Additional Articles

• Sports

  Column: Let the playoff races begin

  We all know Aesop’s fable of the Tortoise and the Hare. The hare races out ahead of the tortoise, only to lose focus at the end and lose to the tortoise who had slowly kept racing and ultimately beat the overconfident hare. It’s not hyperbole to say that the race between those animals is the most important one of all time. It the story demonstrates the best way to handle a race. But while rewatching “The Office” for the billionth time, a new strategy came into play. Pam Beasley laid out her game plan for the “Michael Scott’s Dunder Mifflin Scranton Meredith Palmer Memorial Celebrity Rabies Awareness Pro-Am Fun Run Race for the Cure” in Season 4, when she came up with a solution to avoid being either the tortoise or the hare. Her plan was to start fast, run fast in the middle and end fast. Although her execution wasn’t there, I have yet to hear a better, simpler strategy to run a race. With the end of the regular season slowing coming to an end, the race towards the playoffs is starting to take shape.

  6 months ago
• Community

  The local impact of WIC

  The Oregon Health Authority’s recently released local WIC (Women, Infants and Children) data highlights the impact Lincoln County WIC had on the community in 2017. The WIC Program provides supplemental foods, health care referrals and nutrition education at no cost to low-income pregnant, breastfeeding and non-breastfeeding post-partum women, and to infants and children up to 5 years of age who are found to be at nutritional risk.

  6 months ago
• Community

  County Democrats to host candidates

  The Lincoln County Democrats will be hosting a Candidate Forum on Wednesday, April 25, the evening before ballots are mailed. Eleven candidates or surrogates are scheduled to attend to give their introductions and answer questions: Peter Wright, who is running for U.S. Congress, David Gomberg, for state representative, both Russell Baldwin and Thomas Branford, who are running for judge of Lincoln County District 17, and Virginia Demaris, Kim Herring, Doug Hunt, Betty Kamikawa and Kaety Jacobson, all of whom are running for county commissioner positions. Caddy McKeowan will send a surrogate to represent her candidacy for State House, District 9, as will Val Hoyle, who is a candidate for commissioner for the Bureau of Labor and Industries.

  6 months ago
• Community

  Free writing workshop at Newport Library

  Award-winning author Elena Passarello will teach a free workshop called “Writing the Collage Essay” on Wednesday, May 2, from 6:30 to 8:45 p.m. at the Newport Public Library. A collage essay uses vivid images and quick cuts to tell stories in artfully arranged fragments, rather than in one specific narrative line. “Inspired by visual art and film, collage storytelling is an inspiring way to supercharge your writing, and it’s surprisingly easy,” says Passarello.

  6 months ago
• Community

  Become a global family with AFS-USA

  Families in the Newport area can help build bridges of intercultural understanding by sharing their homes and daily life with exchange students. AFS is now looking for host families for high school exchange students coming from more than 90 countries in August and September.

  6 months ago
• Arts & Entertainment

  Casting call for Shakespeare play

  Red Octopus Theatre Company, along with Darcy Hogan (director) and Milo Graamans (musical director) will hold open auditions for William Shakespeare's “A Midsummer Night's Dream” on Saturday, May 5, at 2 p.m. at the Newport Performing Arts center. All roles are open. As a group of lovers escape into a forest of mischief and magic, the creatures of the night arise. What follows is a thrilling evening of enchantment, mayhem, and merriment. Hogan (responsible for 2015's wildly re-imagined version of “The Taming of the Shrew”) has infused Shakespeare's timeless words with movement and music, for a wild and whimsical adventure people won't soon forget.

  1 year ago
• Community

  Banquet & Balloon Auction is April 28

  Table reservations and tickets are now on sale for the Greater Newport Chamber of Commerce’s Banquet and Balloon Auction, presented by the News-Times. The event will be held at 6 p.m. on April 28 at the Best Western Agate Beach Inn. Dinner and entertainment is included in the ticket price, along with an opportunity to bid on hundreds of silent and live auction items. This year’s theme is “Take Me Out to the Ball Game,” and prizes will be awarded for the best baseball-inspired costumes.

  6 months ago
• Community

  Candidates’ Forum planned in Newport

  The League of Women Voters of Lincoln County (LWVLC) will host a Candidates’ Forum in Newport on Tuesday, April 24, in the community meeting room of Atonement Lutheran Church. Attendees are invited to arrive at 6:30 p.m. for a half hour “meet and greet” session with the participating candidates. The formal program will begin at 7 p.m. and will feature the candidates for county commissioner and circuit court judge and will be facilitated by Jean Cowan, president of LWVLC. Sheriff Curtis Landers will also be available to explain the proposed public safety levy, Measure 21-186, on the May ballot.

  6 months ago