Boxcar Hill Campground held its annual raffle/fundraiser over Thanksgiving weekend, generating $2,500 for Operation Rebuild Hope.
A number of veterans on the South Coast received a gift of firewood as part of a joint project of Perry’s Supply and several volunteers.
A Bandon photographer is featured on the back of the 2021-2022 Oregon Blue Book, the secretary of state announced on Dec. 31.
COOS BAY ─ For the first time, Marshfield High School has a student-run garden on campus and there are plans for expansion.
BROOKINGS — Billy Hartwick has found his next step.
COOS COUNTY ─ “I don’t know if it was my second mid-life crisis or not, but I always wanted to get a Harley-Davidson,” James Fritz laughed as he looked back on how he tackled pandemic restrictions. Though he made jokes about chasing a dream he held since he was a child, the activity has stre…
During a difficult holiday season, the ARK Project has been busy making wishes come true – even more than a normal year, in spite of the pandemic.
The volunteers began showing up early Saturday morning with one goal - get food to anyone who needed some in Coos Bay and North Bend.
The North Bend City Council recently announced its first Spirt of Christmas awards, honoring six homes and one business for their festive Christmas displays. Among those honored were these homes.
Dustin Graves-Begay began his journey in scouting as a Cub Scout in Pack 313 in North Bend in 2008. In the Cub Scout program, Dustin earned the Arrow of Light award, Cut Scouting’s highest award. As a Cub Scout he enjoyed several summer day camps at Tugman State Park.
Author Ellie Alexander is looking for help from South Coast residents in writing a mystery based in North Bend.
What a stinker of a year.
COQUILLE ─ While Coquille High School graduate Erim Gómez conducted a population study on endangered fat-tailed horned lizards near the U.S.-Mexican border, he paused.
NORTH BEND — Every other year during recertification as an EMT, firefighters have to go through a variety of training, including how to deliver babies.
COOS BAY - For more than 60 years, D&H Logging has been a mainstay in the forests around Coos County.
Photos by Zack Demars & John Gunther, The World
Even COVID-19 could not stop North Bend from celebrating the Christmas season Friday as the community came together for a Christmas Cruise at the North Bend Community Center. Mayor Jessica Engelke got the celebration started when she joined members of her family as well as Miss Coos County a…
100 YEARS — 1920
With the annual Shore Acres Christmas lights display canceled this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, residents and businesses in the Coos Bay, North Bend and Charleston areas have been encouraged to decorate their homes to light up the community.
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Pictures from Saturday's drive-by Christmas celebration.
The community group 100 Strong Bandon has provided a big boost to the Barbara Dodrill Scholarshiop.
Shawn Liggett-Torres has known for several years she was going to one day open an antique store. What she didn’t know until recently is she would open it in 2020 during the middle of a global pandemic.
COOS BAY — A small audience gathered around a surfboard at the 7 Devils Brewery on Thursday afternoon.
COQUILLE — Sammie Huffman can’t wait until next June, when she represents Oregon in the Miss Collegiate America pageant.
View the online version of our Celebrating Our Veterans publication here!
CHARLESTON — Curtis Green held back his emotion Friday as he relived a harrowing experience from last year. His face grew somber as a U.S. Coast Guard member told a small crowd gathered about Green's lifesaving actions.
Even though South Coast residents won’t be able to experience one of the area’s best-known holiday traditions since the Friends of Shore Acres, Inc., and Shore Acres State Park had to cancel the annual Holiday Lights at Shore Acres due to the coronavirus pandemic, people can experience a hol…
In the eyes of Brent Hutton, the opportunity for Bandon’s runners to join Marshfield, North Bend and Powers for weekly track meets in the Bay Area this month is a reward of sorts.
NORTH BEND — Like getting a fresh coat of paint, the nature trail at Ferry Road Park received a fresh surface of chips last week.
BANDON — Praise, congratulations and acclamations of loving approval for Bandon’s 2020 Cranberry Queen Elli Schulz were voiced during Mass on Sunday, Sept. 27, at Holy Trinity Catholic Church.
COQUILLE VALLEY — What can you do right now to make your community more resilient?
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A new building behind the theater will allow for set storage and building and a new green room.
COOS BAY — Southwestern Oregon Community College’s Geology Lecture Series has gone virtual for 2020-2021. To continue the series, on Saturday, Oct. 10, at 7 p.m., Dr. Ross S. Stein will present a lecture on “How the Gold Rush and the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake Enabled Us to Divine our Sei…
A scholarship fundraiser event bringing the fun back safely
View the online version of our Best Of The South Coast 2020 publication here!
BANDON — Art by the Sea Gallery and Studio invites the public to an open house taking place from 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 3.
It’s been over a month since our last column. Have we learned anything about containing the virus yet? I’d like to think that we have. Still, memories tend to be short, and 40,000 new cases daily would suggest that we forget quickly. How did the Labor Day weekend go? Well, if the other two h…
COOS BAY — Coos Bay Shakespeare in the Park and Dolphin Players will present "King Lear" on YouTube Live on Saturday, Sept. 12, and Sunday, Sept. 13, at 4 p.m.
Wellness center will be a holistic medical ‘home’
NORTH BEND — Tim Crider’s life path took a change when he was working at a YMCA camp in southern California during his college years.
(Editor's note: There will be no traditional Cranberry Festival or Cranberry Festival Parade this year due to COVID-19 safety concerns. We will instead print stories and photos of past festivals as space allows and highlight the Cranberry Harvest Celebration activities that are instead sched…
BANDON — As with all things COVID-19 related, the 74th annual Bandon Cranberry Festival has changed considerably this year.
COOS BAY — Dance Umbrella for South Coast Oregon (DUSCO) granted two dancers a scholarship this year for them to study at intensive dance workshops during the summer, one via Zoom, the other in person and via Zoom.
COOS BAY — The South Coast Striders will hike from Sunset Bay to Cape Arago on Saturday, Aug. 22.
Should schools open given that worldwide we are seeing 300,000 new cases daily, with the U.S. contributing soon 100,000 of these? Well, there are strong opinions on both sides of this issue. Sadly, most of the arguments to reopen schools have less to do with education and more to do with sav…
BANDON — The winners of the 2020 Community Collage Show at Art by the Sea Gallery and Studio have been announced.
NORTH BEND — A night at the Liberty is always filled with glamour, stars and excitement. The next show at the Liberty will again be online. It’s the annual Masque Awards, honoring special performances by actors and showing video clips of the past season shows.
COOS BAY — The Coos Bay Public Library will be offering ¡Spanglish Virtual! via Zoom. The September virtual sessions will be from 2-3 p.m. Monday, Sept. 14, and from 10:30-11:30 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 26.
BANDON — A call to artists is being issued by Art by the Sea Gallery and Studio for their next community art show this fall, "Miniatures and Small Works Exhibition."
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