By LYNNE TERRY/Oregon Capital Chronicle SALEM — Shemia Fagan ended her nearly three-year tenure as Oregon’s 28th secretary of state at midday Monday, less than two hours after her staff […]
Archives for May 2023
Oregon Shakespeare’s Nataki Garrett: ‘You kind of have to get out before you burn out’
Oregon Shakespeare Festival Artistic Director Nataki Garrett speaks at the OSF Gala at Ashland Springs Hotel in October. By HOLLY DILLEMUTH/Ashland.news It cannot be said definitively why Oregon Shakespeare Festival Nataki […]
OSU will help lead $30 million regional effort to help farmers and food-related businesses access new markets
By SEAN NEALON/OSU News Service CORVALLIS – Oregon State University has been selected to help lead a $30 million U.S. Department of Agriculture regional food business center that will support […]
Oregon Senate Republican walkout hits day 6 as one GOP senator files two workplace complaints
Democratic senators watch on Sunday, May 7, as a board shows 10 absences preventing a quorum. By JULIA SHUMWAY and BEN BOTKIN/Oregon Capital Chronicle SALEM — One Republican senator filed […]
Scary-looking creature that keeps washing ashore along the Oregon coast raises interest in lancetfish
By LAUREN McCARTHY/The New York Times For hundreds of years, a strange species of fish with long fanglike teeth that eats its own kind and spends most of its time […]
Presiding judge thanks Lincoln County jurors for their service
To the editor: Each week in Lincoln County, juries make decisions that change lives. They provide justice for victims and families, ensure that businesses honor their obligations, award damages to […]
Yachats council wants to interview candidate for interim city manager, hopes to hire Portland firm to find permanent one
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews YACHATS – The Yachats city council took more steps Thursday to deal with the impending departure of city manager Heide Lambert, agreeing to interview a candidate for […]
Waldport and Yachats kick off spring events by hosting hundreds of gravel road racers — and parties Saturday and Sunday
By CHERYL ROMANO/YachatsNews Stand back — a whale of a block party is about to surface Saturday in Waldport — and more action will cruise into Yachats the next […]
Perpetua group’s guided tidepool tours now open for registration
YACHATS – Get ready to sign up for the Cape Perpetua Collaborative’s popular tidepool tours when registration opens at noon Wednesday, May 10. The group’s Tidepool Ambassador Program is a […]
A bill allowing self-service gas anywhere in Oregon moves closer to passage in the Legislature after hearing this week
By LYNNE TERRY/Oregon Capital Chronicle SALEM — A bill that would allow Oregonians to pump their own gas anywhere in the state edged closer to passage this week with its […]