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KCIW News: Summer is The Hungry Season
Brookings-Harbor is experiencing a seasonal uptick in food insecurity. “Summer is often a hungry season for families,” explains Sister Cora Rose, who ministers at St. Timothy Episcopal Church in Brookings. “Students aren’t at school receiving meals and snacks; and...
KCIW News: KCIW News Talks with Senator Ron Wyden
Senator Ron Wyden held town meeting number 1083 in Gold Beach on May 28. KCIW spoke with him one-on-one as he travelled by car from Curry to Coos County for meeting 1084. Reporter: Lori Gallo Stoddard The opinions expressed here are those of the individual...
KCIW News: Soapbox Digest – Soapbox Messages from Members of Our Community
The KCIW Soapbox is your chance to talk, sing, rhyme, or rap about what’s important to you. Come to the KCIW Studio* any Wednesday at 2:00 PM. We’ll give you 2 minutes to share your two cents and put it on the air and on our website. Click HERE to find out how you can...
KCIW News: Curry County Commissioners Target Needle Exchange, Harm Reduction Program Operating in Brookings
Jessica Cejnar Andrews is the Bureau Chief for the Wild Rivers/Lost Coast Outpost. She tells KCIW that a Eugene-based HIV prevention organization that offers syringe exchange and harm reduction services in Brookings was forced to suspend operations on Friday, December...
KCIW News – Fourth Friday: June 23, 2023
On this edition of KCIW's News Magazine Show Fourth Friday, you'll hear about good news in our community. Like how volunteers from the Community Garden at Timothy's Episcopal Church are getting locally grown, organic produce to seniors, and how the Brookings-Harbor...
KCIW News Investigates: Beacon Broadband Follow-Up
Beacon Broadband, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Coos-Curry Electric Cooperative, connected its 1,000th customer on June 15, 2023. What does that mean to the members of Coos Curry Electric Cooperative? CCEC CEO Brent Bischoff's Response to KCIW Questions Georgia...
KCIW News: June 2023 Election, Coos-Curry Electric Coop Board of Directors Candidate Statements
Ballots for the Coos-Curry Electric Coop Board of Directors election were mailed to all Coop members on May 19, 2023. There are two open positions on the 7-member board, and four candidates campaigning for them. KCIW offered each candidate two minutes to make their...
KCIW News: Chetco Library Board Election, Voter Information
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cg3lhzCZ9V8 There’s a lot of local interest in the three seats up for grabs on the Chetco Public Library Board in the upcoming election. KCIW reached out to Kellie Evans, who has publicly denounced current Library policies and...
KCIW News: May 2023 Election, Brooking-Harbor School Board and Checto Community Library Candidate Statement
KCIW invited all of the candidates running for positions on the Chetco Community Library Board and the Brookings Harbor School District Board to speak directly to voters. We offered two minutes of free airtime to each, but only 5 of the 11 candidates took us up on the...
Mayor Pieper’s Facebook Chats
“In an attempt to better reach the community, I began doing live webcasts Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday at 6pm. I try to answer questions, provide context for decision making, explain decisions made, and better connect with people of Brookings.
This is an outlet for the community to better understand local government and know their Mayor. I only represent my personal views and not the City of Brookings or the Brookings City Council.”
– Mayor Jake Pieper
You can watch Mayor Pieper’s chats live at Mayor Pieper’s “dining room chats” Facebook page. Past chats can be viewed anytime at Mayor Pieper’s “dining room chats” Facebook page, or you can listen to the audio enhanced for easier listening on KCIW’s Mayor Pieper Facebook chats page.
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