It’s a world away from the ancient passage known as the Silk Road, but on the stretch of Highway 101 passing through Cloverdale, carpet dealer Mehmet Sahin is maintaining a tradition that can be traced back to that legendary Central Asian trade route.

Come travel down the Siletz River with six-year-old Orrice Brown, her family of five, travel trunks, cookware, washboards, livestock, a pet canary and a terrier named Clyde.

The building and its long-term displays are worth visiting all on their own, but that doesn’t stop the Pacific Maritime Heritage Center from hosting special exhibitions for community enjoyment.

For people that face challenges resulting from limb loss, limb differences or skeletal anomalies, the simple act of riding a wave can have a ripple effect that reaches many other parts of their lives.

I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream.

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.”