Gold Beach News

GOLD BEACH A Brookings man who led authorities on a high speed chase from Harbor to Crescent City in early June had his bail reduced this week, but the district attorney added more charges before Drake Alexander Bettinger, 35, had a chance to post the bail.

GOLD BEACH A 53-year-old Crescent City, Calif., man was convicted Wednesday of soliciting burglary for having two Brookings area boys break into a Dotson Lane home to steal items he promised to sell for them.

The Curry Health District will be facing a year of transition in the next fiscal year and the 2009-2010 budget reflects that.

You may have noticed a few new faces around town performing an assortment of good deeds.

GOLD BEACH The Curry County Board of Commissioners approved a budget of $72,416,261 at a special meeting on Wednesday but spent most of the discussion arguing over $825. On May 22, the budget approved by the Budget Committee, which includes the three commissioners and three lay members, was $72,415,436 for fiscal year 2010, which begins July 1.

Bob Payton is a bit like Johnny Appleseed. The inquisitive agricultural engineer has traveled the world looking for answers to a lot of things, but now that he has returned to Gold Beach his answer is amazingly simple.

Robyn Darbyshire knows how to teach students and to mentor teachers. Noting her exceptional work this year, the Columbia-Willamette chapter of Sigma Xi has recently presented Darbyshire with its Outstanding Teacher Award for 2009.

This is the story of two guys who lived half way around the world from each other and became acquainted at a motorcycle rally 17 years ago that neither one attended.

In what could only be called a compromise decision, the Gold Beach Planning Commission unanimously voted to move the conservation line 100 feet east of the preservation line.

Fire season officially started this week in Curry County, throughout Oregon and much of the Western United States.

His body broken after falling more than 75 feet from a Brookings sea cliff this weekend, 15-year-old Travis Dillon was conscious enough to crawl onto a rock to escape the incoming tide and use his cell phone to call 911.

The following information is taken from the daily logs of local law enforcement agencies.

Tomorrow will mark PJ Janik's first month as Gold Beach Police Chief and there are some very visible changes - and not so visible changes - from the last administration.

The following information is taken from the daily logs of local law enforcement agencies.

Erick E.G. Hollenbeck, 19, Langlois, was convicted June 5 of violation of two separate probations.

The future of law enforcement in Curry County will be in the people's hands. All the current Sheriff, Juvenile Director, and District Attorney can do is lay out the facts to those wanting to listen.

Tick ... tock ... A brown clock hangs sublimely on avocado-painted walls above the sitting room where it quietly bears witness to the passing of time.

The 2009 edition of the Gold Beach Visitors' Guide is enclosed in the June 10 edition of the Curry County Reporter .

GOLD BEACH One of two men charged following an early morning burglary last Thursday in which the property owner fired shots at two stolen cars attempting to run him down and wound up with eight officers and a K9 dog investigating, made his first appearance with his attorney in Curry County Circuit Court on Tuesday.

Eight law enforcement officers and a K9 dog converged on an Ophir home being burglarized early Thursday morning after the property owner fired shots at two Port Orford men trying to run him over with stolen cars.