Curry County News

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.

GOLD BEACH Two boaters on the Rogue River were arrested for boating under the influence of intoxicants as Curry County Sheriff's Office Marine Patrol and Oregon state troopers teamed up last weekend, Sheriff John Bishop said.

A special enforcement action netted two drunken boating arrests and numerous citations for safety equipment violations at the mouth of the Rogue River in Curry County this weekend.

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.

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

A 6-year-old California boy drowned Sunday while playing in the Chetco River at a Southern Oregon state park.

A judge on Monday sentenced 50-year-old Brookings resident Gary Alan Green to five and a half years in federal prison for mail fraud and money laundering while he was chief financial officer for the Brookings-based Tidewater Contractors, Inc.

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

The House Appropriations Committee will consider spending $350,000 to fund the Brookings Emergency Operating Center, Rep.

Three Brookings residents have been arrested and more arrests are expected in connection with a home burglary and subsequent high-speed police chase that started in Harbor and ended in Crescent City.

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.

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.

U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley came to Gold Beach last Thursday for his first Curry County Town Hall meeting since winning a close election against Gordon Smith last November.

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.

Lori St. Clair of Ridgecrest, Calif., sends a heartfelt thank you to Curry Coastal Pilot readers who responded to her Wednesday letter, "Don't trust a dog off leash." In her letter, Lori described a gut-wrenching incident on the Winchuck River beach in which a Brookings man's loose dog attacked her poodle.

Kids, jet boats, and a barbeque made up the 2009 Rogue River Cleanup held last Saturday, May 30.

Telephone and Internet services were interrupted Monday afternoon, resulting in a communications breakdown in most of Curry County and disabling the Curry County 911 emergency phone system.

If you think that fishing is frustrating, you ought to check out the Oregon Legislature this session.

Hatch boxes have been placed along the tributaries of the Rogue River to varying degrees over the last half century; the latest program dating back into the 1980s.