OSU announces $200 million technology research center launched by $100 million in donations

October 16, 2022

By MEERAH POWELL/Oregon Public Broadcasting Oregon State University announced a new $200 million research and education center on Friday, focused on supporting the semiconductor and general technology industries in the region. The center will be launched by $100 million in donations. The university announced the new center at a fundraising campaign launch event Friday night. The center will be named

Lincoln County joins 4th Congressional District just in time for a choice between two widely different candidates

October 16, 2022

By GRANT STRINGER/The Oregonian In the race to represent Oregon’s 4th District, a Republican lauded for bravery on a French train in 2015 and a Democratic politician who served in the Legislature for years and then as a state agency head each say they’d be the best replacement for the state’s longest-serving member of Congress. Congressman Peter DeFazio Oregon’s Democrat-controlled Legislature

Politicians on Oregon’s Nov. 8 ballot seek to be first, longest-serving, oldest and more

October 16, 2022

By GARY A. WARNER/Oregon Capital Bureau The Nov. 8 election could result in a number of firsts for Oregon. Ron Wyden could become Oregon’s longest-tenured U.S. Senator; Betsy Johnson could be the state’s oldest governor; Tina Kotek could be the first lesbian to serve as a governor in the United States; Jamie McLeod-Skinner could be Oregon’s first lesbian member of

Gomberg too good, too responsive and too hardworking to “trade away”

October 15, 2022

To the editor: I’ve read with bemusement the several recent letters supporting a candidate running to take the seat of our incumbent state representative, David Gomberg. No doubt this person is the fine human being her supporters portray, but I’m at a loss to think why anyone would imagine that she, or anyone else, could possibly be a more responsive,

League of Women Voters sets forum for House, Lincoln County candidates

October 13, 2022

NEWPORT — The League of Women Voters of Lincoln County is hosting a forum at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 20 featuring some of the candidates for the Oregon House District 10, Lincoln County commissioner, clerk and treasurer in the Nov. 8 general election. The forum will be in the community room of Oregon Coast Community College’s Newport campus, 400 S.E.

What you need to know about mushroom hunting and gathering as season hits full stride in coastal forests

October 13, 2022

Compiled from the Salem Statesman Journal and YachatsNews.com It’s mushroom season on the Oregon coast. The prize of the local fungi group is the Pacific golden chanterelle, which was declared Oregon’s official state mushroom in 1999 and begins popping up shortly after fall rains begin. But, many people don’t know that the chanterelle season starts way before the rains,

City of Waldport agrees to sell fire station to COCF&R for $1.02 million — and forgive loan if district helps it win big state grant

October 13, 2022

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com WALDPORT – The contentious issue of ownership of the main fire station in downtown Waldport may be settled – for one to five years, at least. Now all the city of Waldport and Central Oregon Coast Fire & Rescue need to do is convince the 2023 Legislature to give it $4.4 million to help the city

Lincoln County advisory group will look at 6 companies to oversee $1 million grant to combat homelessness

October 13, 2022

An advisory board appointed to combat homelessness in Lincoln County has selected six firms to compete for the right to oversee administration of the effort. Interviews will take place after members of the Lincoln County Homeless Advisory Board have reviewed proposals submitted by the firms. The effort, expected to cost $200,000, is part of a larger, $400 million statewide effort

Oregon health officials urge people to get booster vaccines to ward off expected winter surge of coronavirus

October 13, 2022

By LYNNE TERRY/Oregon Capital Chronicle Covid-19 cases could start going up within a month, marking a fall and winter surge of the virus along with an expected uptick in flu infections, a leading health official said Thursday. “While we are all tired of talking about Covid-19, Oregonians are still getting sick with the disease,” Dr. Dean Sidelinger, the state’s chief

We knew this, right? A good “parenting style” for dogs makes them more social and secure, OSU study finds

October 13, 2022

By OSU NEWS SERVICE CORVALLIS – Dogs with owners who have high expectations and are highly responsive to their dog’s behavior and needs are more social, more secure when away from their owners and more persistent problem solvers, an Oregon State University study found. “We found that pet parenting style does predict patterns of dog behavior and cognition,” said Monique Udell,