A raucous and contentious Waldport city council meeting Thursday evening led to sheriff’s deputies citing ex-mayor Heide Lambert for disorderly conduct after she refused to leave a chair normally reserved for the city’s top elected official.
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From Kernville to Rose Lodge to Taft, new museum exhibit tells stories of Lincoln City area’s first post offices
By LORI TOBIAS/Oregon ArtsWatch LINCOLN CITY — The letters came from as far as China and as near as a five-minute-drive away, arriving at post offices often established before […]
Newport’s Nye Beach paid parking plan not ready for prime time, so city council delays a year
The expansion of Newport’s paid parking program to the Nye Beach district will come later than expected after the city council agreed Monday to delay the rollout a year.
Number of farms and farm workers in Lincoln County continues to shrink as costs rise, owners grow older
Earning a living farming on the Oregon coast is difficult, as evidenced by the fast-shrinking number of farms and farmworkers in Lincoln County and the northwest coast by the United States Department of Agriculture.
Iconic tree at entrance to Yaquina Bay state park may come down for safety reasons
The well-known Sitka spruce tree at a state park overlooking Yaquina Bay is about to get a trim or a big farewell.
Anti-Trump protestors line streets in Newport, Yachats and Lincoln City, adding voice to Oregon, national demonstrations
By SHAYLA ESCUDERO and CHERYL ROMANO/LINCOLN CHRONICLE Telma Pombrol’s family fled from authoritarian regimes in Cuba and Venezuela. She’s vowing not to do that again. That’s why the Toledo […]
Waldport council votes 6-0 to remove city’s mayor after just three months over her conflicts with staff
The Waldport city council voted unanimously last week to remove newly-elected mayor Heide Lambert from office for violating the city charter after first asking for her resignation during a special meeting.
Former Toledo clerk pleads guilty to taking more than $13,400 from utility accounts and employee union
By SHAYLA ESCUDERO/Lincoln Chronicle NEWPORT – A former city of Toledo utility clerk pleaded guilty Friday in Lincoln County circuit court to embezzling over $4,000 from utility customers to […]
Depoe Bay trio and Tradewinds Charter owners are honored as Oregon’s small business people of the year
Tadd Mick and his two partners at Tradewinds Charters in Depoe Bay are being recognized as Oregon’s Small Business Persons of the year by the U.S. Small Business Administration.
Yachats Fire board trying to determine if it should take over South Lincoln’s ambulance service
By GARRET JAROS/Lincoln Chronicle YACHATS – Whether the Yachats area will continue to have its own designated ambulance service is at the crux of discussions among the Yachats Rural […]