Recreation Report
Siuslaw River: Bright Chinook should continue to pulse in over the next few weeks. The cutthroat trout fishery is over for the season. Coos County lakes: Stocked trout fishing has been excellent. Coos River Basin: Trout fishing is closed until next s...
 1.5K - Nov. 7, 2009; scored 131.0 Power outage hits Bay Area
Approximately 3,600 Pacific Power customers were in the dark Tuesday afternoon, after a substation transformer blew a fuse in North Bend. The outage darkened homes, businesses and traffic lights for about 45 minutes from 1:30 to about 2:15 p.m. i...
0.8K - Nov. 4, 2009; scored 169.0 CLUB NOTES
The Coos Bay Kiwanis Club noon, Wednesdays, Red Lion Hotel, 1313 N. Bayshore Drive, Coos Bay (888-5498, 267-3121) The Coos Bay Garden Club 1 p.m., first Wednesday, Gloria Dei Lutheran Church, 1290 Thompson Road, Coos Bay. (888-4748) The Bay Are...
2.3K - Nov. 3, 2009; scored 131.0 Reports: Federal stimulus sends $1.8B to Oregon
PORTLAND (AP) Oregon has received about $1.8 billion in the first eight months of the federal stimulus program credited with saving or creating nearly 10,000 jobs in the state. Reports released Friday showed the largest number of jobs saved by...
3.1K - Nov. 2, 2009; scored 131.0 Coast Guard suspends search for survivors in military aircraft crash; investigation continues
LOS ANGELES (AP) With the possibility of finding survivors all but gone and the ocean search shifted from a rescue effort to a recovery mission, focus fell today on what caused a Marine Corps helicopter and U.S. Coast Guard plane to collide over th...
1.2K - Nov. 2, 2009; scored 131.0 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 131.0 Bandon Fishing report
Local lakes: Last week, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife restocked Empire Lakes in Coos Bay with the last of its two-pound trophy trout and legal-sized rainbow trout. The reports I received from the Bites on Tackle shop in Empire were o...
3.5K - Oct. 29, 2009; scored 169.0 Mapping vessel finds offshore ridge is busy and changing
Scientists mapping the seafloor off Oregon found a surprising sight 20-foot vertical upheavals they had never known existed in the middle of the Juan de Fuca Plate, where some odd swarms of earthquakes were detected last year. Oregon State Universi...
2.6K - Oct. 27, 2009; scored 131.0 Locals land NOAA work
A Coos Bay contractor will manage the construction of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration marine operations center in Newport. The Port of Newport has sent a letter of intent to hire Coos Bay-based West Coast Contractors and Andersen ...
2.7K - Oct. 27, 2009; scored 131.0 Columbia River commerce protected by weakened wall
ASTORIA (AP) It s a mild October morning on the Oregon Coast. Yet, even on a windless day with the ocean glassy smooth, it s a rough ride at the point where the Columbia River smashes into the Pacific Ocean. A 60-ton boat, designed to ferry elite p...
6.7K - Oct. 26, 2009; scored 1000.0 Recreation Report
Siuslaw River: Fall Chinook anglers are having fair success in mid to upper tidewater as recent rains have moved fish. The cutthroat trout season is open through October. Coos County lakes: Empire Lakes, Bluebill Lake and Butterfield Lake have been s...
1.6K - Oct. 25, 2009; scored 169.0 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 131.0 Recreation Report
Siuslaw River: Fall Chinook anglers are having fair success in mid to upper tidewater as recent rains have moved fish. The cutthroat trout season is open through October. Coos County lakes: Empire Lakes, Bluebill Lake and Butterfield Lake have been s...
1.6K - Oct. 24, 2009; scored 169.0 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 131.0 $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 217.0 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 169.0 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 169.0 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. 17, 2009; scored 169.0 Bandon Fishing Report
Local lakes: Last week, Bradley Lake near Bandon was stocked with 1,000 2-pound trophy-size rainbow trout. Plenty of anglers fished the lake last weekend, but we hadn t received any updated reports as of Tuesday. Five 20-foot lengths of floating doc...
2.8K - Oct. 16, 2009; scored 169.0 Coastal conference coming in Florence
The fifth-annual Heceta Head Coastal Conference in Florence is focusing on Oregon s Ocean: The Land-Sea Connection this month. The event, scheduled Oct. 23-24, will open with a discovery trip in Charleston. Those attending will meet at 1 p.m., Frid...
2.0K - Oct. 15, 2009; scored 217.0 | 
