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• Police Reports

  Arrest Log July 11-15

  This log shows the arrests made from July 11-15 by the Lincoln County Sheriff's Office and Newport Police Department.

  13 hours ago
• Obituaries

  Shirley Ann Billman August 15, 1934 - July 11, 2019

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  18 hours ago
• Sports

  Hole-in-one could yield new Honda

  There’s still time to register for the 10th annual Kids Zone Classic Charity Golf Tournament on Saturday, July 20, at Chinook Winds Golf Resort in Lincoln City, where a skillful drive could score a brand new vehicle.

  5 days ago
• Sports

  Top soccer squads slate big shoot-out

  Top prep soccer teams from around Oregon and Idaho will converge on Newport High School next week for a mid-summer shootout.

  5 days ago
• Police Reports

  Arrest Log, July 10-11

  Arrests made by the Lincoln County Sheriff's Office and Newport Police Department, July 10-11.

  5 days ago
• Opinion

  Messin’ with the news

  I may not be as old as television, but I’m at least a decade older than Seattle-area broadcast television. I don’t remember when we actually got our first TV, and I have no idea about how it is that we could have afforded one — Mom was a single parent; Grandma lived with us, and she liked the telly. Grandma regularly watched the Gillette “Blue Blades”-sponsored Saturday Night Fights, but her favorite program was wrestling. Her favorite: The Masked Marvel.

  5 days ago
• Opinion

  Fair Democrats

  I heard that some visitors to the Lincoln County Fair booth recently sponsored by the local Democrats were deeply offended by a dummy child in a cage, sleeping under an aluminum foil blanket. As a local Democrat myself, I am shocked and offended, too. I am shocked at the reality of our current child separation policy. That policy is the true offense. To those that didn’t enjoy seeing this pale imitation, I can only say, I wish you were shocked by what lies behind it.

  5 days ago
• Opinion

  How to repair the broken system

  I attended one of this year's community forums on immigration. I appreciate the work done to bring the forums to our cities and found the sessions highly interesting. As you would expect for Oregon, the overall emphasis was one of "we love our immigrants," and at least in the session I attended, no difficult questions of a larger picture were addressed.

  5 days ago