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Health Advisory Lifted At Nye Beach, Newport Working On The Issue

Oregon Health Authority (OHA) on June 12th lifted a public health advisory for contact with ocean water at Nye Beach, located in Lincoln County. The health authority issued the advisory June 9, after water samples showed higher-than-normal levels of fecal bacteria in ocean waters. Results from follow-up tests taken by the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) showed lower bacteria levels. Contact with the ocean water no longer poses a higher-than-normal risk. Offic

DA Says HR Director Bypassed Personnel Rules in Potential Firing of 19-Year Employee

Lincoln County Personnel Rules (July 17, 2024), p. 46, Article 11, “Leaves of Absences.” Lincoln County District Attorney Jenna Wallace is questioning Human Resources Director David Collier’s handling of Debbie Howard’s paid leave and possible firing. Howard works in the District Attorney’s Office as a senior legal secretary. She is a 19-year county employee, union president and union steward. DA Questions Leave Approval In a June 8 email (below) to Commissioners Walter Chuck

Toledo Approves Increase In Water Help Available

Toledo Council, Mayor Mix, City Manager Huebner and Lt. Dell'Olio The Toledo City Council approved a new contract with the Salvation Army to double the annual assistance available through the city’s H2O program, increasing the maximum benefit from $100 to $200 per eligible recipient. The council voted 5–0 at its June 3 meeting to authorize the city manager to sign the updated agreement, following an earlier presentation from the Salvation Army in late April on how the program

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[Coast Culture] A Long Way Back to the Coast: Livanna Maislen’s triumphant return to local theater for the upcoming production of 4000 Miles

For many performing artists who grow up on the Oregon Coast, the pathway to a successful career on the stage seems to lead away. Bigger cities. Bigger stages. More opportunity. The Oregon Coast becomes something you carry with you, not something you expect to return to in a professional capacity. But for Livanna Maislen, an actor, dancer, and yogi based in San Francisco after years of work in New York’s theater ecosystem, returning to the Oregon Coast to appear in the upcomin

Don Gomez

[Coast Culture] R.L. “Talley” Woodmark—Building Light, Legacy, and Community on the Oregon Coast

On the central Oregon Coast, art is no longer a scattered curiosity tucked between souvenir shops and fishing docks. Today it forms a collaborative ecosystem of galleries, artists, authors, and community spaces that draw visitors year-round—a transformation closely tied to Talley Woodmark. When Woodmark first arrived in Depoe Bay, few galleries existed and the artistic community lacked cohesion. What she found instead was potential: a small, supportive town capable of nurturi

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[Coast Culture] A Stage for “We the People”: What the Constitution Means to Me at the Newport Performing Arts Center

By Don Gomez In a day and age colored by divisiveness, with Americans hardly able to agree on economic policy, social issues, and the practices which define good government, the stage at the Newport Performing Arts Center has become a rare kind of public square. Here, in this small coastal town, far from the nation’s power centers, theatergoers are gathering not for a debate, but for a play— What the Constitution Means to Me , Heidi Schreck’s acclaimed reflection on our natio