Bandon and Coos Bay may soon have community radio
A list of applicants should be available within seven days. Good luck to everyone!
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BOC agree to limit mosquito abatement to Bandon Marsh
The board voted to 2-0 (Cribbins left early for another meeting) to spray larvicide only and limit the spraying to the Bandon Marsh so as not to contaminate cranberry crops. Cranberry farmers raised the issue that their crops...
Read MoreSchamehorn insecurity goes too far
Bandon Mayor and Myrtle Point Herald editor Mary Schamehorn does not suffer criticism well. A recent letter to The World accusing her of making uninformed decisions about assault weapons raised her hackles and unleashed an email...
Read MoreNo on Bandon swimming pool tax district
Stop us from drowning in debt. Vote NO on Measure 6-146. No Bandon pool! Please spread the word.
Read MoreAgent Orange documentary features local Vietnam veteran
Poet, author and Vietnam veteran Don Blackburn is seen in this documentary about Agent Orange. Blackburn is a Bandon resident when he isn’t in Vietnam working at his favorite charity Friendship Village an organization...
Read MoreOur commissioners do not understand the concept “public notice”
The county posts its meeting notices on a bulletin board inside the county courthouse. To see the notices, people from as far away as Lakeside, Powers, Charleston or Remote would have to make a daily drive to Coquille, and they’d have to arrive during business hours because you can’t read the bulletin board from outside the courthouse.
Read MoreHave the Board of Commissioners erred again? Two of them have
John Baxter, Bandon resident has penned an excellent letter to the editor, as yet unpublished in The World, regarding the $1M free lunch offered to ORC. For your reading pleasure, he has agreed to print it here. Have the...
Read MoreNewspapers have to earn their readership, The World editor crosses a line UPDATED
Whenever there are polarizing issues before the public one side or the other are going to question local news coverage and make accusations of bias. The local LNG matter is an example of a divisive issue as is the chromite strip...
Read MoreReal journalists doing what journalists are supposed to do right here in Coos County
Right here in Coos County we have an excellent example of how a free press and a true democracy are supposed to work. As reported in Coast Lake News and on this blog, Jessica LLoyd-Rogers reported on what might have become an...
Read MoreSalem rally to keep the Guard home
We are in Salem this week to speak about the Western Oregon Wind project and there was a great...
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