By QUINTON SMITH/Lincoln Chronicle WALDPORT – A Tidewater man arrested for drunken driving last week after hitting one vehicle and then plowing his truck into an auto repair shop […]
Archives for April 2025
Waldport show returns for one day Saturday with 16 local artists
WALDPORT – Last fall, 14 Waldport artists put on a one-day show with hopes it would be popular. After more than 500 people poured through the doors of the Waldport […]
Samaritan Health Services board selects new leader to replace Boysen
CORVALLIS – The Samaritan Health Services board has selected the organization’s chief operating officer to lead the five-hospital system in Lincoln, Benton and Linn counties effective May 19. Marty Cahill, […]
Proposal to ban boat motors on Siletz River brings out competing interests on what’s best for users, environment
By QUINTON SMITH/Lincoln Chronicle Fishermen, boaters, and environmentalists are battling over a request by the Siletz Tribe to ban boat motors on a vast stretch of the Siletz River […]
Lincoln City’s top admnistrator resigns after three years in job
LINCOLN CITY – Lincoln City’s city manager Daphnee Legarza is resigning effective June 9. “We have received a resignation letter from our city manager … and the council needs to […]
Newport woman killed after Highway 20 head-on collision Thursday
A 42-year-old Newport woman was killed early Thursday on Highway 20 four miles east of Newport when the car she was driving crossed into the opposing lane, collided with one […]
Gray whales migrating north are malnourished, stressed and without many newborns, foreshadowing another die-off
By DANA TIMS/Lincoln Chronicle Thousands of gray whales now migrating north from Baja California are in such poor shape and so few calves were born this winter that researchers […]
Yachats council works to settle homeless shelter complaint, OKs new sheriff’s contract and to replace delineators
By GARRET JAROS/Lincoln Chronicle YACHATS – The Yachats city council dealt with a myriad of topics during a three-hour meeting Wednesday that shuffled through a deck of issues ranging […]
Noted OSU scientist and NOAA administrator tries to offer hope for oceans, humans during turbulent times
By SHAYLA ESCUDERO/Lincoln Chronicle NEWPORT – At the start of her lecture, environmental scientist and marine ecologist Jane Lubchenco projected a map onto a screen at Hatfield Marine Science […]
Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek fires head of troubled state public defense agency that’s in crisis
By CONRAD WILSON and LAUREN DAKE/Oregon Public Broadcasting SALEM — Gov. Tina Kotek has fired Jessica Kampfe, the head of the Oregon Public Defense Commission, which oversees indigent defense for […]