It was a nice cool first full day of spring on the Oregon coast yesterday. I wanted to share one of my favorite moments from our exploration of the rocky shore of Yaquina Head Outstanding Natural Area just south of the lighthouse. #OregonCoast #YaquinaHead #NewportOR #Oregon

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“We are pursuing further assurances that ICE will not construct any detention facility, temporary or permanent,”
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“ICE has left our community in a state of uncertainty,” Kaplan said. “We will remain actively engaged until ICE has made a decision, and we will only be satisfied when that decision is to make a permanent commitment not to establish a detention facility in Newport.”
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#ICE #NewportOR #Oregon #DHS
https://www.opb.org/article/2026/03/04/ice-freezes-newport-detention-center-plans/

“I am very excited to have a women-run #seafood business in this town,” said owner Samantha Wright of Lincoln City. “I think the #Newport bayfront needed another option from a different perspective. And not only being a woman but being a fishing wife and understanding that perspective.”
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The company, which opened with its first fish purchase in late September, now has 23 employees.
#NewportOR
https://lincolnchronicle.org/all-woman-newport-wholesale-seafood-buyer-jumps-into-coasts-just-opened-dungeness-crab-season/

#sunset more #newportOR