56th Oregon Country Fair begins three-day run Friday in rural Lane County with thousands expected to attend

July 7, 2025

By TIFFANY ECKERT/KLCC News VENETA — Final preparations are underway for the 56th annual Oregon Country Fair starting Friday. Fair crews are hard at work, putting finishing touches on 260 craft booths and 17 stages speckled along a winding mile and a half of shady, accessible paths called “the eight,” because it’s vaguely shaped like a figure 8. Oregon

For the first time in 35 years, tourism marketing for Newport will be handled by an outside agency

July 7, 2025

By SHAYLA ESCUDERO/Lincoln Chronicle NEWPORT – The city of Newport’s tourism promotion is going in a new direction — breaking off a 35-year-long arrangement with the Newport Chamber of Commerce and awarding a $850,000 contract to a Dundee-based company. For the last three decades, the city has contracted with the chamber for its tourism promotion. Under the banner of

With Lincoln City Cultural Center thriving, executive director says it’s time for her to make a change

July 7, 2025

By QUINTON SMITH/Lincoln Chronicle The Lincoln City Cultural Center is in a good place. It’s $3.5 million plaza is awaiting its last installment. Programming is strong, with hundreds of events or exhibits taking place each year. And its staff stepped up when executive director Niki Price spent the last six months working half time for Rep. David Gomberg, D-Otis.

Lions, guns and meth: Inside the takedown of an roadside zoo on the southern Oregon coast

July 7, 2025

By JUSTIN HIGGENBOTTOM/Jefferson Public Radio Late at night, Amanda Zamora often heard a lion’s roar cut through the coastal breeze. The sound came from West Coast Game Park Safari, down the street. The roadside zoo billed itself as “America’s largest wild animal petting park.” As an animal lover, Zamora thought it was cool and eventually took a job at

Velella velella that wash ashore along the central Oregon coast stir memories for visiting photographer

July 6, 2025

By WINSTON SZETO/Oregon Public Broadcasting Photographer Robin Loznak and his wife, Carisa Cegavske, of Elkton are longtime fans of “The Lord of the Rings.” So when they made a nearly 60-mile trip to the Hobbit Trail south of Yachats in late June they enjoyed every step of the scenic path that winds through lush forest before opening up to

After six years, 32,000 boulders and $172 million, the Columbia River jetty rehab project is almost done

July 6, 2025

By HENRY BRANNAN/The Vancouver Columbian CLATSOP SPIT — For most of the past two years, Jesse Allen has worked 12 hours a day, seven days a week operating a crane to move sedan-sized boulders miles out into the mouth of the Columbia River. “You don’t want it to slip out and drop,” Allen said, sitting in the 240-ton crane’s

Oregon lawmakers send $100 million to Coos Bay channel dredging in preparation for shipping terminal

July 6, 2025

By KYRA BUCKLEY/Oregon Public Broadcasting The Port of Coos Bay is a small step closer to building a major international shipping terminal, which supporters say will create 2,500 permanent jobs on the south coast. Oregon lawmakers allocated $100 million to widen and deepen the channel so it’s accessible to cargo ships as part of its “Christmas tree” legislation that allocated money

Oregon State Police news release on Highway 101 July 4 fatalities in Coos County

July 5, 2025

COOS COUNTY – On Friday, July 4, 2025, Oregon State Police responded to a four-vehicle fatal crash in Coos County near Lakeside. The preliminary investigation indicated a beige Kia Optima, operated by Manual Samuel Starr (38) of Coos Bay, was traveling northbound when it crossed the centerline for unknown reasons. The Kia sideswiped a southbound black Toyota Corolla, operated by Kent

Thousands watch as red, white, blue and tie dyed La de da Parade walks, dances and rolls through Yachats

July 4, 2025

By GARRET JAROS/Lincoln Chronicle YACHATS – Nowhere in America is the spirit of Independence Day more on display than Yachats’ La de da Parade where unity and inclusion explode in a kaleidoscope of colors – red, white, blue, rainbow – and tie dye too. And nowhere in the parade’s ranks is the metaphor of America as a melting pot

Oregon lawmakers failed to find billions for roads. So now what happens and when?

July 4, 2025

By DIRK VANDERHART and BRYCE DOLE/Oregon Public Broadcasting It’s been nearly a week since Oregon Democrats’ road-funding hopes imploded, but the fallout from that failure is still hitting home. At the Oregon Department of Transportation, hundreds of workers were expected to begin learning this week that they might be laid off as soon as Monday. Cash-strapped cities and counties are scrambling to

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56th Oregon Country Fair begins three-day run Friday in rural Lane County with thousands expected to attend

For the first time in 35 years, tourism marketing for Newport will be handled by an outside agency

With Lincoln City Cultural Center thriving, executive director says it’s time for her to make a change

Lions, guns and meth: Inside the takedown of an roadside zoo on the southern Oregon coast

Velella velella that wash ashore along the central Oregon coast stir memories for visiting photographer

After six years, 32,000 boulders and $172 million, the Columbia River jetty rehab project is almost done

Oregon lawmakers send $100 million to Coos Bay channel dredging in preparation for shipping terminal

Oregon State Police news release on Highway 101 July 4 fatalities in Coos County

Thousands watch as red, white, blue and tie dyed La de da Parade walks, dances and rolls through Yachats

Oregon lawmakers failed to find billions for roads. So now what happens and when?

Letters from readers

Commissioner clarifies stance on Veterans Service levy on Nov. 4 ballot

Lincoln County ballot measure is a commitment to our veterans

$25,000 grant will help View the Future’s community conversations

Obituaries

Joe Chapman of Tenmile

Ruth R. Mock of Yachats — “Fiddlin Ruth”

Marie Jones of Newport

Civic Calendar

Port of Alsea commission special meeting

City of Yachats Parks & Commons Commission

Workshop meeting of Seal Rock and East Lincoln County fire district boards

Yachats Big Band monthly concert

Yachats Rural Fire Protection District board

Yachats Planning Commission monthly workshop meeting

Yachats Public Works & Streets Commission

Lincoln County School District board of directors

Waldport City Council

Lincoln Soil and Water Conservation District monthly board meeting

Public & Legal Notices

LEGAL NOTICE: Seal Rock Fire District and East Lincoln County Fire District

NOTICE TO INTERESTED PERSONS

A regular meeting of the Board of Directors of Central Lincoln PUD