Radar Bunker at Coos Bay s Cape Arago: Living S. Oregon Coast History
Published 07/01/21 at 6:45 PM PDT
By Oregon Coast Beach Connection staff
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(Coos Bay, Oregon) - World War II along the Oregon coast meant some vast changes for everyone – just as throughout the United States. But here, it meant people guarding the shores, often quite literally, with soldiers patrolling beaches on foot and various aircraft keeping an eye on things. It also meant secret or semi-secret installations all over the coastline. Patrol base camps, runways, forts of one kind or another and actual radar stations housed in secret bunkers dotted the region. (Photos Steven Greif, Coos HIstory Museum)
Authorities seek suspect in suspicious house fire
One person was rescued from a home that caught fire in Charleston early this morning, and authorities say accelerants were likely used to set the blaze.
Posted: May 21, 2021 6:13 PM
Posted By: Chelsea Hunt
COOS COUNTY, Ore. – Authorities are looking for a man suspected of setting a house on fire in Coos County on Friday.
Residents of a home in the Barview district of Charleston called dispatch at about 2:30 a.m. reporting their house was on fire.
Firefighters with the Charleston and Coos Bay fire departments arrived to the 91200 block of Cape Arago Highway and rescued one of the residents from the upper story of the home.
Charleston Marina on South Oregon Coast: Where Placid Meets the Raucous
Published 02/22/21 at 5:46 AM PDT
By Oregon Coast Beach Connection staff
(Charleston, Oregon) – Calming (ish) breezes, eye-popping sunsets and the distinctive reflections of boat riggings cast on Coos Bay, along with that hypnotizing sound of waves lapping lazily beneath: there s little like the Charleston Marina on the southern Oregon coast. Not even a mile inland along the river mouth from sometimes raucous sands, the marina occupies a different kind of space. It s bustling at times and others devoid of activity; a bit more manmade yet somehow truly rugged all at once.