My children can be left alone in the car on mild days and will always be ridiculously happy to see me every single time we are reunited, even if I was only gone for five minutes. But with a vocabulary limited to “woof,” they’re a little dull in the conversation department. 

The Greater Newport Chamber of Commerce is providing a safe way to get a head start on your holiday gift list by hosting an online auction featuring more than 50 locally donated items, open for bidding from Monday through Saturday, Nov. 16 to 21.

In winter, extreme high tides, commonly called “King Tides,” occur when the moon’s orbit comes closest to the Earth, the Earth’s orbit is closest to the sun and the sun, moon and Earth are in alignment. These tidal events are also known as perigean spring tides.

Tillamook area nonprofit Food Roots is hosting the first virtual version of its popular Pie Night. Get your appetite primed and ready to choose one or more of the tasty local creations that will be auctioned off at Food Roots’ online local marketplace through Saturday, Nov. 21. 

As part of its continuing quest to raise awareness of historical and current conservation, research and stewardship on the Oregon Coast, the Cape Perpetua Collaborative presents the 8th Annual Cape Perpetua Land-Sea Symposium on Thursday, Nov. 19.

As far as artistic mediums go, few sound as fun as that used by Calisse Browne, the November featured artist at the Artists’ Studio Association’s Beachstone Gallery in Lincoln City.

The Oregon Chapter of the American Cetacean Society is offering the chance to get deep into whales this Saturday, Nov. 14, with a presentation by Alie Pérez of the Cascadia Research Collective (CRC).

Early train travel was not a smooth ride. Rough, sometimes uneven tracks over often unforgiving terrain meant that, down to the dinnerware, everything that needed to survive even a short trek needed to be built to last. 

During Toledo’s return to the First Weekend art event, the Yaquina River Museum of Art is debuting a three-month exhibition of 20 oil paintings by renowned Oregon artist the late Michael Gibbons, beginning on Saturday, Nov. 7.  

For many years, Toledo has shown its artistic side every month during the town’s First Weekend Art Celebration, an opportunity for members of the arts community to showcase their work and connect with the general public.

When Danelle Jones and her wife, HelenFey Maze, were finally allowed to return to the ruins of their home, destroyed by the Echo Mountain Fire in September, they tried to focus on the few positives they could find.

Porter was both the name of an 18th Century London working man and the dark brown beer that fueled the brains and muscles of the Industrial Revolution.

Long before people thought of the end of October as the time to dress their pets in “cute” costumes like hot dogs, and allow their children to collect a year's worth of sweets in one night, there were traditions that marked the end of warm days and bountiful harvests, and the beginning of the long, dark winter. 

I’d been in a creative slump for a while, staying home and peeking out the window every hour or so — not for my singing Samoan mailman, or the homeless guy that goes through my recycling for bottles and cans, but for the creaking Reaper himself — and not writing much at all.

Many community-sponsored Halloween trick-or-treating opportunities, like Lincoln City’s Spooky Spectacular event held at Taft Elementary School, were set to vanish this year due to COVID-19. 

As part of their overall goal to trick out the campus for Halloween, staff at Lakeview Senior Living hosted a scarecrow-making contest on Monday, Oct. 26.

When searching for a place to play outside, you probably look to see if there is water access, perhaps even a boat ramp. How big is it? Are there hiking trails? But the last thing you might think about is, what’s behind the name?

Now in its 12th year, Newport’s Nye Beach Banner Project invites artists to decorate double-sided canvas banners, which are then hung on light posts throughout the neighborhood, creating colorful displays from spring until fall.

When the clock struck midnight on April 17, 1851, Joseph Wilson and Portuguese immigrant Joseph Antoine stood atop the pitching and grinding Minot’s Ledge Lighthouse in Massachusetts.

When the Henton family moved to a house on Echo Mountain and set about making the property feel like home, they had no idea that in less than two years, those efforts would be burned away.