Waldport show returns for one day Saturday with 16 local artists

April 22, 2025

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 Community Center, they had no doubts. Buoyed by that success, the Waldport Artist Festival & Sale is back Saturday, April 26 for a spring edition with 16 vendors. From 10

Samaritan Health Services board selects new leader to replace Boysen

April 20, 2025

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, who has been with Samaritan in various capacities since 2007, replaces Doug Boysen, who is resigning after eight years. Cahill has a sociology degree from the University of Oregon, and

Proposal to ban boat motors on Siletz River brings out competing interests on what’s best for users, environment

April 20, 2025

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 – an issue that the Oregon Marine Board will wade into Thursday. The issue of banning motor on the Siletz is not new – the so-called “jet pump” motors were

Lincoln City’s top admnistrator resigns after three years in job

April 18, 2025

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 start the process of finding an interim city manager,” Mayor Susan Wahlke said at Monday’s city council meeting. Legarza, who has been the city manager since 2022, is leaving to

Newport woman killed after Highway 20 head-on collision Thursday

April 18, 2025

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 vehicle and then was hit by a second. Oregon State Police said Heather Maria Paz Hosey was driving east at 7:07 a.m. when her GMC Terrain crossed into the westbound

Gray whales migrating north are malnourished, stressed and without many newborns, foreshadowing another die-off

April 17, 2025

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 and others worry they may be witnessing another die-off. Researchers believe their poor condition is due to changing feeding conditions in the Arctic, which could mean the whales were already

Yachats council works to settle homeless shelter complaint, OKs new sheriff’s contract and to replace delineators

April 17, 2025

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 from replacing vandalized delineators along Ocean View Drive to mediating a complaint about a former resident of a homeless shelter. Council also tentatively approved extending contract-deputy services with the Lincoln

Noted OSU scientist and NOAA administrator tries to offer hope for oceans, humans during turbulent times

April 17, 2025

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 Center. First she showed a map the audience was accustomed to seeing – familiar shapes of land separated by blue oceans. Then, she displayed a second map – a blue

Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek fires head of troubled state public defense agency that’s in crisis

April 17, 2025

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 thousands of people charged with crimes who cannot afford a lawyer. “It is unacceptable that more than 4,000 defendants in Oregon do not have attorneys assigned,” Kotek said in a

Central Lincoln People’s Utility District LEGAL NOTICE OF BOARD VACANCY

April 17, 2025

LEGAL NOTICE OF BOARD VACANCY Due to a resignation, a vacancy has been declared for the Subdivision 2 board seat on the Central Lincoln People’s Utility District’s Board of Directors. Eligible candidates under ORS 261 are encouraged to submit letters of interest and/or resumes to fill the vacancy. This is normally an elected office; the current term of which expires