Seen from Seaside

CODA opened an opioid treatment clinic in Seaside in January. The Signal spoke to Alison Noice, CODA’s executive director, about how the clinic has adapted during the coronavirus pandemic.

The Seaside School District was among the volunteers, businesses and nonprofits at Project Homeless Connect on Tuesday, Jan. 28, at the Seaside Civic and Convention Center. Seaside High School…

Nothing can match the Oregon Coast for its natural majesty: especially the king tides that send water crashing to the shore and can move logs like toothpicks.

Six years ago, students and teachers created the Tillamook Head Gathering to encourage the arts at Seaside High School. In the past five years the event, which features alumni, community and s…

“Up in Arms: How the Bundy Family Hijacked Public Lands, Outfoxed the Federal Government, and Ignited America’s Patriot Militia Movement,” is a compelling account of the 41-day armed takeover …

Ever since Seaside School District officials called the relocation of Seaside schools “a matter of life and death,” the South County’s No. 1 priority became a new campus for students outside t…

What’s ahead for 2020? We asked community leaders to provide their take on the year ahead.

One of the most vexing things about the Harvey Weinstein case — and many of the “#MeToo” movement cases, against Bill Cosby, CBS exec Les Moonves, Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly and others — is why d…

Short-term rental enforcement is a fact of life for all communities on the North Coast.

“Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America,” is a story that cuts close to home.

David Ambrose is chairman of the Clatsop County Arts Council; Don Frank is co-chairman.

David Lum of Lum’s Auto Center is the co-founder of one of the region’s pre-eminent businesses. Lum’s is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. We spoke with Lum at his office above the s…

Seaside’s Mark Hansen, a Vietnam war veteran, presented plans for a granite memorial to be installed in Seltzer Park in Seaside’s Cove. The plaque will honor veterans who attended Seaside High…

Last year the Gearhart Fire Department’s annual fundraiser sought to raise funds to replace aging firefighter safety apparatus. In September, they did better than that: along with money raised…

One of the things I noticed as we climbed along the road at Portland’s Mount Tabor was a distinguished-looking gentleman standing proudly over the city.

Celebrating its 30th year, Duane Johnson Real Estate is a locally owned and globally connected real estate brokerage located in Cannon Beach. Established in 1990 by Johnson with the intent of …

When Carey Buerk tickles the ivories at the Seaside United Methodist Church at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 6, he’ll be continuing a six-year tradition of reaching out to fighting hunger in the community.

What is your company doing to promote people of color and minorities in your organization to really reflect the culture of your hotels and businesses?”

The fall of 2019 sees two major anniversaries in the history of Seaside and its championship Seagulls football teams.

Eight inductees will join those enshrined in Seaside High School’s Hall of Fame. The event takes place Saturday, Sept. 21, at 6 p.m., at the Seaside High School cafeteria.

The world is watching as the Oregon Coast prepares to meet one of the nation’s most perilous threats, a Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake and tsunami.

A novel set in Baker City? Now that would seem an unlikely setting for a literary endeavor. Or maybe the perfect one.

Perhaps the most unheralded local election is the one scheduled for Nov. 5 at the elementary and middle schools.

If there is a printed version of comfort food, it must be the phone book. What I really like most is the crisp pages, the smell of ground pulp, the thousands of names, tiny fonts and no intern…

By R.J. MARX

R.J. MARX

Clatsop County’s housing crisis reverberates all the way to the halls of Congress.

Author Debra Gwartney is coming to the South County this spring for a signing at Beach Books. Her “part history, part memoir,” “I Am a Stranger Here Myself” links diverse threads of her life i…

If you walk down the streets of Seaside, there’s one thing you don’t see much of.

Michael Skogg is one lucky surfer. He survived a potential attack by a great white shark, he reports, and he owes his survival to a device known as “Sharkbanz.”

The potential for a second coordinated care organization in Clatsop County could diminish the ability of some nonprofits to serve the needs of the community, Helping Hands Re-entry and Outreac…

If there’s one man who represents the spirit of Seaside, it’s Stubby Lyons. Lyons, a former teacher, championship-winning coach, volunteer and longtime member of the City Council is 84, living…

Where to build the Gearhart firehouse?

May is Oregon Wine Month!

The need is ever growing, Darren Gooch, executive director of the Food Bank said on a recent tour of the building in Seaside.

North Coast Family Fellowship celebrated Pastor Dan Dunn Day on April 7, a special gathering to celebrate the legacy of Dunn, and Patty, his wife of 54 years, and their work with the community…

Kerri Rosenblatt and Doug Forbes are the owners of Music 101 in Gearhart.

Firefighters are great at saving lives, but they’re not always as good at promoting on their own behalf.

Gearhart isn’t underwater, but new maps swathed in shades of blue delineate degrees of submersion.

Seaside’s surfers are upset about camera and drone operators at the Cove.

Amidst an abundance of quality Pacific Northwest fiction, Don Berry presents the most vivid naturalism: bringing to mind the scent of the woods, the hollow of a log or the whisper of a dream.

James Whitney Young was born in Portland 1941. He is an American astronomer who worked in the field of asteroid research. After nearly 47 years with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at their Tabl…

Seaside’s Neal Maine stopped in the Signal office with some words of warning. The naturalist, wildlife photographer and former science teacher at Seaside High School slipped an 8X10 photo from…

When Seaside’s Mary Blake read a remembrance of Tom Chatterton at the Seaside City Council this fall, newcomers may be unaware of the long history and contributions Chatterton made to the city…

The fire started Nov. 8, in Butte County near the northern California city of Paradise. Before its containment on Nov. 25, the fire had burned more than 153,000 acres, destroying almost 14,000…