Death can come after a long illness or completely out of the blue, but for loved ones left behind there is no such thing as perfectly prepared.

Newport’s Blessing of the Fleet returns this Saturday, May 15, continuing the community tradition of standing firmly behind its fishing fleet.

It’s a new chapter for the arts on the Central Coast. With the advent of vaccine rollouts and more flexible guidelines for small gatherings, organizations are ramping up ways to engage creatively with the public and are even putting some in-person gatherings on the calendar.

At Holistic Caring, we help patients and professionals bridge the gap between conventional and cannabis healthcare.

There are few things on the planet as cute as a baby seal and, for them, that’s bad news.

Picture yourself trapped in a room made to look and feel like a deserted island, an old-timey jail or a pirate ship. Then, imagine that, instead of using brawn, bribery or a blunderbuss to survive, you need to rely only on your brain.

I really was planning to take one or two weeks off from articles. After the hiatus, I would cover my two flowering beauty detours. But last week’s event brought a story that needs to be told.

Across the country, fans have been filling seats at sporting events or live performances with cardboard representations of themselves to try to make the empty seats a little less sad.

After a particularly trying year involving a global pandemic and devastating fires that burned through 2,500 acres, our community has done an exceptional job putting the pieces back together to rebuild.

The next big thing in the Oregon Coast art world has opened in Lincoln City, where it is drawing… tiny crowds?

Every spring, the light poles in Newport’s Nye Beach district become even brighter when they become home to original art banners, destined for auction in the fall.

For the past few weeks, the Mays family: Kali, Dayton, three-year old Madison and one-year old Mason, have been searching for pieces of glass in public places.

Plans for the Lincoln City Cultural Center Plaza, a central part of efforts to turn the old Delake School into a world-class event space and cultural hub, are moving into the public sphere.

The MidCoast Watersheds Council virtual community meeting on Thursday, May 6, will see Matthew Shepherd of The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation talk about what we can do to protect and restore pollinator populations.

Live music is starting to re-emerge, and the Lincoln City Cultural Center is ready with two great events: an album release concert by singer-songwriter Rebecca Conner on Friday, May 7, and a live or streamed concert by the Ben Rosenblum Trio on Sunday, May 16.

Every month, Toledo showcases the arts during First Weekend. This event is an opportunity for gallery goers to talk to local artists and connect on a personal level with their work.

I am sitting at home, looking at the new Oregon Coast Trail maps updated and released this spring. If you don’t take the ferry from Barview to Bayocean Spit, you have a long walk around Tillamook Bay.

The history of the science of whales, or “cetology,” is fascinating and richly layered. The Oregon Chapter of the American Cetacean Society will offer a glimpse into the field at its monthly speaker series meeting this Saturday, May 1.

There aren’t many places in our green state that you can throw a rock without hitting a tree. Even so, their importance means we can never have too many.

Walking on the beach at sundown on an unseasonably warm day in April, I was surprised to come upon an oddly dressed man digging in the sand for something that, judging on the fury with which his shovel flung sand, must have been very valuable. I stopped to chat and, when I asked what he was up to, I was treated to a strange tale…