Author Mike Adams sells copies of his book during a booksigning event in October, 2011. The Pilot/Bill Schlichting

In about a six-week period all 1,100 copies of “Chetco,” a book about the history of Brookings-Harbor and the Chetco River by Mike Adams, were gone.

The book went on sale in November, and was sold out by Christmas.

A series of daytime flurries on Sunday turned into snow on the ground clear to the beach overnight in Brookings, and all along the Southern Oregon Coast.

While some problems were reported with icy roads – particularly in higher elevations and on bridges - no major problems were reported from the unsual weather.

ODOT crews were out early throughout Southern Oregon and all along the coast, even closing for a time the McCullough Bridge over Coos Bay due to icy conditions.

There were several non-injury fender benders due to slippery roads in the Brookings area.  People  had trouble driving down Marina Heights and up the entry way from Lower Harbor Road to Highway 101, and people skidded while driving across the Chetco Bridge, according to a dispatcher at Brookings Police Department. "All in all, though, we did pretty well,” the dispatcher added.

Coos-Curry Electric reported no serious problems due to the snowfall.

Monday's weather is forecast to remain cold and clear, with a rain-filled storm moving in on Tuesday.

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Crewmembers on the commercial fishing vessel Frya stack crab pots on the deck Friday. The Pilot/Steve Kadel

The smile on Tim Musser’s face said it all.

It was Wednesday, the day before local commercial crab fishermen finally headed out to set their traps, and Musser could barely contain his joy.

“I’ve been waiting like you can’t believe,” he said.

The Thomas Creek Bridge, north of Brookings, is 345 feet high. The Pilot/Bill Schlichting

A motorist on Highway 101 reported seeing a person pushing someone off the Thomas Creek Bridge on Wednesday.

Curry County Sheriff John  Bishop said the citizen’s tip was correct, but it wasn’t a crime in progress. Instead, it was a parachutist getting some help with his launch at 10:20 a.m.

“We think it was a father-son deal,” Bishop said.

 The results of an independent audit indicate that Brookings-Harbor School District had a $1.3 million carryover from the 2010-2011 school year, which is a little higher than expected.

However, Brookings-Harbor Education Association members were visibly upset during a round of negotiations with the district on Tuesday. Members felt some of this money could have been used to save recently cut programs.

The association was also upset because the carryover percentage went up at a time when they were led to believe that the district has no money.

 GOLD BEACH – After several day long meetings this week, the Curry County Citizens’ Committee has developed more than 20 recommendations to help the county out of its economic crisis.

The recommendations range from combining Brookings’ and the county’s 911 systems, to combining all the county’s police agencies, to several taxes – ranging from increasing property taxes to a sales tax.

But committee members overwhelmingly recommended Friday that any tax vote not be taken in the May primary election but delayed until the November General Election.

 The Brookings-Harbor School Board will hold a special school board meeting  Jan. 18 in the Kalmiopsis Elementary School Library to vote on a revised Riverside Charter Academy proposal. The regularly-scheduled school board meeting planned for that date was moved to Jan. 25.

At 6 p.m. on Jan. 18, the board will hold a board work session to meet with Andrea Hungerford of Hungerford Law Firm. Hungerford is an attorney for the district and a member and founder of a charter school in Oregon City. She will answer board members’ questions about the revised proposal. Then at 7 p.m. board members will vote on the modified proposal.

Crews begin work on the interior of the Bi-Mart building on Tuesday. The store, 31,000-square-feet, is hiring and plans to open to the public in March. The Pilot/Jef Hatch

Bi-Mart spokesman Don Leber said “50-plus” jobs will be created when the store off Railroad Avenue is completed.

Firefighters prepare to enter the charred remains of the house on Passley Road. The Pilot/Jef Hatch

“I thought it was a wreck down on the highway,” he said. “I came outside and the whole garage was on fire.”

The city of Brookings wants to raise the fee it charges Frontier Communications to do business here, but it’s too soon to know if that will translate to higher costs for Frontier customers.

On Monday, the Brookings City Council authorized staff to notify Frontier it wants to negotiate a new franchise fee agreement of 5 percent of gross revenues, up from the current 3.3 percent.