Newport newspaper will go to once-a-week publication Feb. 10

January 22, 2023

NEWPORT – The Newport News-Times, which has been publishing twice a week since 1993, will cut back to a one day a week on Friday, Feb. 10. The paper announced the change in a news story Friday. Publisher Jeremy Burke said a significant decline in advertising due to the pandemic, staff shortages and increasing production costs led to the “difficult

Oregon Coast CC plans to ask voters in May to approve $32 million bond for new workforce training center, other projects

January 22, 2023

NEWPORT – The Oregon Coast Community College board intends to ask Lincoln County voters in May to approve a $32 million bond to replace one expiring next year. The bond would be used to build a facility on its Newport campus to house new trades programs and make upgrades to facilities on that campus and at satellite campuses in

Lincoln City man killed Thursday in Highway 18 crash

January 21, 2023

A 71-year-old Lincoln County man was killed Thursday, Jan. 19, when his small SUV collided head on with another vehicle on the Oregon Highway 18 bypass west of Dundee. Oregon State Police said John W. McKevitt of Lincoln City died at the scene of the 4:30 p.m. collision. Police said McKevitt was headed west in his Toyota Rav4 when for

Oregon based newspaper group plans to open newsroom in Medford, following Mail Tribune’s shutdown

January 21, 2023

By ZACH DEMARS/The Bulletin On the heels of the closure of the century-old Medford Mail Tribune, EO Media Group announced Friday the company’s plans to open a new publication in the city. The paper, which will be called The Tribune, will focus on publishing news online that will be curated for print editions three times a week. EO Media Group

After boom of 2021-22, Oregon’s Dungeness crab fishermen now buffeted by low prices, short season and rough weather

January 19, 2023

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews If you buy a fresh Oregon Dungeness crab from the market this weekend, you’ll pay around $7.95 a pound – half what it cost this time last year. But because of the dynamics of the industry – and the law of supply and demand – the crabber who has hundreds of thousands of dollars tied up

Pushed by new mayor, Yachats council begins discussion on how to address longstanding concerns over water supply

January 19, 2023

By KENNETH LIPP/YachatsNews YACHATS – Every city councilor for the past five years has agreed that Yachats needs to find a source of water for the lean summer months and to meet future demand. But agreeing on the first steps toward doing so has proven a challenge. Yachats’ new mayor Craig Berdie said during the city council’s second meeting of

Bluegrass music will break out all around Florence next week as resurrected Winter Music Festival lights up town

January 19, 2023

By SUSAN PALMER/YachatsNews If you visit Florence at the end of January, be prepared for music, lots of it, breaking out spontaneously almost anywhere. That’s what happens when bluegrass musicians come to town. The Florence Winter Music Festival, celebrating its 20th anniversary, gets underway Thursday, Jan. 26, kicking off with a daytime concert for area students and an open

Both Lincoln County legislators optimistic about cooperation and issues as 2023 session begins in Salem

January 19, 2023

By KENNETH LIPP/YachatsNews Lincoln County’s legislators are optimistic about cooperation in Salem as they head to the Capitol to tackle ambitious goals for the 2023 session. Gov. Tina Kotek and both Democrats and Republicans in the Oregon Legislature have identified priorities for this year’s legislative session that, in many areas, overlap. Solutions differ, but on everyone’s list are the

King tides make last appearance of the season this weekend

January 19, 2023

The last in the three-month series of king tides returns to the Oregon coast this weekend. In Oregon, king tides occur three months in the winter and three times during the summer when the Earth, moon and sun align to produce the highest tides of the year – ranging from 9 to 12 feet on the central Oregon coast.

Lincoln County lawmaker introduces legislation to address concerns about conditions at OHSU’s primate center

January 19, 2023

Deaths at the Oregon Health & Science University’s primate center in Beaverton have included rhesus macaques and other animals. File photo from 2008. (Oregon Health & Science University) By BEN BOTKIN/Oregon Capital Chronicle SALEM — A state lawmaker is calling for more transparency and accountability at the Oregon National Primate Research Center, which conducts medical research for human benefits and