It is a sunny Saturday at Cape Lookout on July 1. I am about to hike a 5-plus-mile section of the Oregon Coast I have never walked on before.

The Newport Trail Stewards, or NEWTS, was started by outdoor enthusiast Tomas Follet with the goal to create properly constructed trails in open spaces in and around Newport for use by bikers, hikers and runners.

Beach, Bacon and Brewfest will return to Lincoln City for its fifth year this Saturday, July 16, with charity cooking teams serving up bacon bites for all to enjoy and competing for ultimate bragging rights.

The boats are hauled on trailers to the shore at the corner of Cape Kiwanda Beach, in the shadow of the shoreline’s towering 240-foot sand dune.

Musicians, volunteers and the greater Lincoln City community are gearing up for the 10th anniversary of the Siletz Bay Music Festival, marking pianist Mei-Ting Sun’s 10th appearance at the event.

There are a few more days left to catch the “For the Seventh Generation” pano-mural project on the Lincoln City Cultural Center lawn. But there is more, so much more, than a half-mile of landscape paintings to enjoy this Saturday, July 16.

Free, fun and family-friendly music will fill Newport’s Literacy Park during the Newport Public Library Summer Music Series, starting with two musical acts this Saturday, July 16.

Make your mark on Toledo at the inaugural Chalk the Block event this Saturday, July 16, open to children, families, amateur and professional artists, organizations, businesses, classes and scout troops.

Get a feel for real, down-home Oregon when the Logsden Community Club celebrates its 60th anniversary with a community picnic in the “historic” clubhouse on Saturday, July 16.

Time to stretch those tendons. The annual Ocean’s Edge 5K, raced completely on sand in central Lincoln City, is set for Saturday, July 16.

Party on or near the beach and for sake of the ocean during the Cascade Head Biosphere Collaborative’s second annual Art on the Beach weekend, a three-day event running Saturday, July 16, through Monday, July 18.

Celebrate Oregon Coast surfing culture and history with Oregon's pioneer surfers, Agate Beach Surf Club members and current local surfers this Friday and Sunday, July 15 and 16.

Manzanita has a reputation. Tornadoes. Two of them. The first was October 2016 (months after I had hiked past on the Oregon Coast Trail) and the second in January 2020.

If you are anything like me, you know all the things you need to do to have a healthy body — but sometimes would rather go to the dentist than do them.

Join the Dmitri Matheny Group at the Lincoln City Cultural Center on Wednesday, July 13, as they celebrate the release of their new album, “Cascadia.”

There are few sounds that radiate as organically as the hustle and bustle of a farmers market, where people kneel to pet one another’s dogs, purchase hand-crafted pieces for their loved ones and sample succulent, locally-grown produce.

The Audubon Society of Lincoln City will lead bird walks at parks both old and new in Lincoln City this Friday, July 8, and in Newport on Saturday, July 9.

Hopefully, ferry services will be resumed this year for Oregon Coast Trail hikers seeking passage across Tillamook Bay.

 The Newport Performing Arts Center kicks off a new season of National Theatre Live this Friday, July 8, with an intense, deep revival of Rostand’s “Cyrano de Bergerac” starring James McAvoy.

A new show at the Newport Visual Arts Center features work by Emy Syrop, the recipient of the first art residency at Yaquina Head Outstanding Natural Area.