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 179.0 Childhood chums paddle the Rogue to the sea
MEDFORD Waking in a sleeping bag to a bone-drenching rain on the fifth day of a nine-day raft trip down the Rogue River, Sam Jackson and his two childhood pals wondered whether this adventure would match what it looked like on paper. For 91 miles, ...
4.8K - Nov. 6, 2009; scored 179.0 Berkshire buying Burlington Northern
NEW YORK (AP) Legendary investor Warren Buffett is making what he calls an all-in wager on the U.S. economy $34 billion to buy a major railroad that hauls everything from corn to cars across the country. Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp.,...
5.9K - Nov. 4, 2009; scored 179.0 Recreation Report
Siuslaw River: Rains are moving fish into upper tidewater and fresh fish are expected to pulse in soon. The last day to fish for cutthroat trout is today. Coos County lakes: There was an additional stocking of both trophy- and legal-size trout last w...
2.4K - Oct. 31, 2009; scored 179.0 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 231.0 Pendleton man to buy troubled gorge hotel
PORTLAND (AP) The troubled Columbia Gorge Hotel may have found a buyer after it closed last January. Vijay Patel, who owns a small chain of hotels in Eastern Oregon and Washington state, told The Oregonian he will buy the historic hotel for more th...
2.3K - Oct. 26, 2009; scored 179.0 Not rain, nor tweet ...
Talkies trumped silent films. Video killed the radio star. But your local post office doesn t intend to be the next victim of progress. The majority of people don t write letters anymore. They don t send greeting cards. They text and Twitter and a lo...
4.8K - Oct. 26, 2009; scored 179.0 Nor rain, nor tweet ...
Talkies trumped silent films. Video killed the radio star. But your local post office doesn t intend to be the next victim of progress. The majority of people don t write letters anymore. They don t send greeting cards. They text and Twitter and a lo...
4.7K - Oct. 25, 2009; scored 179.0 Maxine Locker
Maxine Locker Oct. 16, 1925 - Oct. 12, 2009 A celebration of her life was held for Maxine Locker, 83, of Pismo Beach, Calif., on Oct. 15. Burial was in California at the Arroyo Grande Cemetery, where she was placed next to Harold her beloved husband ...
2.6K - Oct. 25, 2009; scored 179.0 Nor rain, nor tweet ...
Talkies trumped silent films. Video killed the radio star. But your local post office doesn t intend to be the next victim of progress. The majority of people don t write letters anymore. They don t send greeting cards. They text and Twitter and a lo...
4.7K - Oct. 24, 2009; scored 179.0 Ex-mill site sees activity
Developers are starting to move dirt that has sat untouched for almost 20 years at the old Georgia-Pacific mill site in Coquille. The new tenants, McKay s Market and Coos-Curry Electric Cooperative Inc., have started priming more than six acres on th...
3.1K - Oct. 24, 2009; scored 296.0 Maxine Locker
Maxine Locker Oct. 16, 1925 - Oct. 12, 2009 A celebration of her life was held for Maxine Locker, 83, of Pismo Beach, Calif., on Oct. 15. Burial was in California at the Arroyo Grande Cemetery, where she was placed next to Harold her beloved husband ...
2.6K - Oct. 24, 2009; scored 179.0 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 231.0 Leland Wesley Sutton
A cryptside funeral service will be held for Leland Lee Wesley Sutton, 88, of Bandon at 2 p.m., Monday, Oct. 26, at Sunset Memorial Park Mausoleum, 63060 Millington Frontage Road in Coos Bay with Pastor Don Berney, of New Beginnings Christian Fello...
2.0K - Oct. 23, 2009; scored 179.0 $1M bond is set for man arrested in fishing death
TILLAMOOK (AP) A deckhand who joined two Oregon men on a July voyage to Ilwaco, Wash., has told police that a bloody fight aboard the fishing vessel ended with the slaying of John Adkins by his business partner, Erin Rieman, court documents say. Ad...
2.2K - Oct. 22, 2009; scored 953.0 Police arrest business partner of missing man
PACIFIC CITY (AP) A 47-year-old Pacific City man has been arrested in the July disappearance of a friend and business partner last seen in the southwest Washington Port of Ilwaco, Oregon State Police said Tuesday night. Erin Rieman was arrested ear...
1.5K - Oct. 21, 2009; scored 1000.0 SOCC authors read from latest works
Two students from the Southwestern Oregon Community College autobiography class one current and one former will offer short presentations on a books they partially worked on during class and later published. The presentations will be held at 3:15...
1.5K - Oct. 21, 2009; scored 231.0 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 231.0 Recreation Report
Siuslaw River: Chinook anglers are having better success as fall rains helped move fish into the lower river. Fishing for cutthroat trout is fair to good. Coos County lakes: Rainbow trout were stocked last week in Empire Lakes, Bradley Lake, Powers P...
3.2K - Oct. 18, 2009; scored 179.0 Hurricane Rick strengthens
ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP) Hurricane Rick swiftly strengthened Friday off Mexico s Pacific coast with winds near 100 mph, and forecasters warned it could soon become a major hurricane. Rick, a Category 2 hurricane, was centered about 260 miles south-sou...
1.0K - Oct. 18, 2009; scored 179.0 | 
