BANDON — On Monday, July 4, the Greater Bandon Association, City of Bandon, Bandon Chamber of Commerce, Bandon Lions Club, Face Rock Creamery, Port of Bandon, and VFW Medal of Honor Post No. 3440 Bandon are all teaming up to…

Study supports cranberry + probiotics combination for anti-UTI benefits  NutraIngredients-usa.com

BANDON -- A meeting to explain the status and schedule of the electrical work and street reconstruction being done in Old Town will be held at 7 p.m. Tuesday, June 21, in council chambers at City Hall, 555 Highway 101.

BANDON – Alive After Five returns to Bandon from 5-7:30 p.m. Friday, June 17. The event is free and this is the first of the monthly activity for the season.

BANDON -- The Class of 2016 will graduate from Bandon High School at 7 p.m. Saturday, June 11, at Otis K. Murray Court.

Wilderness Poets Oregon Cranberries (Sweetened with Apples) - Dried Cranberries, 8 Ounce (227 Grams)  Amazon.com

All kinds of things are happening…just not at United Cranberry!  With the 2015 crop, all of our members transferred their contracts to Cranberry Growers Cooperative, or CranGrow for short.  CranGrow has a little bit different structure than UCGC and was organized under a different WI statute for business reasons.  You can find out about that co op at www.crangrow.com

United Cranberry members have reason to be proud!  Our efforts began in 2010 with a goal of organizing independent growers.  We led with the BeBerryAware promotion and used our resources to fingerprint a cranberry. UCGC started handling fruit in 2012-2014 and developed a significant customer base for our dried cranberries that we sold under Wisconsin’s Best Cranberries.  With both UCGC and WBC being wound down, the future is CranGRow!  All of the success of CranGRow will have started with a hand full of growers back in 2010 thinking that something had to change!  Thank you all.

CranGRow has a new processing plant under construction in Warrens, WI. We will keep the blog going under United Cranberry unless we find something better!  Stay tuned for pictures and info on CranGRow!

“There was a meeting of independent cranberry growers in Wisconsin Rapids on June 2nd, 2016. Attorneys from Lawton & Cates provided an update on the lawsuit against Ocean Spray and reviewed options going forward. Various growers expressed an interest in joining the case and proceeding as individual plaintiffs. If you missed the meeting and are interested in an update on the case and hearing about your options going forward, you should contact Jim Olson, Scott Hassett or Dan Lenz at Lawton & Cates, (608) 282-6200.”

As our front page story today indicates, we have a potential disaster on our hands in the advancing threat of sudden oak death, the fungal infection that’s devastated timberland in California and has been slowly advancing in the last decade…

BROOKINGS — Curry County Commissioner David Brock Smith's eyes widen in amazement as he scans the landscape near Brookings.

June 3, 2016 Scale Update  Oregon Cranberry Growers Association

COOS COUNTY – Nearly 10 months have passed since the Coos County Sheriff's Office had to prematurely say goodbye to K9 Neeko, but his successor has already begun to put his best paws forward.

NORTH BEND — “Kids need to know they are part of something that's been here a long time,” said historian Steven Greif about a project he's been working on since 2010.

The lawyers for the plaintiffs have asked me to post the following:

To:​All Independent Cranberry Growers

We will be holding a meeting at the Mead Hotel in Wisconsin Rapids on Thursday, June 2, 2016 beginning at 7 pm to discuss the impact of the recent court decision denying Plaintiffs’ motion for class certification and to outline options going forward. All independent cranberry growers are invited to attend. If you have or have had a contract with Ocean Spray since 2009, please contact this office before attending. 

Lawton & Cates, S.C.

608-282-6200

BANDON -- Beginning Memorial Day weekend, the Bandon Historical Museum will be open seven days a week. The museum runs its summer Hours from Memorial Day through the Cranberry Festival in September. The rest of the year the museum is…

I was very excited to get an email this morning from my friend Gary Carter in Port Orford. He, too, is a plant lover and cares enough to share resource information valuable to anyone who wants to help save our…

COOS BAY — Oregon Coast Culinary Institute students are getting an education in the distinctive foods of the Celtic nations in time for the South Coast Celtic Fest on May 7.

5-2-16 Scale Update  Oregon Cranberry Growers Association

BANDON -- The Bandon Cranberry Festival is seeking members for the 2016 Cranberry Court.

BANDON -- Jack Hackett has almost 900 rhododendrons, 100 hydrangeas, many azaleas and dozens of other flowering trees and bushes, berries and even lemon, avocado and orange trees on his property north of Bandon. It all makes him happy, but…