One day, COVID-19 will have its own tab in local and world history. But for now, with the pandemic not quite over, it is a reminder of how far things have come in the last 18 months.

Wild Rivers Coast Alliance, Bandon Dunes Golf Resort and Brookings-Harbor High School are pleased to announce that Brookings-Harbor High School Class of 2021 seniors Nohemi Fernandez and Aaron Parkinson are recipients of the Jim Seeley Memorial Scholarship.

The realization that I can copy photos out of my original Western World newspapers, and that they print well as evidenced by the photo of the Coast Guard station last week, has opened up a whole new avenue for me…

BANDON - Bonnie Ragan was honored as Southern Coos Hospital & Health Center’s non-clinical Employee of the Month for May.

The Langlois Lions wish to thanks an entire "village" of people and businesses that helped make our recent open-air Mary Hildebrand Memorial Plant Sale an overwhelming success. This was our first major fundraiser since 2019 and has enabled us to…

November 15, 1947 – October 17, 2020

November 6, 1935 – April 14, 2021

Southwestern Oregon Preppers will be holding its monthly meeting at noon Saturday, May 22, at the Langlois Library, 48234 US-101, Langlois. The group will be meeting outside so bring something to sit on.

A proposal to raise property taxes to keep the North Bend pool afloat is leading in early returns Tuesday night.

I was trying to envision what the first plane to land on the Bandon Beach in 1920 might have looked like, so I chose this vintage plane, which landed at the Bandon Airport during a fly-in in the 1970s.

The Langlois Lions is hosting the annual Mary Hildebrand Memorial Plant Sale from Saturday, May 15, through Sunday, May 23, from 9 a.m.- 4 p.m. daily. This open-air market is located at 94180 Kerber Lane. Masks are required. The sale…

I love this first picture I am sharing of the gas-powered Charm as it was docked at the Bandon waterfront sometime around 1915. The people aboard the Charm are obviously enjoying having their picture taken, with several of them standing…

U.S. Highway 101 was closed for about six hours Thursday after a fatal accident north of Bandon.

The Langlois Lions extends their gratitude to the community for all the contributions that enabled us to upgrade our building's heating system. Various local businesses and individuals had donated items our 2019 Holiday Craft Fair - specifically for this cause.