Oregon Parks and Recreation Department will host “Yozakura,” night viewing of the Akebono cherry blossoms, March 16 through April 6 in the North Mall at State Capitol State Park.
Parks staff will illuminate the cherry blossoms with Japanese lanterns and lights nightly 6-9 p.m. Visitors may bring blankets, camping chairs or an evening picnic to enjoy under the canopy of the illuminated trees.
The lanterns and lights create a striking and beautiful scene inside the park at night.
The hospital auxiliaries in Newport and Lincoln City are hosting fundraising scrubs sales in cooperation with CareWear Uniforms during the first week of April.
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Thirty five hundred trout found their way to a new home this morning when Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) personnel delivered the slippery rainbows into Devils Lake at Regatta Park in Lincoln City.
Remediation of contaminated land can be a time and money consuming process that may, essentially, destroy the value of a parcel of land and threaten the worth of neighboring property-depending on the type of contamination present and whether there is a threat of it spreading via ground water or runoff.
Thanks to a grant that Lincoln City applied for and received a few years ago, the city has partnered with environmental consultants from Maul Foster & Longi and Akana.
Together with oversite from Economic Development and Urban Renewal Director Alison Robertson and Economic Development Project manager Seth Lenaerts, the BAC hopes to help identify heretofore unmarked properties that could benefit from analysis of their condition.
Due to long-standing challenges with provider staffing, Adventist Health has announced the closure of its medical offices in Sheridan, Welches and Lincoln City.
These closures are due to the years-long efforts and difficulty recruiting qualified providers in these rural communities. “We have faced significant challenges with not only recruiting but retaining providers in these areas, even working with national and renown recruiting firms with a high track record of success have not helped the situation,” said Eric Swanson, President of Adventist Health Tillamook.
The clinic in Lincoln City will close on April 12, Hoodland in Welches on April 1, and Sheridan on March 17.
Beginning Monday, Feb. 26, and continuing for approximately three weeks, underground utility work near Samaritan North Lincoln Hospital in Lincoln City will create traffic delays. Patients with appointments at the hospital are asked to allow extra time.
House Bill 4147, would allow automated stop arm cameras to be installed on school buses. On Wednesday, February 14, 2024, the House Education Committee passed the legislation. Today, it was passed with 49 votes in the Oregon House of Representatives and now heads to the Senate.
In an exciting back and forth 3A playoff match between the Taft Tigers boy's Varsity basketball squad and Amity High Warriors the contest settled into a tie at the end of four quarters.
Ferren has a long history of nursing and health care leadership. She started her career in
bedside nursing at Legacy Oregon Burn Center and quickly advanced into a variety of leadership roles at Legacy Emanuel Hospital, later becoming Chief Nursing Officer and Chief Quality Officer at Willamette Valley Medical Center in McMinnville. Most recently, she served Western Arizona Regional Medical Center in Bullhead City as their Chief Nursing Officer. Ferren was raised in Oregon and has family on the Oregon coast, including a sister who also works with Samaritan Health Services.
