Programs and projects in Lincoln County get $11.3 million from 2022 Legislature; school district regains $846,000 a year

March 8, 2022

Lincoln County infrastructure projects and a local program to set up a response system to help the homeless received a total of $11.35 million in funding from the Oregon Legislature, which completed its short, 35-day 2022 session Friday. The money came from legislative approval of $1.4 billion in new spending on housing, childcare programs, rural infrastructure and summer school

Mother of girl found dead off Lincoln County highway pleads not guilty to murder

March 7, 2022

By The Oregonian/OregonLive NEWPORT — The mother of the young girl found dead in 2020 along a muddy riverbank in Lincoln County pleaded not guilty Monday to a single count of aggravated murder. Shawna Mae Browning, 29, was extradited from Detroit, Mich. where she was arrested in November in the death of 9-year-old daughter Hayley Mae Coblentz. Lincoln County Jail logs show

Oregon Legislature ended 2022 session with big spending, policy changes, little political rancor

March 7, 2022

Money will move to just about every part of life in Oregon to aid individuals, families and communities Speaker Dan Rayfield, D-Corvallis, presides over the House on Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2022. (Ron Cooper/Oregon Capital Chronicle) By JULIA SHUMWAY, LYNNE TERRY and ALEX BAUMHARDT/Oregon Capital Chronicle SALEM — With a final flurry of votes and speeches, Oregon legislators ended their 2022

Siletz tribal members in southern Oregon are leading the effort to revive and spread word of the native Kalapuyan language

March 7, 2022

By MYERS REECE/Underscore.news On a drizzly January morning, Esther Stutzman’s dining room table is covered with sticky notes, worksheets, notepads and several bulky Kalapuya dictionaries. Seated next to Stutzman are her two daughters and granddaughter, all Kalapuyan descendants and enrolled members of the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians. Their jovial banter belies the gravity of their mission: to revive

Seal Rock Fire board wants to offer chief’s job to Ewing, loses two firefighters and board member and decides to keep negotiating with COCF&R

March 7, 2022

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com SEAL ROCK – The Seal Rock Fire District board wants to offer the part-time consultant who has been helping the district since October a two-year contract to be its fire chief. If Will Ewing accepts, his first job might may be trying to replace two of the district’s four firefighters who submitted resignations last week to

Still wrestling with staffing issues, new Yachats manager again asks for public’s patience with city hall closure

March 7, 2022

YACHATS – Yachats city manager Heide Lambert is again asking for patience from the public when it comes to dealing with city hall. Lambert, who started as city manager on Feb. 14, closed city hall at the end of February and plans to keep it closed for the month of March except for scheduled appointments or transactions via the

Samaritan medical group in Newport adds surgeon from Mayo Clinic

March 6, 2022

NEWPORT – Dr. Nathaniel Uecker, a general surgeon specializing in minimally invasive surgery has joined Samaritan Surgical Specialists in Newport. Uecker specializes in laparoscopic gallbladder, hernia and bowel surgery and endoscopic procedures with a particular interest is in skin cancer and wound closure techniques. Uecker’s medical degree is from Ross University School of Medicine in Miramar, Fla. He completed residency

OSU researcher will lead online webinar March 16 on coastal resilience

March 6, 2022

NEWPORT – How coast communities can increase their resilience to natural hazards from tsunamis to landslides is the subject of the next online “Hatfield Science on Tap” at 6 p.m. Wednesday, March 16. The online webinar will be led by Peter Ruggiero, director of The Cascadia Coastlines and Peoples Hazards Research Hub at Oregon State University’s Hatfield Marine Science Center. Ruggiero’s talk is entitled,

Another long discussion by Yachats council on repairs to Little Log Church ends with 3-2 vote to seek bids for plans — and more frustration

March 3, 2022

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com YACHATS – The Yachats City Council voted 3-2 Thursday to seek bids for a structural engineering report so it can get estimates for possible repairs to the city’s deteriorating Little Log Church Museum building. It was the essentially same decision the council made two months ago – except this time Councilor Anthony Muirhead joined Mayor Leslie

Oregon’s COVID-19 cases dropping even faster that forecast ahead of governor’s mask timeline next week

March 3, 2022

By GARY A. WARNER/Oregon Capital Bureau Oregon could fall below 400 patients with COVID-19 in state hospitals within days, but Gov. Kate Brown is not changing the March 12 date for lifting indoor mask requirements. The Oregon Health Authority reported Thursday that 404 people with COVID-19 were in hospitals in the state. Oregon Health and Science University forecast the number