Illness forces cancellation of speech Sunday in Yachats on exclusion laws

April 10, 2025

UPDATE: Organizers announced Thursday that Zachary Stocks, executive director of Oregon Black Pioneers, has Covid and they they have had to cancel Sunday’s presentation. View the Future executive director Gretchen Dubie said Stocks will reschedule his talk once he and organizers can find a new date for the presentation. — Lincoln Chronicle YACHATS – The executive director of Oregon

Lincoln City police news release on April 9 burglary arrest

April 10, 2025

On Tuesday, April 8th, 2025 Officers were dispatched to a burglary at the Lincoln City Dutch Bros location after a subject shattered a window and entered the store. The subject failed to break open a cash register and fled the area without success. On Wednesday, April 9th, 2025, Officers were dispatched to the Lincoln City Human Bean after the same

Long on potential but still assembling its staff, online news outlet launches Thursday in Eugene

April 10, 2025

By MIKE ROGOWAY/The Oregonian/OregonLive Eugene lost dozens of local journalists after The Register-Guard newspaper sold to corporate, out-of-state owners in 2018. Longtime Register-Guard columnist Bob Welch said the community also lost a sense of itself. “Eugene has always been a politically yeasty place,” Welch said, given to ideological foment and agitation. And yet Welch said The Register-Guard had served as a

From Kernville to Rose Lodge to Taft, new museum exhibit tells stories of Lincoln City area’s first post offices

April 10, 2025

By LORI TOBIAS/Oregon ArtsWatch LINCOLN CITY — The letters came from as far as China and as near as a five-minute-drive away, arriving at post offices often established before their towns had names. The new and 10-month-long Postage, People, and Place exhibit at the North Lincoln County Historical Museum, shares the story of how the U.S. Postal Service shaped the place

The completed 60-mile Corvallis to the Sea Trail is inspiration for new “Life & Times” hiking book

April 10, 2025

By GRETCHEN AMMERMAN/Oregon Coast TODAY A few years ago, a friend and I “fast packed” a section of the 60-mile C2C Trail, which begins in Corvallis and ends at the “sea,” or more accurately, the Pacific Ocean. Fast packing is a not-particularly-pretty action that is faster than hiking, but because you are carrying all the food and gear you

Surfrider, SOLVE schedule Newport-area cleanups for Earth Day

April 10, 2025

Five beach cleanup efforts will take place Saturday, April 19 across five sites around the Newport area in honor of Earth Day. Registration is open for the annual event, hosted by the Newport Chapter of the Surfrider Foundation in partnership with Stop Oregon Litter and Vandalism. The cleanups will take place from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, April 19.

Symphony orchestra concludes its season with Bayfront performance Saturday night

April 9, 2025

By Oregon Coast TODAY The Newport Symphony Orchestra concludes its 2024-25 season with the final Chamber Music on the Bayfront concert Saturday, April 12. The program will feature hornist Frances Pinkham, concertmaster violinist Casey Bozell and guest pianist Stephen Lewis from Portland. The recital begins with “Make It Short” by Paul Lansky. This charming piece is the fourth movement

As legislators try to find money to repair roads, ODOT report shows gas tax falls more heavily on rural drivers

April 9, 2025

By NIGEL JAQUISS/Oregon Journalism Project Last week, the Legislature’s Joint Committee on Transportation released its long-awaited funding proposal for the Oregon Department of Transportation. The proposal, which would raise nearly $1 billion a year, includes a slew of ideas, such as higher title and registration fees, a sales tax on vehicles, a road-use charge on delivery vehicles, and gradually

Newport’s Nye Beach paid parking plan not ready for prime time, so city council delays a year

April 8, 2025

The expansion of Newport’s paid parking program to the Nye Beach district will come later than expected after the city council agreed Monday to delay the rollout a year.

Bill that would require Oregon county election clerks to livestream voting processes sparks concerns

April 8, 2025

By CARLOS FUENTES/The Oregonian/OregonLive SALEM — A proposed bill that would require every Oregon county election office to livestream its vote tabulation processes could improve trust in the state’s elections, its proponents say. But officials who’d have to implement the bill, which was introduced by a Republican senator, say it would be costly and logistically difficult. Senate Bill 1054 would require