r/Coosbay

Planning on being in the area, staying in Coos Bay itself, from the 11th through the 14th or 15th of June, and I'm hoping to find stuff to do while in town!

Specifically looking for a couple things...Recommendations for activities for Kids Elementary to Junior High age that may not be listed on events calendars yet? I'm also hoping to find a bar/restaurant that does Karaoke the 12th/13th/14th (If I'm still in town that evening?). Everything I seem to find that has Karaoke mentioned and actually on a schedule is located in either Coquille or Bandon. I don't mind making the drive, but I'm in Coos Bay to be in Coos Bay!

Thanks in Advance!

Hey everyone! I’ll be moving to Coos Bay for work and am looking at apartments. Currently looking at the Sea Mist apartments on the corner of Norman and Newmark.

How is the area? Pretty safe and kept up? Thanks in advance!

I plan on going tent camping at Bastendorff next month and wanted to see which is the "best" spot to reserve in loop A? We will have our dog with us and we like to use hammocks as well as tents for sleeping. It's been so long since I've been there I cant recall where best to be. I'm also open to loop B, but it appears they have much less availability. Is this because they're "better"?

I’ve been digging through public records lately and… I’ve noticed some stuff.

Not gonna drop specifics yet because I don’t want to get scooped, but it basically involves a weird overlap pattern between city funding and local banks. There’s some crossover with who’s involved on both sides, which is what made me look deeper in the first place.

I’m not saying anything illegal is happening, I genuinely don’t know. It seems like some fishy pay-to-play scam stuff and I want to figure out if this is normal small-town behavior or something people have looked into before

Has anyone here ever dug into Coos Bay politics, URA activity, or local bank relationships? Or honestly anything else too, even if unrelated. I’m curious what else is out there.

Basically my question is this: What are people NOT talking about in Coos?

(Yes I made this account just to post this. Never used reddit before. Moved to Coos recently. I like "conspiracies" if you want to call it that)

I'm looking for a place to take my family to after a wedding ceremony. What is a nice restaurant that can accommodate 7 people??

Thanks!

Needing to transport 12 people for a golf trip. Would be pickup in North Bend 5/15 7:00 am, to a course in Florence for a round, then to a different course in Florence for a second round, then back to North Bend. Thanks for any leads!

Curious about the local bars. Which bar has the same regular customers in every night? A place where everybody knows everybody's names...

Will even consider a studio.
MUST allow cats.
What neighborhoods are safest for a single older female?

Dear avid CB/NB area gardeners,

New to gardening here this year, but not to gardening in general.

I am up in the hills above Mingus Park. Weird amalgamation of dark soil and sand, sun and shade, have good wind protection in the back yard.

FIRST… the slug/snail problem here: What is your best slug/snail remedy for slugs/snails eating true leaves from transplanted seedlings like Rudbeckia and Zinnia? They won’t touch Shasta Daisy and Calendula starts, as usual, but the land mollusks here breed like rabbits.

I need help from those who can offer local knowledge. I’d rather talk to local knowledgeable gardeners, than post on Reddit.

I’m currently experimenting with 3” collars cut from yogurt containers bound with 2” copper tape and beer/salt in lids nearby to attract them away that will make unfortunate slug juice. At my wits end. Napalm is not an option, and I can’t afford it anyway… 😁

These are perennial flowers in the front yard, lots of sun and sandy soil. “Organic” isn’t so important, but I prefer to use natural if possible because I’d rather not use actual poison… the rain will make it end up in the backyard. Backyard is lower and will eventually drain down to Mingus Park.

Open to kind and helpful suggestions.

I’m terrified to plant food seeds at this point in situ in the backyard. I need a vegetable garden, but don’t feel that I will be able to get much of a veg crop this year unless I can figure out how to stop these land mollusks that are eating everything.

Veg seeds are expensive here even with Bi-Mart sales and food plant seedlings are more ridiculous if something eats them.

SECOND… piss ants are everywhere. Help?

Because of the sandy soil? They have invaded my home (even throughout winter). Every room in my home has a bit of awkward cardboard with a glob of Great Value Strawberry Jam mixed with Borax, away from pets, and these little bastards line up like piggies at a trough for a night or two of gluttony and then disappear.

…Take it to your leader. Your queen. Please, by all that is holy. Just stop. Please.

It has always worked for me in the Willamette Valley. Once. Maybe twice. And then no more ants.

Not here.

It works for a while, but then they keep coming back. And back. And back. I’m still finding ants in rooms I rarely go into. Despite the cardboard Borax and Jam.

I figure the sandy soil around my home is host to eight or nine independent, full-blown ant communities who don’t have social media. When one colony dies, they Queen another, as another is dying from Borax? Is this Ant Chess?

Or maybe there are just too many colonies to kill? Am I doing something wrong? What can I do to kill off these ants that keep waking me up in the middle of the night because they’re crawling on my arms?

I can’t afford “monthly pest control”. Has anyone successfully eradicated these tiny bastards with a home remedy here in Coos Bay?

Help.

THIRD… hummingbirds. I put out two feeders with an appropriately healthy mixture of sugar water three days ago. I used to get Hummingbirds lining up and fighting like dudes at a bar when I lived in the valley, an hour after launch.

Here? Not one hummingbird. Not. One. Hummingbird. Not an Anna. Not a Rufous. For three days.

Ants? Yeah. Those little fuckers are marching down the fishing line. Somehow ending up INSIDE of the feeder, floating like a dead Esther Williams and her swimming cohorts, or guys jumping out a plane together. Just dead piss-ants.

Very artistic, but not the intent.

Are there hummingbirds here? And why are there so many ants? And slugs? And snails?

How do I garden here with everything wanting to creep and crawl and eat and destroy?

I just really want to be a good neighbor. The meth folks who lived here before had large TIRE PILES in the front yard, according to the neighbor.

I just want to grow perennials and meet locals who want to share plants. I love sharing plants.

Helpful information is appreciated. Kindly, and with humor.

Also, any local folks who are plant/gardening nerds who want to share knowledge/plants/seeds/starts? Please DM. Happy to share and talk plants. I don’t have many seeds yet, but am happy to share info and plants. ❤️

Finally, I would love ROOTED starts of Lithodora for the parking area out front. It grows so beautifully here. ❤️❤️❤️

I’ve been really afraid to post here. I hope this is a welcoming community.

Thank you.