Quinton Smith
Quinton Smith founded Lincoln Chronicle, formerly called YachatsNews, after a 40-year career as a reporter and editor for United Press International and three Oregon newspapers. He worked in various editing positions at The Oregonian from 1984 to 2008 where he led a reporting team that won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News.
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The imminent departure of two Rite Aid pharmacies in Newport and Lincoln City has added some urgency to potential plans by Samaritan Health Services to open its second pharmacy in Lincoln County. -
Lincoln County’s presiding judge ruled Thursday that the Waldport city council had to reinstate Heide Lambert as mayor until there is time to decide whether her removal last month was legal. -
Months of back-and-forth public conflict between Lincoln County’s district attorney, a commissioner and the county’s attorney has hit a new level with accusations of corruption by one side and calls for a state investigation by the other. -
One week after she was removed as Waldport’s mayor, Lincoln County Sheriff’s deputies cited Heide Lambert for disorderly conduct Thursday when she came to a city council meeting and refused to leave the seat normally occupied by the city’s top elected official. -
Mother of man shot by police at remote Five Rivers farm notifies agencies she plans to sue for wrongful death -
A 2½-year-old boy missing since Saturday from his parents’ property along the Siletz River appears to have last been at the water’s edge before he disappeared, -
Boats and divers from the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office and four other departments combed the Siletz River on Monday looking for a 2½-year-old boy missing since Saturday. -
More than 100 search and rescue personnel four counties were racing against time Sunday to find a 2½-year-old boy missing from property along the Siletz River since Saturday afternoon. -
The central Oregon coast is infused with federal money, has branches of many federal agencies and is home to its hundreds of its employees. -
A 26-year-old man killed by police on a remote Five Rivers farm during a December manhunt shot at an Oregon State Police trooper after mistakenly thinking the officer was the man who had killed his friend hours earlier.
