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COOS BAY — Bella Jones probably always expected to be in the pool on her 18th birthday.
The Bay Area’s Fourth of July festivities will look a little different once again.
As COVID-19 wanes, Gladys Johnston is celebrating living through her second pandemic.
Emily Kruse from Coos Bay has been named a 2021 Outstanding Senior by the Oklahoma State University College of Education and Human Sciences. The honor recognizes the top 1% of more than 800 seniors graduating from the college in 2021.
In her 100 years on Earth, Bertha Sharpe has been known a lot of ways – nurse, friend, wife, aunt, sister and faithful church member.
SOUTH COAST ─ United Way of Southwestern Oregon is celebrating its 60th anniversary.
SMART Reading has announced the Volunteer of the Year for the South Coast Area, serving Coos and Curry counties. We are proud to share that longtime volunteers Jaci and Hugh Pinkston have taken the honor for 2021.
After being locked inside for 14 months due to COVID, the residents at Ocean Ridge Assisted Living received a welcome reprieve Friday during the second drive-by Mother’s Day parade.
HAUSER ─ The Hauser Rural Fire Protection District has raised over $5,000 for its ambulance vans.
The Zonta Club of the Coos Bay Area, through its foundation, the Coos Bay Area Zonta Service Foundation, recently awarded $15,000 to four Coos County nonprofits: $5,000 to Coos County Friends of Public Health, $5,000 to Bay Area First Step, $3,000 to the Nancy Devereux Center and $2,000 to t…
The Coos Bay Downtown Association is preparing an exciting 21st season of the farmers market opening on Cinco de Mayo, Wednesday, May 5. The market runs every Wednesday through October 27 from 9 a.m.- 2 p.m. with the first hour being for senior citizens and vulnerable customers.
NORTH BEND ─ Darleen Zimmerman, widow of a Korean War veteran, saw water filling her light fixtures and knew her roof needed to be fixed.
The South Coast lost one of its beloved track figures last week when Kermit Walker died after a long battle with cancer.
While serving with his Oregon Army National Guard unit based in Coos Bay during a two-week annual training at Camp Rilea in the late 1980s, Sgt. Dan McCarron knew something was wrong when a fellow Solider complained of having a terrible headache and neck pain. McCarron knew he had to do some…
From April 16 through June 26, the Coos Art Museum will be featuring David George Andersen: Satiric Constructsa selection of assemblage works by the late Salem artist. Andersen who served as exhibition designer at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art satirizes modern life through irreverent and ima…
A familiar sign of spring is back, as brightly colored pinwheels pop up in support of the community’s youth.
BANDON - When Debbie Allen graduated from nursing school in Montana, she wasn’t sure where her new career would take her, but she knew it was something she’d wanted to do since she was in seventh grade.
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Swing sets, slides and climbing walls abound in an unassuming office building on Elrod Avenue.
Gold Coast Swim Team member Allison Wright earned recognition as a top-five swimmer in her age group for the state of Oregon for 2020.
COOS BAY — Mira Kent was visiting a friend in Coos Bay when she came across a storefront for rent on Anderson Avenue.
REEDSPORT — A Reedsport woman was surprised with a socially distant celebration of her 104th birthday over the weekend.
NORTH BEND — Dozens of people drove up and tossed teddy bears through a hoop Friday, all for a good cause.
Coquille Chess Club whiz Joshua Grabinsky still has his moves.
COOS BAY — The Southwestern Oregon Preppers will meet at noon on Saturday, Feb. 20, at Mingus Park in Coos Bay.
A black lab experienced a string of good luck recently after an accident on a trail in Coos County.
Six South Coast individuals were recognized by the Oregon Coast Visitors Association as some of the 20 kindest people on the Oregon Coast.
If you believe you are capable of becoming the healthy, engaged person you want to be in old age, you are much more likely to experience that outcome, a recent Oregon State University study shows.
NORTH BEND - Hours after the U.S. announced it had surpassed 400,000 deaths linked to the COVID-19 pandemic Tuesday, Mayor Jessica Engelke solemnly rang a bell to honor those impacted by the virus.
Tristen Davison started his scouting journey by joining the Cub Scouts program as a 6-year-old in 2008. In the cub program, he worked up to a webelo scout and earned the Arrow of Light award, the highest rank and award in the Cub Scout program.
After 10 years of work, the producers of “Pre’s People,” a documentary about the legendary Steve Prefontaine, announced it will be available Jan. 25, which would have been his 70th birthday.