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 248.0 Wise approach to LNG: Be prepared
Coping with the recession has absorbed most people s energy for the past year, but looking beyond the immediate crisis is always smart. The city of Coos Bay is being prudently proactive by negotiating a financial relationship with the would-be develo...
1.9K - Nov. 5, 2009; scored 168.0 Coos Bay schools, teachers can't agree
Coos Bay teachers and schools officials are headed to mediation to try to resolve disagreements over pay and workday conditions. The two sides continued their now half-year negotiations Monday night, but failed to produce a compromise. I think it was...
2.8K - Nov. 3, 2009; scored 651.0 Club Notes
Women in Black noon, Tuesdays, corner of Broadway Avenue and Newmark Street. (756-2042) Dolphin Players 7 p.m., first Tuesday, North Bend Public Library, 1800 Sherman Ave. Sea Breeze Harmony rehearsals 6:30 p.m., Tuesdays, First United Methodis...
0.8K - Nov. 2, 2009; scored 148.0 North Bend Hall of Fame inductees
George Edward Gebhardt (Class of 1933): Gebhardt was born in 1915 and was class president during his time at North Bend High School. He also won the Coos County extemporary speaking contest and was selected Outstanding Senior Boy. He earned a degree...
4.7K - Oct. 31, 2009; scored 221.0 Bandon fights the odds on police levy
Bandon officials say the day is approaching when the police department won t have enough officers to provide 24-hour protection. They are hoping taxpayers will dig deeper into their pockets to help pay for police officer salaries. Voters in the city ...
4.9K - Oct. 31, 2009; scored 232.0 Scene & Heards
Concerts This weekend Amanda Dillon Java Jones. Acoustic folk. 9:30 a.m. Saturday. 888-4477. Ambush Mr. Zack s. Classic rock. 9 p.m. Friday and Saturday. 396-7111. Amy Clawson Coltrane Three Rivers. 8:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday. www.three...
10.9K - Oct. 30, 2009; scored 244.0 Scene & Heard
Concerts This weekend Dammit Jim McFarlin s. Rock. 8:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday. 329-1200. Elkhorn Walt s Pourhouse. 8 p.m. Saturday. 267-5588. Freemartins The Mill. Pop, rock, funk. 9 p.m. Friday and Saturday. 756-8800, www.themillcasino.com...
11.2K - Oct. 23, 2009; scored 247.0 DA clears track coach
The state has dropped sex abuse charges against Wendi Boutiette, but she s still reeling from the events of the past nine months. Her 9-year-old son has wondered whether his mom would go to jail. She stepped down as Coquille High School s track coach...
4.1K - Oct. 23, 2009; scored 124.0 DA dismisses charges against former track coach
The Douglas County District Attorney s office has filed a motion to dismiss sex-abuse charges against former Coquille High School track coach Wendi Boutiette. The filing was prompted by the unwillingness of Boutiette s alleged victim to cooperate wit...
1.4K - Oct. 22, 2009; scored 138.0 Thefts & Mischief
The following are theft and criminal mischief reports from police logs. Coos Bay Oct. 16, 11:35 p.m., a fight was reported in the 300 block of Anderson Avenue. Oct. 16, 11:51 p.m., police arrested a man on a second-degree criminal mischief charge, fo...
5.2K - Oct. 20, 2009; scored 120.0 Did he lie? Stufflebean's bankruptcy explanation doesn t add up
Coos County Commissioner Kevin Stufflebean s public explanation of his recent bankruptcy filing contains factual discrepancies, The World has learned. In July, Stufflebean and his wife filed for Chapter 13 bankruptcy protection in federal court in Eu...
9.7K - Oct. 18, 2009; scored 263.0 Did he lie? Stufflebean's bankruptcy explanation doesn t add up
Coos County Commissioner Kevin Stufflebean s public explanation of his recent bankruptcy filing contains factual discrepancies, The World has learned. In July, Stufflebean and his wife filed for Chapter 13 bankruptcy protection in federal court in Eu...
9.7K - Oct. 17, 2009; scored 263.0 Scene & Heard
Concerts This weekend Ambush Blue Moon. Rock, classic rock. 9 p.m. Friday and Saturday. www.dbabluemoon.com . Bent McFarlin s. Rock. 8:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday. 329-1200. Charlie Freak Rogers Zoo. Rock, blues. 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday. 75...
11.0K - Oct. 16, 2009; scored 244.0 H1N1 is hitting hard
Health officials say the H1N1 influenza virus is ravaging Coos County. The bug is partially to blame for hundreds of absences at area schools. But unlike in the spring, when school officials sent students home when one suspected case of swine flu app...
4.7K - Oct. 16, 2009; scored 313.0 Soroptimist wants help in aiding kids
Soroptimist International of the Coos Bay Area has embarked on their fifth-annual project to bring oral hygiene products into the Bay Area Elementary Schools. Last school year, we were able to provide 2,500 oral hygiene kits distributed among the Coo...
2.2K - Oct. 14, 2009; scored 266.0 A bunch of munchers
What do you get when you put six second-grade girls in a limo and take them to pizza? Giggles. Big time. Shianne Meyer treated her second-grade friends at Madison Elementary School to a pizza party Tuesday. Not only did she win the lunch prize, but J...
0.8K - Oct. 14, 2009; scored 157.0 MEETINGS
Today Lighthouse School Board 7 p.m., school, 93670 Viking Way, Hauser; regular meeting. Bunker Hill Sanitary District 7:30 p.m., district office, 93685 E. Howard Lane, Coos Bay; regular meeting. Thursday, Oct. 15 Coos Bay/North Bend Water Boar...
1.2K - Oct. 14, 2009; scored 240.0 Schools see rise in absenteeism
Cover that cough. Wash those hands. That s the advice of teachers and administrators in Bay Area schools who are keeping doors open despite high absentee rates. North Bend schools have been hit hardest, though Coos Bay teachers also noticed fewer stu...
1.8K - Oct. 13, 2009; scored 221.0 Chester B. Dacayana
A memorial Mass will be held for Chester B. Dacayana, 80, of Port Orford, at 10 a.m., Monday, Oct. 19, at St. John s Catholic Church in Port Orford. Chester was born Sept. 30, 1929, in Hollister, Calif., to parents Venancio and Pelagia Dacayana. They...
2.8K - Oct. 13, 2009; scored 151.0 | 
