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Stories in Lincoln County are supported in part by a grant from the Oregon Cultural Trust, investing in Oregon’s arts, humanities and heritage, and the Lincoln County Cultural Coalition. We also appreciate our content-sharing partnership with the independent nonprofit news organization Lincoln Chronicle.

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Hello, friends: Newport Symphony Orchestra opens 37th season with Beethoven, Frank, and Runestad

January 15, 2026Matthew Neil Andrews

NSO’s late September concerts featured a hearing-themed program revolving around Gabriela Lena Frank’s “Elegia Andina,” two by Ludwig van Beethoven – Oregon-born pianist Ben Kim performing the “Emperor” concerto and Willamette Master Chorus joining in for the “Choral Fantasy” – plus Jake Runestad and Todd Bass’s interpretation of LvB’s chilling and heroic “Heiligenstad Testament.”

Roger Dorband’s Eco Imagination

January 12, 2026Susan Grace Banyas

The lasting impact of the photographer, writer and environmental advocate who died in October 2025, and whose work and life are honored in an exhibit at Astoria's RiverSea Gallery through February 10.

At the Coos Bay Public Library, confronting a sinking feeling

January 9, 2026Amanda Waldroupe

The 61-year-old building is structurally unsound and the library may soon move. But after two failed bond measures, supporters ask where and how.

Remembering Ed Cameron, Newport artist, author, and unofficial Mayor of Nye Beach

January 6, 2026Lori Tobias

The 94-year-old was a fixture in the coastal community, a “bridge to the past” famous for his Bloomsday Celebrations, outrageous outfits, and storytelling.

Astoria Arts and Movement Center secures $90,000 in grants to restore ballroom in historic Odd Fellows building

December 15, 2025Lori Tobias

The ballroom in the 1923 building suffered water damage when the roof was lost during a series of storms in 2007.

Can do: Astoria’s Hanthorn Cannery Museum

November 30, 2025K.B. Dixon

A photographic tour: At what's left of the oldest fish-processing plant on the Columbia River, a museum tells the tale of long hours, arduous work, and millions of fish.

Best Christmas ever! North Bend’s Liberty Theatre completes 10-year-restoration just in time for holiday shows

November 25, 2025Lori Tobias

The Little Theatre on the Bay presents a double-header of Christmas plays, followed by its ‘Little Ole Christmas Opry,’ in the renovated 1924 theater.

In Newport, ‘The SpongeBob Musical’ at Porthole Players is a community — and family — affair

November 17, 2025Lori Tobias

The extravaganza received help from the Siletz Tribe and Oregon Coast Aquarium. “The county is all-in on this production,” says director Morgan Locklear.

In Astoria, a Forest of Native Voices

November 16, 2025Judith Altruda

Prompted by a U.S. stamp of his ancestor Chief Standing Bear, Cliff Taylor’s "Indigenous Visions" exhibit brings together Native artists and writers from across the Pacific Northwest.

Ten Fifteen Productions: The Astoria theater company that doesn’t shy from the controversial

November 6, 2025Lori Tobias

The theme of the community theater’s next season is “America the Beautiful?” And, yes, the question mark is intentional.

New Yachats Public Library could open in January

October 25, 2025Lincoln Chronicle

The new "wow factor" building increases the library’s size by half and is coming in on budget.

For Serena Dressel, becoming head of the Lincoln City Cultural Center is both a homecoming and a challenge

October 24, 2025Lori Tobias

Dressel, whose parents owned the old Bay House restaurant, says she has big shoes to fill succeeding Niki Price in the role.

Lincoln City Cosmography honors the natural world, as well as the memory of its designer, Robin Brailsford

October 17, 2025Lori Tobias

The LithoMosaic mandala, to be dedicated during a Nov. 1 open house, is the capstone of the Lincoln City Cultural Center’s plaza restoration project.

Work of 10 mural artists brightens once-drab concrete walls of Nye Beach’s staircase in Newport

October 8, 2025Lincoln Chronicle

The work, with the theme "All Things Newport," includes lighthouses, bridges, tsunami warning signs, and hummingbirds.

