Voters in Central Oregon Coast Fire district will determine its direction and future with levy decision

May 1, 2025

By GARRET JAROS/Lincoln Chronicle WALDPORT – Six months ago voters overwhelmingly rejected a proposed tax increase to help cash-strapped Central Oregon Coast Fire & Rescue district make ends meet. The seeming message – make do with what you have. But fire district officials say it can no longer do that – not at current staffing and service levels and

Lincoln County School District seeks renewal of $73 million bond in May election to repair buildings, build three auditoriums

May 1, 2025

By SHAYLA ESCUDERO/Lincoln Chronicle Voters this month will decide the fate of a $73 million bond that aims to repair and upgrade infrastructure in buildings across the Lincoln County School District. Ballots were mailed Wednesday and are due back to the Lincoln County clerk’s office by 8 p.m. May 20. Voter pamphlets have also been mailed to households of

Lincoln County wraps up its second season of winter shelters for the homeless with 247 people served

May 1, 2025

By SHAYLA ESCUDERO/Lincoln Chronicle NEWPORT – The last night before Newport’s only shelter closed for the season, staff and volunteers looked at each other with tenderness. Spread out in a semicircle, the group shared what the past six months have meant to them. When one staff member looks at the people who come into the shelter, he sees his

Back under city’s direction, Waldport Wednesday Market opens this week with 35 vendors, music and food trucks

May 1, 2025

By GARRET JAROS/Lincoln Chronicle WALDPORT – The wind still has a bit of a bite but the sun is back to making regular appearances, trees are leafing, flowers are blooming and green thumbs are back to digging in the dirt – all of which signals the start of Waldport Wednesday Market. The market opens for the 2025 season on Wednesday

Oregon hospitals’ bleak financials leaves them vulnerable to tariffs, proposed Medicaid cuts

May 1, 2025

By AMELIA TEMPLETON/Oregon Public Broadcasting Two weeks ago, Providence chief executive officer Erik Wexler sent an email to the nonprofit health system’s staff describing a “perfect storm” threatening the organization’s financial stability. Since posting a loss of $1.4 billion in 2022, the Northwest health giant had been making strides toward seeing more patients, reducing its costs and becoming profitable again.

Annual Blessing of the Fleet activities begin at 9 a.m. Sunday along the Newport bayfront

May 1, 2025

By Oregon Coast TODAY A community ceremony honoring local fishermen and their families, the Blessing of the Fleet has been a Newport tradition since the 1950s. On Sunday, May 4, the Newport Fishermen’s Wives will again be sponsoring the full-day event, which includes the popular survival suit races and the Highliners Competition. The Blessing of the Fleet began as

5-year-old lawsuit that changed Oregon’s recreational immunity law reaches conclusion in Lincoln County circuit court

May 1, 2025

By SHAYLA ESCUDERO/Lincoln Chronicle NEWPORT – The lawsuit that triggered trail closures across the state and prompted a change in the interpretation of Oregon law, reached a conclusion Thursday – six years after a Newport woman broke her leg while using the city’s Ocean to Bay Trail. In her 2020 lawsuit against the city of Newport, Nicole Fields said

Port of Alsea NOTICE OF BUDGET HEARING

May 1, 2025

Yachats Rural Fire Protection District NOTICE OF BUDGET COMMITTEE MEETING

May 1, 2025

NOTICE OF BUDGET COMMITTEE MEETING Public meeting of the Budget Committee of the Yachats Rural Fire Protection District, Lincoln County, State of Oregon, to discuss the budget for the fiscal year July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2026, will be held at 2056 Hwy 101 N. Yachats, Oregon. The meeting will take place on May 12, 2025 at 1:30PM. The

Newport’s Loyalty Days celebration Friday and Saturday is one of the few left in the United States

May 1, 2025

By SAMANTHA SWINDLER/The Oregonian/OregonLive In many countries, the first of May is International Workers Day, a holiday commemorating the working class and the gains of the labor movement. But in the United States, this day is officially a federal holiday known as Loyalty Day — and Newport is one of the few cities that celebrates it. Newport’s long-standing annual