Saturday’s Unexpected Elephant sale benefits nonprofit resource agency

March 25, 2025

WALDPORT — Bargain-hunters can find furniture, artwork, tabletop goods, décor items and much more at Saturday’s Unexpected Elephant resale event. From 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., pre-owned items are up for sale at 3710 Crestline Drive, home of non-profit South Lincoln Resources. The proceeds all help sustain and maintain the organization’s two warehouses on Crestline, where community partner groups Waldport

Trump’s controversial logging orders: A win-win or recipe for continued conflict?

March 25, 2025

By TED SICKINGER/The Oregonian/OregonLive Earlier this month, President Donald Trump signed two executive orders aimed at ramping up logging on federal lands. The directives prompted polar and predictable reactions from timber industry advocates and environmental groups in Oregon. The former have been advocating for more aggressive “management” of federal forests for decades to increase log supplies for local mills and combat increasing wildfire

Seal Rock fire board, staff and volunteers issue strong support for chief after inflammatory email last month

March 25, 2025

By GARRET JAROS/YachatsNews SEAL ROCK – Seal Rock Fire District chief Will Ewing was met with a resounding show of support at the district’s board meeting last week in response to criticism leveled against him for an inflammatory email he wrote in February. “Chief always has the best interests of the district, volunteers, personnel and their families,” board president

NOTICE OF OTTER ROCK WATER DISTRICT BUDGET COMMITTEE MEETING

March 24, 2025

NOTICE OF OTTER ROCK WATER DISTRICT BUDGET COMMITTEE MEETING A public meeting of the Budget Committee of the Otter Rock Water District, Lincoln County, State of Oregon, to discuss the budget for the fiscal year July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2026, will be held online via Zoom. The Meeting will take place on April 3, 2025, at 6pm. See

Supreme Court denial effectively ends federal climate lawsuit brought in part by Eugene teenagers

March 24, 2025

By ALEX BAUMHARDT/Oregon Capital Chronicle The nation’s highest court declined to hear a petition that would have revived a landmark climate change lawsuit against the federal government, led by young Oregonians and their peers from across the country. The court’s denial ends 21 youths’ decade-long fight for a trial where they could hold the U.S. government accountable for accelerating global

Time to get newspapers off their addiction to taxpayer-funded legal notices

March 24, 2025

To the editor: At long last, via SB437 and HB3431, Oregon lawmakers are considering legislation that could end wasteful spending on public notices in newspapers. It’s appropriate that the 2025 Legislature should tackle the problem in this session, while priorities set at the very top this year target substance abuse. Newspapers, after all, are battling addiction. Owners have been pained

There will be a few contested races — and three money measures — in May 20 election after surge of late filings

March 24, 2025

By Lincoln Chronicle A surge of candidate filings late last week has resulted in a handful of contested races for positions on school, college and fire district boards in the May 20 election. Voters in school districts and special service districts elect board members in May of odd-numbered years not in the busy November election cycle where candidates can

Oregon wildlife officers are cracking down on hunters using thermal imaging cameras

March 23, 2025

By KRISTIAN FODEN-VENCIL/Oregon Public Broadcasting It’s morning in a hunting blind at the Santiam Valley Ranch, a private duck hunting club near Turner, just south of Salem. It’s cold and wet. But it’s not hunting season, so Mike Totey isn’t shooting. “I remember going out with my dad and uncles and family friends before I was even hunting,” says Totey, conservation

As Samaritan Health System financial losses mount, chief executive says merger, partnership or sale are on the table

March 23, 2025

By MIKE FRANCIS and NICK BUDNICK/The Lund Report Corvallis-based Samaritan Health Services has formally notified its bank that it likely violated its bond terms last year due to financial losses. While Samaritan chief executive officer Doug Boysen downplayed the notice in an interview with The Lund Report, he said the finances in Oregon health care appear untenable statewide and it’s his organization’s “duty” to

Rather than issue 17 available vacation rental licenses, Lincoln County commissioners vote to trim number in two zones

March 23, 2025

By QUINTON SMITH/Lincoln Chronicle Lincoln County commissioners have decided to decrease the number of vacation rental licenses allowed in two zones east of U.S. Highway 101 rather than issue the 17 currently available. But in doing so last week, commissioners voted unanimously to drop a years-old moratorium on processing new applications effective March 31. But with the lower limits