Port of Gold Beach District

Gold Beach residents Rod Craggs and Mark Lottis are seeking election to Position 3 on the Port of Gold Beach District board of directors. 

The port district, established in 1955, is governed by a volunteer five-member board and a paid manager. The board is responsible for managing and maintaining the marine port, adjacent port property, Huntley Park and the nearby airport for commercial and recreational users. The district’s budget for the 2012-13 year was about $1.1 million.

Curry General Hospital is temporarily discontinuing its obstetrician services as nurses have retired or moved away and the remaining ones seek more training in that specialty.

Andrew Bair, CEO of Curry Health Network, met with the medical executive committee and administration about the situation and the board agreed it would be in the best interest of all involved to suspend the service for an estimated six months. Currently, the hospital has two midwives and one obstetrician on staff.

The Brookings-Harbor School District budget committee approved a $22.9 million budget on May 2 for the fiscal school year of 2013-14, and there will be no major cuts to the calendar year, no layoffs of teachers or staff, and no elimination of programs. 

The school board is expected to make the final approval in June.

The Secretary of State’s office has declined to investigate alleged violations of election laws by Curry County commissioners David Itzen and David Brock Smith, saying none of the three complaints “rise to the level of undue influence” under state law.

The complaint was filed May 6 by Thomas Huxley of the Curry County Republican Central Committee.

Linda Bozack and Lauren Spector hand out literature supporting passage of Ballot Measure 8-71 from a table staged outside of the Brookings Post Office Monday. The Pilot/Jane Stebbins

The two – and pup Meka – are part of the campaign arm of the group supporting the tax measure, which if approved, is estimated to restore $4.5 million of law enforcement services in Curry County. 

The Curry Coastal Pilot learned late Tuesday that House Bill 3453, legislation that would allow the state to combine Curry County’s public safety services with those of the cities, had been amended after languishing in committee for about six weeks.

The Brookings city council has approved the replacement of a ultraviolet light disinfection unit at the Wastewater Treatment Plant, officials there announced Tuesday.

Typically, sewage is processed into wastewater at the plant, and that effluent is discharged into the ocean. The final stage of treating the wastewater is running it through the UV light unit.

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