Lincoln Chronicle

With arms that once flexed and reached to the sky, the limbs of the beloved Sitka spruce “muscle tree” at the entrance of Yaquina Bay State Park, now stop short.

Beginning July 1, electric-assisted bicycles will be allowed in most areas of Oregon state parks where regular bicycles currently are allowed, and on almost all wet-sand stretches of the state’s 363 miles of ocean beaches.

Anticipating a hot and dry Fourth of July, the Newport city council voted this week to ban personal fireworks this summer.

With national policy obviously out of the hands of local and state officials, tourism industry executives and others are now racing to figure out how widespread — and potentially damaging — any dramatic drop off of Canadian visitors could be.

The Waldport city council voted unanimously Tuesday to return mayor Heide Lambert to office and dismiss charges that she violated the city charter in March.

Eight months after Lincoln County commissioner Casey Miller was accused of bullying and creating a toxic work environment and told not to work in the courthouse, he now has an office – four blocks to the north.

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.

Work on two of the city’s most-watched building projects is proceeding steadily as workers take advantage of mostly fair spring weather.

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.

Thousands of gray whales now migrating north from Baja California are in such poor shape and so few calves were born this winter that researchers and others worry they may be witnessing another die-off.

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.