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Festival fun in Newport

NEWPORT — Visitors to the area filled most available lodging last weekend as the 43rd annual Newport Seafood and Wine Festival got underway Thursday evening, Feb. 20. And indications are that this year’s festival certainly met its goal of attracting visitors in the off-season.

Master of disaster packing his bags

LINCOLN CITY — The world we know looks different to Captain Jim Kusz, the firefighter who became an expert on survival and the acknowledged “Master of Disaster” in catastrophe-prone Lincoln County. Festive aerial lanterns are “flying fire bombs” to Kusz, who engineered legislation to ban them statewide. He can’t enter a room without looking for potential ignition sources next to the space heater. Where others see beauty in a storm-driven ocean wave, Kusz sees a pitiless sneaker poised to snatch the unwary.

Behind the faces of Lincoln County's homeless: Part II

Buoy tender in Depoe Bay

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Hazel S. (Pankey) Dowell November 8,1935 - January 31, 2020

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Richard "Dick" Foley December 2019

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James Hawley 1937-2020

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Nina Lee Trammell May 31, 1941 – February 14, 2020

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Gary L. Heimsoth (Butch), August 30, 1945 - January 29, 2020

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Irene E. Johnson, 92

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4th Annual Crab Blessing

Families, fishermen and community members gathered at the North Jetty look-out at Yaquina Bay State Park on Friday, Jan. 4 for the 4th Annual Crab Blessing (Photos by Shelby Wolfe)

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