NEWPORT – The Newport News-Times, which has been publishing twice a week since 1993, will cut back to a one day a week on Friday, Feb. 10. The paper announced […]
Archives for January 2023
Oregon Coast CC plans to ask voters in May to approve $32 million bond for new workforce training center, other projects
NEWPORT – The Oregon Coast Community College board intends to ask Lincoln County voters in May to approve a $32 million bond to replace one expiring next year. The […]
Lincoln City man killed Thursday in Highway 18 crash
A 71-year-old Lincoln County man was killed Thursday, Jan. 19, when his small SUV collided head on with another vehicle on the Oregon Highway 18 bypass west of Dundee. Oregon […]
Oregon based newspaper group plans to open newsroom in Medford, following Mail Tribune’s shutdown
By ZACH DEMARS/The Bulletin On the heels of the closure of the century-old Medford Mail Tribune, EO Media Group announced Friday the company’s plans to open a new publication in […]
After boom of 2021-22, Oregon’s Dungeness crab fishermen now buffeted by low prices, short season and rough weather
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews If you buy a fresh Oregon Dungeness crab from the market this weekend, you’ll pay around $7.95 a pound – half what it cost this time […]
Pushed by new mayor, Yachats council begins discussion on how to address longstanding concerns over water supply
By KENNETH LIPP/YachatsNews YACHATS – Every city councilor for the past five years has agreed that Yachats needs to find a source of water for the lean summer months and […]
Bluegrass music will break out all around Florence next week as resurrected Winter Music Festival lights up town
By SUSAN PALMER/YachatsNews If you visit Florence at the end of January, be prepared for music, lots of it, breaking out spontaneously almost anywhere. That’s what happens when bluegrass […]
Both Lincoln County legislators optimistic about cooperation and issues as 2023 session begins in Salem
By KENNETH LIPP/YachatsNews Lincoln County’s legislators are optimistic about cooperation in Salem as they head to the Capitol to tackle ambitious goals for the 2023 session. Gov. Tina Kotek […]
King tides make last appearance of the season this weekend
The last in the three-month series of king tides returns to the Oregon coast this weekend. In Oregon, king tides occur three months in the winter and three times […]
Lincoln County lawmaker introduces legislation to address concerns about conditions at OHSU’s primate center
Deaths at the Oregon Health & Science University’s primate center in Beaverton have included rhesus macaques and other animals. File photo from 2008. (Oregon Health & Science University) By BEN […]