A series of events from the Cape Perpetua Collaborative aims to help people learn more about the area’s past, become involved with its present and help make plans the future.

Now in its 13th year, the Nye Beach Banner Project celebrates Nye Beach as the “Art Heart” of Newport, beautifies the coastal neighborhood and highlights the creative talents of community artists. 

An exhibit of works featuring the traditional Japanese folk art style of gyotaku, or fish printing, is now on display at OSU’s Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport.

After a little re-tuning of the program, the Newport Symphony Orchestra at the Ocean’s winter concert season continues this Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 6 and 7, at the Newport Performing Arts Center.

Molly, the Texas stray, makes a beeline towards a penguin-looking bird standing still at the wrack line, peering out into the frigid surf.

Do you know what an animagus is? Have you seen the Grim?

Tucked away in the middle of the Lincoln City Outlets is an alluring, beautiful and show-stopping shop, Local Faire.

Marilyn Monroe, Humphrey Bogart, Shirley MacLaine and Gloria Swanson: a glittering pantheon of Golden Age movie stars are coming to Lincoln City’s Bijou Theatre for a special matinée series beginning this Saturday, Oct. 30.

The colors of Autumn are everywhere right now. Not just in nature but also in the grocery stores and at local farm stands.

Friends of Cape Falcon Marine Reserve is partnering with a variety of other coastal organizations this fall and winter to offer a slate of interactive and engaging public programs, including opportunities to learn about and care for the Oregon Coast.

The history of Halloween dates back to the ancient Celts, who held festivals to celebrate the end of the harvest season during which they would dress in costumes to protect themselves against spirits, which they felt were too close for comfort this time of year.

The Celtic Music Series continues at the Lincoln City Cultural Center on Thursday, Nov. 4, with a performance by Lisa Lynne and Aryeh Frankfurter.

At the end of October, runners will gather in Newport to test themselves in a six-, 12- or 24-hour race, repeating a 2.4-mile loop as many times as they can at the Dia de los Muertos Endurance Run.

To help celebrate Dia de los Muertos, Lincoln City’s Driftwood Public Library is giving out free “nicho” craft kits.

Look out, boy billionaires — she's coming!  On a recent sunny morning in Lafayette Park, a very little girl of surely no more than six set up shop adjacent the children's play area as a purveyor of hot coffee and home-made chocolate chip cookies

The beach will be lively with locals and tourists alike this weekend as they gather to stare in awe at the colorful shapes flying high above them.

Many of the pumpkins have been picked, and plenty of people have perambulated through the corn maze at the Hydrangea Ranch in TIllamook.

The lovely and lively campus at Lakeview Senior Living in Lincoln City is the site for two upcoming Halloween events: a haunted scarecrow contest and a socially distant Trunk or Treat.

Always on the lookout for two-person games, I mentioned to my husband that our friend Jane Mulholland and her husband play cribbage, a good game for two.

Some compelling art has washed up on the lawns at the Lincoln City Cultural Center.