Coos Bay News Archives

Developers hoping to build a liquefied natural gas terminal on the North Spit of Coos Bay have pushed back plans to start construction until spring 2011.

They're big, they look cuddly and now, they're wandering into coastal communities looking for food.

Despite the chilly weather, vendors were out on Central Avenue for the final Farmers Market of the season on Wednesday, with the rain letting up just in time for a final hurrah in 2009.

Birders observed a rare Brown Booby roosting on a wooden structure in a bay east of Coos Bay on Wednesday.

It was a quick meeting at the Port of Coos Bay Thursday afternoon, although no action was taken on extending property agreements with Jordan Cove.

It took almost two decades and lots of fund-raising, but earlier this year, a local group saw their vision of a community baseball field come to fruition.

Making their way back towards having 24 hour coverage, Oregon State Police have two new Recruit Troopers in Coos Bay, learning the ropes before they become full-fledged Troopers in just a few short months.

Rehabilitation work has finished on one of three tunnels needed to reopen the Coos Bay rail line, the executive director of the Oregon International Port of Coos Bay told Douglas County commissioners on Wednesday.

For the third year in a row, area coffee drinkers can splurge on their favorite treat this Friday with the knowledge that the money they spend at a couple local drive-ups will go to help fight cancer locally.

Coos Bay is the frontline in the struggle to protect the west coast from another intrusive corporate energy product, where Jordan Cove, PG&E and other consortium members plan a pipeline with linear clearcuts across Oregon to the CA border near Malin, OR.

A second season of South Coast Youth Football wraps this weekend, as they hold their end of the year games at Marshfield High School.

Southwestern Oregon Community College continues to draw up architectural plans and complete all of the necessary paperwork and formalities to begin construction on the new Curry Campus at Lone Ranch north of Brookings.

An accident at a busy North Bend intersection in September, that claimed the life of a French tourist, will not result in any criminal charges.

The top job at the Kennewick Irrigation District is being offered to a former city manager at Coos Bay, Ore., who would be paid $105,000 if he accepts it.

The following is from a thoughtful and thought-provoking note that Portland architect Richard Potestio sent to Associate Editor Doug Bates in response to his Sunday commentary on the resurgence of Oakridge, the once-booming lumbermill town that has reinvented itself as a mecca for mountain biking.

Robert Lloyd Barr passed away peacefully Oct. 1 with his loving wife of 38 years by his side.

Blossom Gulch students ditched the bus Wednesday, and opted for a walk to school, taking part in International Walk to School Day.

Benefits under the new GI Bill have been slow in coming, as you know, and the VA has begun handing out $3,000 advances on benefits to help veterans bridge the gap.

Twenty Years at Mount Pisgah Bike Riding Drops, or Not OLCV Scorecard Rates Lawmakers Activist Alert Lane Area Herbicide Schedule War Dead Corrections/Clarifications Slant: Short opinion pieces and rumor-chasing notes BLM BACKING OFF LOGGING OLD-GROWTH? Fall Creek, long the site of treesits and logging protests looks like it's getting a reprieve ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Portland District is giving people more time to comment on the waterway aspect of the proposed liquefied natural gas pipeline at Coos Bay.

Children on reduced and free lunch programs at school don't always have food at home for the weekend.