C M C M Y K Y K TOP AMATEURS Local players win in match play, B1 Coqui ille To & Co wn G ountry Garden y n Tour Satur rday, , July 13th S ee o ur ad d bel low! Serving Oregon’s South Coast Since 1878 TUESDAY,JULY 9, 2013 NB man arraigned Document claims suspect admits to killing wife BY GEORGE ARTSITAS decade, but this is his first time head around. The World facing a potential life sentence. The affidavit states earlier in the day, a couple of church COQUILLE — Wayne Ray- Witnesses statement friends spent time with Hagn- mond Hagner had an answer to North Bend Police Depart- er and his wife at their house every one of Judge Michael J. ment received a call at 3:26 at 2517 Marion St. One of the Gillespie’s questions as quickly p.m Friday of gunshots on guests was a retired psychi- as they left his lips Monday at Marion Street in North Bend. atric nurse and allegedly asked the Coos County Courthouse. According to court docu- if Hagner had been hearing Hagner was arraigned for ments, when Hagner was voices. Hagner said he had murder, following the death of interviewed by Coos County been hearing voices, but his wife, Anna Lee Hagner, on Sheriff Craig Zanni, he admit- declined to go to the hospital, Friday at their North Bend ted to shooting his 57-year- the report states. By Alysha Beck, The World home. old wife. The documents state The couple then reported Wayne Hagner was arraigned in Coos County Circuit Court Judge Gillespie’s courtroom on Monday for Hagner, 44, has been in Hagner moved back and forth allegedly killing his wife in his North Bend home Friday night. Hagner is being held in the Coos County trouble with the law for over a on his chair while jerking his SEE HAGNER | A8 jail on $2 million bail. Help on Landslide of lawsuits MHS to the way interview for timber principal counties hopefuls I Legislature OKs bill BY THOMAS MORIARTY right before adjourning The World for the session COOS BAY — Parents will get the chance to cross-examine job BY JEFF BARNARD candidates for principal of Coos AND LAUREN GAMBINO Bay’s main high school next week. The Associated Press Superintendent Dawn Granger told the Coos Bay School Board on SALEM — The Oregon Legisla- Monday night that the district is ture on Monday passed a bill to planning to use a public panel allow struggling timber counties interview to help select a replace- to use measures other than voter- ment for Marshfield High School approved property taxes to pay for Principal Greg Mulkey. public safety. Mulkey, who has held the posi- The votes Monday were 22-7 in tion since 2008, will be stepping the Senate and 49-10 in the down this year to hold the dual House. Gov. John Kitzhaber is roles of dean of students and ath- expected to sign the bill. letic director. The bill, HB 3453, would allow Granger said the district has the governor to declare a public identified five qualified candidates safety emergency after consulting Contributed Photo — two of whom hold doctorates. with legislators and sheriffs and A 2012 photo filed with a complaint in federal court last month depicts a landslide that dumped 1,500 cubic yards of “We advertised with COSA — getting two different approvals construction debris into Coos Bay’s Coalbank Slough. The landslide is at the center of a Clean Water Act suit filed which is the Confederation of from the county. Counties could against Johnson Rock Products and a landowner couple by two Oregon environmental groups. Oregon School Administrators,” impose an income tax, a tax on 911 Granger said. services or other assessments. The The superintendent said the state would bear half the costs. district plans to bring the candi- “The state is now trying to pro- Johnson Rock faces an dates in for initial interview with a vide a safety net for us to come up team composed of seven staff with a solution,” Josephine County members — ranging from teachers Commissioner Cherryl Walker to auxiliary staff — on Monday. said. “This is not the solution.” Granger said she hoped to inter- While passage of the bill gives avalanche of legal action view the two most-preferred can- counties the power to keep law didates Wednesday after the pub- enforcement going, even if voters lic meeting. She said the district won’t pay for it, it is not a long- BY EMILY THORNTON the other lawsuits had the normal rainfall in both areas,”he hopes to have selected a potential term solution to revenue problems The World potential for unraveling every- said. principal by the end of the week. that have been building for two thing the company had already However, the overall total for MHS Booster Club President decades. Rural counties that once COOS BAY — A Coos Bay worked out with the DEQ. January through April 2012 was Steve Schneiderman asked if the depended on federal timber rev- company accused of polluting a A legal action filed by DEQ about average, meaning April board would consider adding a enues have been struggling to pay waterway significant to salmon claims Johnson Rock dumped was a drier month than March. member of the organization to the for sheriff’s patrols, jails and pros- populations says lawsuits filed excavated soil, including con- Sandler said the average rain for district’s interview team. ecutors since a federal safety net against it have the potential to struction debris, on a property the quarter is 30 inches. In the Schneiderman had loudly criti- expired. Voters in the counties hinder clean up progress. near the 63000 block of Juniper 2012 period, North Bend cized Granger’s role in Mulkey’s closest to going broke have refused Johnson Rock is facing up to Drive in Coos Bay. The report recorded around 24 inches and position change at a June school to raise taxes to fill the gap. four legal actions following a said the material was used to fill Bandon tallied just over 37 board meeting, where he suggest- Last week, the Legislature landslide that potentially pol- in a swampy area. inches. ed the outgoing principal would be enacted another bill to help timber luted an area of Coalbank During heavy rains in April DEQ’s initial complaint also well-suited to replace her. counties with elections, tax col- Slough. 2012, the land slid into the says Johnson Rock caused water Chairman James Martin said a lection and veterans services. Brian Chenoweth, attorney slough, causing environmental pollution. The company has Booster Club member joining the Greg Wolf, the governor’s direc- for Johnson Rock, said the com- issues, according to Pamela been working with the DEQ on interview committee was unlikely tor of intergovernmental affairs pany “hadn’t been on that Blake, South Coast basin coor- an agreement to fix the slide because the district had already and regional solutions, said the property for awhile.” He also dinator for DEQ. area, but has yet to sign off on it. assembled a team. governor will sign the bill but claims at the time of the slide, If the dispute goes to court, Johnson Rock has had Follow reporter Thomas hopes he never has to use it. there hadn’t been any signifi- determining a definition for numerous extensions and the Moriarty on Twitter: “It’s up to them,” Wolf said of cant rainfall, which the Depart- “heavy rainfall” could be an DEQ has become impatient, @ThomasDMoriarty. the counties. “If they do not ment of Environmental Quality issue. Blake said. If the company request the declaration (of an claims caused the slide. Ryan Sandler, a representa- doesn’t sign, they will go to a Want to attend? emergency), it does not get made.” “We have been attempting to tive for the National Weather contested hearing Aug. 26. Officials in Curry and Josephine The Coos Bay School District will hold a work with the DEQ to resolve Service in Medford, said Ban- A second complaint was filed public panel interview of candidates for the counties, the two closest to going the claims with the property don and North Bend collection by Glenn Lindh, the landowner broke, are in no hurry to use the Marshfield High School principal position at owner,” Chenoweth said. He sites both reported above aver- of the property where the fill 5 p.m. July 16 at the Milner Crest Education also said neither party would be age rainfall totals in March 2012. Center, 1255 Hemlock Ave., Coos Bay. 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