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2022: so far, sew good

Feel like you need more fiber? Well, you’re in luck as Lincoln City’s Chessman Gallery presents “Fiber in the MIX” opening this Friday, Jan. 14.

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Take a shine to Cape Meares

Just a few miles west of Tillamook, the Cape Meares State Scenic Viewpoint and National Wildlife Refuge provides visitors with access to Oregon’s maritime history, nesting seabirds and temperate rainforest.

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Finding a new voice

For painter, photographer and educator Tracy McEwan, life was expression.

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At the peek of her talents

Help pass the time leading to the first days of spring by visiting the mixed-media fresco collection, “The Short Days of Winter” by Agnes Field, on display at the Newport Visual Arts Center.

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Time to broach the subject of buttons

Collectible buttons and French haute couture fashions will offer a trip into the past at the Fiber Arts Studio Gallery at the Lincoln City Cultural Center from Friday, Jan. 7, through Sunday, Feb. 20.

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Crab life with both hands

It’s the time of year where we make resolutions. I made a decision many years ago to stop doing that.

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Are you the writing type?

Many years ago, Sinclair Lewis was badgered into conducting a guest lecture to a group of aspiring writers at Wesleyan College. There, he grumpily asked students to raise their hands if they someday hoped to be writers.

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A little kelp here…

Did you know that there are amazing and mysterious underwater “forests” found just offshore along the Oregon Coast?

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A smart use of time

The Art Smart program of kids’ art classes will return to Lincoln City on Saturday, Jan. 15, open to young artists aged six to 13.

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Sometimes, burlesque is more

If we met on the street, you definitely wouldn’t think I looked like someone who would feel comfortable practicing the art of burlesque.

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Flower power

It is truly all about the flower at The Flower Pot. As Depoe Bay’s premier cannabis dispensary, this charming shop has always had a special place in the hearts of its customers.

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A growth industry

To flourish, according to the venerable Google dictionary, is to “grow or develop in a healthy or vigorous way, especially as the result of a particularly favorable environment.”

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Re-surf-ace into 2022

A quick dip into the Pacific, a dash and dive into a lake or a well-deserved post-race dunk: the coast offers an ocean of opportunity to start the new year with a bracing bit of cold water.

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Iconic

Toledo, a small mill town with a vibrant artistic side, hosts a monthly event where galleries and studios open their doors to the public and artists show their processes.

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Claus encounters

I was walking on the beach, minding my own business, when suddenly I ran into Santa and Mrs. Claus.

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Carpet Diem!

When I found out that I would learn how to make my very own rug on a loom for my next article, I was ecstatic.

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The Old Man and the Slug

Bomb cyclone. That’s what the local paper called the deluge that came Zilla-roaring off the Pacific a few weeks ago.

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Season’s tweetings

As the vivid blues and greens of the Oregon Coast summer transition into the monochrome of autumn, a brilliant yellow songbird with a black head clamps its feet onto a suet feeder, gobbles a morsel of “Berry Blast'' and flies away.

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This guy’s a natural

There’s still time to catch the stunning works of photographer Tim W. Moore, December’s featured artist at the Artist Studio Association’s Beachstone Gallery in Lincoln City.

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