants to use Carissa funds for ocean projects
FLORENCE (AP) Gov. Ted Kulongoski has proposed using the remaining $2.8 million the state received in a settlement from the New Carissa shipwreck for research projects on seafloor mapping, wave energy and marine reserves. The money could g...
2.1K - Feb. 5, 2009; scored 857.0 Extended hours draw few to NB employment office
NORTH BEND Saturdays have been slow at the WorkSource Oregon Employment Department since the agency added the extra day of service. For one whole hour on Saturday, a lone customer used a computer. Manager Kathie Creasey said about a dozen people ha...
5.6K - Jan. 19, 2009; scored 112.0 Roads aren t the only roadblock to chromite
Road deal holds up chromite mining plan. This headline is very misleading. (The World, Dec. 30) There are several far more critical hurdles than road maintenance facing Oregon Resources Corp. First, the metals commodity markets have cratered. China i...
2.6K - Jan. 13, 2009; scored 71.0 So long, 2008; here s to a better 2009
If years can have themes, then 2008 s theme for the Bay Area was wreckage. In February, winter storms uncovered the wooden bones of a mystery ship at Horsfall Beach. Another shipwreck, the New Carissa, made news for much of the summer, as salvage ...
1.5K - Dec. 31, 2008; scored 71.0 September
Coos Bay finance director loses job The city of Coos Bay fires Finance Director Janell Howard, but Oregon State Police conclude there is insufficient evidence to charge Howard with shoplifting. Despite the findings, City Manager Chuck Freeman announc...
1.3K - Dec. 31, 2008; scored 71.0 July
Horizon pullout dims airport gala Southwestern Oregon Regional Airport opens its new terminal with a gala featuring 320 invited guests. But the festivities are overshadowed by Horizon Air s announcement, just four days before, that it will discontinu...
1.4K - Dec. 31, 2008; scored 71.0 June
SOCC's Hansen controvery comes to a boil Discontent with the local community college president balloons into a full-blown controversy in June. Though President Judith Hansen has succeeded at building relations between the Southwestern Oregon Communit...
1.3K - Dec. 31, 2008; scored 71.0 | 
