The Sentinel sells to Hall family
Matt and Kim Hall have picked up another south coast paper. Jean Ivey, owner of The Sentinel, signed a sales contract
transferring the paper to the Halls today
Tag: Coquille Valley Sentinel
BOC to vote on Coquille Valley Enterprise Zone expansion
The proposed boundary change extends the zone to include parts of the Bandon Urban Renewal District, and just like the Jordan Cove LNG project is situated in both an urban renewal district and an enterprise zone it will be a long time before the taxpayer sees a return, if ever, from this investment.
Read MoreSome tidbits from the recall debate UPDATED
The DVD from the IBO luncheon recall debate arrived here today and I transcribed a couple of parts here and will update throughout the weekend. Please know that these are literal translations and I am not responsible for...
Read MoreCoquille Valley Sentinel to publish letter questioning council applications process
A letter sent to each of the city councilors and the mayor reproduced below will be published in the upcoming Coquille valley Sentinel questioning the reasoning and legality of invalidating election results because of the ineligibility of one candidate.
Read MoreCoquille blogger wrongly implies Concerned Citizens involved in recall
Apparently, in a bid to discredit Mayor Steve Britton and anyone who supports him, a disgruntled ex employee of The Sentinel who now runs a blog is inferring that Concerned Citizens of Coquille, a human rights advocacy group founded two years ago by Dian Courtright, had an earlier iteration that tried to recall the council. Courtright contacted the blogger to advise him that CCC had never been involved in any recall but the blogger refused to retract his statement.
Some thoughts on small town journalism and blogging and Coquille
There is a new book out about Rupert Murdoch, The Man Who Owns the News, written by Michael Wolff,...
Read MoreContentious city council meeting in Coquille
When I pulled into the parking lot at City Hall and noticed the personalized license plate of my neighbor, Harpy, (in Greek Mythology the harpy was a winged death-spirit), I knew this was going to be a contentious meeting. True to form the ‘harpy’ lived up to her namesake and cast a pall over the entire proceedings.
Read MoreThin skinned Coquillians threaten mayor with lawsuit
Coquille, alas, seems to be inhabited by a group, small perhaps, but a group nonetheless of very thin skinned individuals. Perhaps it is a genetic mutation but in keeping with the nature of such anomalies as those suffering from...
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