Oregon Coast CC directors appoint Alexander to board

January 19, 2025

The Oregon Coast Community College board has appointed newspaper publisher and college advocate Patrick Alexander of Lincoln City to a vacancy on its seven-member board. Alexander, who will be sworn in at the board’s February meeting, replaces Alison Robertson who resigned in December after 12 years on the board. He will fill the Zone 2 seat, representing Lincoln City. The

Most Siuslaw Forest fees are waived on ML King Day Monday

January 18, 2025

The U.S. Forest Service is waiving recreation fees at most day-use sites across the Siuslaw National Forest and its other properties in Oregon and Washington on Monday, Jan. 20, in recognition of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. This fee waiver is designed to allow more people to experience the recreational opportunities offered on national forests and is also part of

Fisherman drowns after being swept off rocks near Otter Crest

January 17, 2025

OTTER CREST — A 45-year-old Happy Valley man died Wednesday, Jan. 15 when he was swept off the rocks by a sneaker wave along the north end of Otter Crest Loop. Oregon State Police said Hong B. Su was fishing from the rocks with another man when he was washed out into the ocean by a sneaker wave about 2

OREGON COAST COMMUNITY COLLEGE EXEMPTION FROM COMPETITIVE BIDDING FOR A PUBLIC IMPROVEMENT NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

January 17, 2025

EXEMPTION FROM COMPETITIVE BIDDING FOR A PUBLIC IMPROVEMENT OREGON COAST COMMUNITY COLLEGE EXEMPTION FROM COMPETITIVE BIDDING FOR A PUBLIC IMPROVEMENT NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING The Oregon Coast Community College (OCCC) Board of Education, acting as the Local Contract Review Board (LCRB), will conduct a Public Hearing at 7:00 PM on Tuesday, February 25, 2025, both in-person and via Zoom.

City of Yachats begins to address concerns about non-working fire hydrants and their locations

January 16, 2025

By GARRET JAROS/YachatsNews YACHATS – A smoldering concern about fire hydrants in Yachats and whether they are plentiful enough and in working order has ignited a conversation between the city and fire officials. The subject, which had been on the minds of Yachats Rural Fire Protection District staff for several years, flamed in the past few months during its

CEO of Samaritan’s two hospitals in Lincoln County says “It’s been a year” of financial challenges

January 16, 2025

By CHRISTIAN WIHTOL and QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews Lesley Ogden’s job is to oversee the two hospitals in Lincoln County, its 1,000 employees and try to provide the best short- and long-term medical care possible in an economically disadvantaged rural area of the Oregon coast. That became harder in 2024 as the Samaritan Health Services hospitals in Newport and Lincoln City

Yachats fire board schedules special meeting to discuss district’s relationship with ambulance nonprofit

January 16, 2025

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews YACHATS – Unable to delve into two sensitive issues this week, the Yachats Rural Fire Protection District board has scheduled a special meeting Monday to discuss the district’s relationship with a nonprofit ambulance service and evaluate administrator Frankie Petrick. The meeting will be at 9 a.m. Monday at the district’s fire station. The first part of

Third year of growing Big Blue Film Festival this weekend showcases 34 films of 220 submitted

January 16, 2025

By LORI TOBIAS/Oregon ArtsWatch NEWPORT — Oregon coast winters long have served as a catalyst for creating events to bring people in from the cold and a recent addition to that list is the Big Blue Film Festival at OSU’s Hatfield Marine Science Center. But while Big Blue was conceived in part as a good excuse to come in out

Lincoln City councilor Mitch Parsons appointed to school district board

January 16, 2025

The Lincoln County School District board voted 4-0 Tuesday night to appoint Lincoln City councilor Mitch Parsons to fill the Zone 1 position left vacant by Megan Cawley’s resignation in November. Parsons was the lone applicant for the unpaid, volunteer position and was immediately sworn in. Zone 1 includes the north county voting precincts of Delake, Oceanlake, Sunset West,

Gerald “Jerry” Wedekind, Ten Mile/Vancouver

January 16, 2025

Gerald “Jerry” S. Wedekind Jan. 19, 1944 – June 5, 2024 It is with heavy hearts that we announce the passing of our dad, Jerry “Sparky” Wedekind who died peacefully in his sleep June 5, 2024, in Vancouver, Wash. following a slow decline with dementia/Alzheimers disease. Thankfully he remained on the happy side of this sad disease. He was