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Low-income housing development breaks ground, ﬁrst of its kind in 40 years BY NATE SCHWARTZ Editor

On a rainy Thursday afternoon in North Bend, representatives from a number of organizations gathered for the groundbreaking on the North Bend Family Housing project at the site of the former Bangor School. Led by the North Bend City/Coos Curry Housing Authority (NBC/CCHA), this is the ﬁrst low-income housing development of its size in 40 years. A collaboration at the state and local level, the 105 units in phase one will be a hybrid of subsidized units and affordable housing available to qualifying families at 60% of the local mean income. “For the project-based voucher units, we’ll have 30 of those, so families will have to income qualify,” said Matt Vorderstrasse, Executive Director at the NBC/CCHA. “For the permanent supportive housing units, See HOUSING Continued on Page 16

County court sentences life in state hospital in quadruple homicide, kidnapping case

and believing they were also federal agents watching him, ran down two other visitors at the RV park. After a 2021 spree that would Anthony (74) and Linda (73) claim the lives of four people Oyster were retirees hoping to and see another kidnapped, Oen enjoy traveling the country in their Nicholson waived his right to a golden years. Instead, Anthony trial by jury and was tried by stip- was killed at the scene, with Linda ulated facts in Coquille’s County succumbing to severe injuries in Court on Monday, April 14th. The the hospital three weeks later. The ruling from Judge Martin Stone prosecutor, retired District Attorwas guilty but for insanity with a ney Paul Frasier, shared a powerful sentence of life in the Oregon State statement from the Oyster’s sons, Hospital. to which Nicholson gave little Since turning himself in to reaction. police in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, “Dad and Mom had worked Nicholson has been in and out of their whole lives with their dream psych evaluations that revealed of traveling the United States, due to his intense schizophrenia enjoying each other’s company and paranoid delusions, he was in retirement and exploring our unable to “grasp the criminality of wonderful country and when they his actions”, according to the court. went out for a walk on this fateful Believing his father was a fedmorning, that dream was taken eral agent out to get him, Nicholfrom them,” wrote Mark Oyster son (34), stabbed his 83 year-old and Earle Holt in their statement. father, Charles Nicholson, 18 times in their travel trailer parked at the See SENTENCED Mill Casino’s RV park in North Continued on Page 9 Bend. He then got in their truck,

BY NATE SCHWARTZ Editor

Senator Merkley and Congresswoman Hoyle visit for annual town hall tour BY NATE SCHWARTZ Editor

At the North Bend Community Center on April 15th, 2025, scores of Coos County citizens came out to attend the town hall of Senator Jeff Merkley. This is the 17th annual tour of town halls that the Senator has embarked on. Along with his fellow Oregonian Senator, Ron Wyden, Merkley is the only U.S. Senator to conduct in-person town halls in every county of their state. He was joined by Congresswoman Val Hoyle for an hour-long session hearing questions from the people of Coos County, many of which raised concerns over the actions of the Trump Administration in their ﬁrst several months in power. Before hearing from the audience, the pair recognized the work of Oregon Bay Area Beautiﬁcation’s efforts to clean up our public spaces. At the forefront of multiple questions was our environment after multiple executive orders attempting to deregulate protections, See TOWN HALL Continued on Page 3

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