If there’s good holiday news in the economic world, it’s that Lincoln County’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate finally dropped to below 6 percent in November. The Oregon Employment Department reported […]
NEWPORT — A Cottage Grove man who killed his 20-year-old son in a drunken driving accident just north of Seal Rock in June 2020 was sentenced Monday to nearly 12 […]
Lincoln County Sheriff Curtis Landers, who started his law enforcement career 34 years ago as a records clerk, has been named sheriff of the year by the Oregon State Sheriff’s […]
NEWPORT – A 55-year-old man from Mill City drowned Friday when a 22-foot dory capsized near Nye Beach after it was struck by a breaking wave on a reef about a […]
Oregon State Police have charged a commercial fisherman from Hebo with cheating on his catch of Dungeness crab after a state biologist noticed that much of the catch he […]
WALDPORT – The city of Waldport has received state grants totaling $53,000 to help it determine its future housing needs and at the same time help update the city’s zoning […]
NEWPORT – Dr. Lesley Ogden, chief executive officer of Samaritan Health Services two hospitals in Lincoln County, has been named a 2021 “community star” by a national rural health […]
NEWPORT – The Oregon Community College Association has awarded Oregon Coast Community College president Birgitte Ryslinge its annual outstanding administrator award. The Howard Cherry Award honors contributions of community college […]
YACHATS – After a one-year break because of the coronavirus pandemic, the Pacific Coast Wind Ensemble is back for its annual holiday concerts in Yachats and Florence. The Yachats concert […]
WALDPORT – The state’s economic development agency has forgiven the city of Waldport $372,900 of a $525,000 loan to relocate a water line on the McKinley Slough bridge. The agency, […]