From Astoria with song: Minntah Haefker on the Oregon coast and beyond

October 7, 2025Lynn Darroch

A young singer travels between home and the wider world.

‘Ziller’s Quilt’ leads North Lincoln County Historical Museum director on treasure hunt into the past

September 16, 2025Lori Tobias

The quilt, made in the 1800s by a Black woman likely born into slavery, is the subject of a talk Thursday and a new exhibit at the museum.

Portland artist Licity Collins wins $74,000 Oregon Community Foundation Creative Heights grant for her opera about grief

September 15, 2025Lori Tobias

Collins says she drew on her experiences during residencies at the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology — including living with a noisy refrigerator — in writing "One Death in Seven Doorways."

Tillamook County Pioneer Museum: Bringing Tillamook to the world, from shipwrecks to service members, from research to a nature reserve

September 9, 2025Lori Tobias

The 90-year-old museum has an archive of more than 55,000 objects and 20,000 photos, as well as stewardship of the 200-acre Kilchis Point Reserve.

Digital nomad Nicole Elyse will recount her adventures abroad in a talk Saturday at the Newport Public Library

September 6, 2025Lori Tobias

From getting robbed at gunpoint in Colombia to relying on the kindness of strangers in Laos, the world traveler says the peripatetic life has been “a thousand times better than I expected.”

Siletz’s Nesika Illahee Pow-Wow is a chance to reconnect, remember, celebrate, and open tribal community to all

August 13, 2025Lincoln Chronicle

The annual event, held last week, is both an act of commemoration and resilience. "For me these steps aren’t just a dance, it’s reconnecting with Mother Earth, with water and air,” says one dancer.

Music is there to provide comfort for us: A conversation with Siletz Bay Music Festival artistic director Mei-Ting Sun

August 7, 2025Matthew Neil Andrews

The pianist, now in his first official year as AD, discussed this year’s festival, his history with the festival and with his predecessor Yaki Bergman, and why music is all about “sharing and enjoying.”

Toledo Art Walk: Hello and farewell

July 29, 2025Lori Tobias

The art-savvy town's 30th and final Art Walk will feature the work of the late Cherokee artist Joseph Calhoun, plus Newport artist Marion Moir and others.

‘In Her Wake’: Rebecca Hooper finds artistic renewal via her tapestry of an orca pair along the Coast Highway near Seal Rock

July 29, 2025Lori Tobias

A trip to Europe and a timely request inspire the fiber artist to dump the doormats and work large.

Once garbage, now art: Columbia Basin Basketry Guild transforms trash into baskets for Lincoln City Cultural Center show

July 17, 2025Lori Tobias

Guild members used dog food bags, plastic tabs, and other debris to weave vessels for the exhibit opening Friday.

Newport muralist Casey McEneny applies his talent — and paint — to Astoria Armory building

July 16, 2025Lincoln Chronicle

The Astoria Column, a Chinook salmon, and a pilot’s wheel are among coastal images gracing what is becoming a signature gateway to downtown Astoria.

Niki Price, who led the transformation of an old school into a thriving arts center, moves on

July 11, 2025Lori Tobias

After 14 years as the innovative executive director of the Lincoln City Cultural Center on the Oregon coast, Price will step down Aug. 31. A search is on for her successor.

At Florence children’s theater group C.R.O.W., family is a big part of the fun

July 6, 2025Lori Tobias

Children’s Repertory of Oregon Workshops — C.R.O.W. — offers low-cost classes in dance, musical theater, and performance — not to mention The Tutu Dads.

Waldport retiree finds new passion in creating ‘Retrieving Roadie,’ an animated film about finding and retrieving rescue dog

June 26, 2025Lincoln Chronicle

Craig Williams creates an award-winning short film about finding and adopting his dog, Buffy.

Postcards to the Future asks: ‘What would you want to share with the future about your life today?’

June 24, 2025Lori Tobias

The Lincoln County Historical Society project, to be exhibited over the July 4 holiday in Newport, has drawn correspondence from around the world.

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