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Scratchpad: We REALLY need the arts right now

The newspaper joins me in commending our colleague Lissa Brewer for her stewardship of Coast Weekend these past ...

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An enduring sense of place

Some of my earliest memories of visiting the Oregon Coast are with my dad’s mother, who we called ...

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Notes from the newsroom

They come ringing the doorbell and ask if we’re still here. Have we moved? Has the building sold ...

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Liberty Theatre in Astoria celebrates 100 years

On April 4, 1925, Astoria was emerging from a cloud of ash. Two and a half years earlier, ...

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Our Coast Magazine looks at relationships with the land

In Astoria, 1,200 miles of the Columbia River spill into the vast Pacific. From above, silver tributaries branch ...

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On Discovery Trail

To clear my head, I take drives. Sometimes nowhere, and lately in the mornings east on Highway 30 ...

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Alive in the Columbia River

“I believe everything has a soul,” the poet Mary Oliver writes in “Staying Alive,” an essay from the ...

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Making botanical art with seaweed

Seaweed, dried and pressed into lifelike shapes and muted green and yellow hues, covered a table at the ...

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An update on the Readers’ Choice Awards

As of this week, the readers will have chosen. The winners of Coast Weekend’s annual Readers’ Choice Awards ...

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Gyotaku fish printing with Duncan Berry

The octopus was a little thing, no bigger than the palm of my hand, as it lay on ...

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