Opinion

It’s not unusual for a patient to be scared of surgery or test results and what they might mean. Patients often come to surgeons when they’ve hit their most vulnerable point: they’re scared, s…

All that exists is created by our consciousness

My vision for Gearhart is more about its people and history than one project or another.

It’s hard to believe that another year is nearly complete. While 2021 measured the same span of 365 days, as most traditional years, it sure did seem like a very long year!

When I was young, I never thought much about becoming a nurse. I always wanted to be a National Park Ranger in Yellowstone National Park. After I completed a couple of years of college, I reth…

This year marks the 40th anniversary of Providence Seaside Hospital. But how did we get here? The Sisters of Providence have been part of providing health care on the North Coast for nearly 90 years.

Did you ever play organized team sports? Play a game of pick-up basketball or softball? Play cards with a partner? It’s fun to play; it’s fun to win; it’s even fun sometimes to lose.

A face mask is a simple thing, yet it’s one of the best tools we have to help protect one another from COVID-19.

And just like that, the calendar, once again, turns to Veterans Day.

You’ve probably heard or read the statistic by now: About one in eight females in the U.S. will be diagnosed with breast cancer during their lifetime. Whereas breast cancer in males is rarer a…

As a result of two people filing a court complaint regarding ballot title language, Gearhart voters have been robbed of our chance to vote on bond financing on this November’s ballot. The judg…

Gearhart mayor Paulina Cockrum asks, “A new fire station: If not now, when?”

I wrote this a couple of weeks ago, in anticipation of putting out a bond measure for the new fire/police station at the November election. The bond measure has been delayed until next year, d…

Friends, neighbors, colleagues and community members: Let’s celebrate successes and achievements to nourish and sustain ourselves in a time of renewed challenges.

The stunning photographic renditions of the Prom from 100 years ago owe their beauty not only to the intrepid photographers of the time, but to the man who helped them find a new life.

Swimming, rodeo, rugby — and a lifelong commitment to Native Americans and Indian heritage. All this from John Spence, a former Seaside lifeguard in the 1960s who shares the story of his remar…

In 1992, I became the principal of Cannon Beach Elementary School. During that first year, I discovered something that would come to change my career. I found a picture of the school in a closet.

I’m sitting here on the bay by the old Seaside High School, wondering what the proposed plan is for the property. As it sits, empty, run-down and sad-looking, I have memories of running my hea…

Mysterious, poisonous and beautiful nudibranchs are sliding around our coastal tide zones just waiting to be discovered. Two-hundred different species of nudibranchs call the Pacific Northwest…

Lance Lyons delivered these words in honor of his father, Raphael “Stubby” Lyons, at Broadway Field last Saturday.

Walking along the shoreline you might come across some of these guys. They are a species of salp called Salpa fusiformis.

Did you know opalescent squid are the most common squid off Oregon’s coast?

It’s time for the sweetest day of the year, National Donut Day. As Americans celebrate all the gooey goodness of donuts on June 4, they may not know that, unlike other fun holidays, Donut Day …