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STORY AND PHOTOS COURTESY RANDY CORRIGAN The author reminisces about adventures with his grandpa as he worked logging operations on the coast and beyond. Not a word to your mother about this,” Grandpa Charlie said to me as we walked across a log raft on the Willamette River at […]
In the early 1970s, minor league baseball had an interesting run on the Oregon Coast, but even a brash owner, good players, and free loot couldn’t bring the fans. Story by ERICK MERTZ Photos courtesy COOS HISTORY MUSEUM The history of baseball along the Oregon Coast is rich with notable […]
Story by Cheryl D. Wanner In 1788, Captain Robert Gray sailed his sloop, Lady Washington, into what is now Tillamook Bay and made the first recorded white contact with the indigenous people of the area. Gray wrote of friendly trade between his crew and the local inhabitants which took […]