After months of improvising to offer virtual recreation options, the Lincoln City Community Center is welcoming the community back, IRL.

Celebrations for Latino Heritage Month will wrap up in Newport this Sunday, Oct. 11, with "Noche de Cuentos;" which translates as “A night of stories.”

One floor above the ZuhG Life Surf Shop in Lincoln City is the studio space where artist Megan Brieño gets creative.

Do your kids roll their eyes whenever you regale them with tales of what life was like before the smartphone?

When is the right time to start a business? For resilient business owners, Taj and Corrie Richardson of Output Records, Beth Towers of Towers Training and Dustin Russell of Dodd’s Coffee — the right time was during a global pandemic. And, spoiler alert: they are executing the challenge beautifully.

Whether you prefer a perfect pumpkin or are the type that brings home that slightly misshapen one that you didn’t want to be sad because it didn’t get picked, you have options galore for Halloween gourds this year at the Kilchis River Pumpkin Patch and Corn Maze.

The Lincoln City Cultural Center supports local culture not just by providing places for people to view art, but also places to create it.

That used to be just the name of a catchy popular song and innumerable spirited horses. That changed Wednesday morning, September 9, 2020. The Echo Mountain Fire, centered in the nearby settlement of Otis, hideously feeding on homes the way blood-thirsty Moloch devoured sacrificial babies, encroached on Lincoln City, turning the sky into poison tomato paste, and choking us with smoke and ash.

After about three miles walking south from Lincoln City along the side of Highway 101 you pass Highway 229 right before the Siletz River Bridge. On the east side is Siletz Bay National Wildlife Refuge.

When the Echo Mountain wildfire broke out east of Chinook Winds Casino Resort, owned and operated by the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians, the managers immediately stepped up to offer hotel rooms to people who were being evacuated and even losing their homes.

Located just south of Pacific City, this refuge covers 1,202 acres, and is the largest in Oregon’s Coastal Refuge Complex.

oup can provide comfort in the winter and a cool respite in the summer. It’s the go-to for people caring for friends and family who are under the weather. And for Jennifer (Jen) Lee Reed and Joseph (Jay) Arce, owners of the new J & J Soup Bowl in Toledo, it was an important ingredient in their relationship.

The Newport Symphony will hold its first performance of the season this Saturday, Sept. 26, offering an intimate online get-together with Music Director Adam Flatt and members of the Newport Symphony Element String Quartet.

COVID-19 hasn’t been easy for anybody. For the staff at Oregon Coast Community College, who had spent months upon months successfully working to get the college independently accredited, the pandemic hit right when they should have been celebrating a victory.

The annual Cruizin’ for Crab event, happening in Waldport on Saturday, Sept. 26, will be bittersweet this year.

In an area where periods of consistent rain can be counted not just in days and weeks but, occasionally, months, the Echo Mountain wildfire brought communities throughout north Lincoln County face to face with a shocking new reality.

It was nearly five years ago when I first experienced the power of the Pacific Ocean.

The Echo Mountain Fire has brought destruction and devastation to the communities of Otis and Rose Lodge, and chaos, smoke and uncertainty to the neighboring town of Lincoln City.

Some people just seem to have it all figured out. Take John Matylonek for example.

As I have said before, the Oregon Coast Trail is in flux.