SCDC boss Ron Opitz dies
Ron Opitz, the director of South Coast Development Council and advocate of industrial development, died Wednesday at his home in Coos Bay. Arrangements are pending with Coos Bay Chapel. Ron Opitz Opitz took over as executive director of SCDC in 2003,...
3.5K - Feb. 26, 2009; scored 779.0

Coos Bay schools may shuffle kids
COOS BAY Coos Bay school officials are considering a plan to reconfigure the district s buildings, though it is far from a done deal. If implemented, Madison and Blossom Gulch elementary schools would teach students in kindergarten, first and secon...
5.3K - Nov. 25, 2008; scored 1000.0

There's no mystery about how to build schools
Coos Bay school leaders needn t wrack their brains about how to win a bond issue election. School board Chairwoman Kathy Murray already has described the next step. We need to go back to the community, she said this week. Exactly. Of 140 tax proposa...
3.0K - Nov. 14, 2008; scored 870.0

Once again, voters showed well-informed prudence
Here are some scattered thoughts on the local election results. Don t break what works Even though change was the political season s all-purpose slogan, voters hereabouts generally refrained from fixing what wasn t broken. Three admirable state legis...
3.3K - Nov. 6, 2008; scored 805.0