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Mayfly Festival returns to Mingus Park with live music and hands-on activities addition to a free family friendly day filled with music, food, and fun, the fest is a great chance to learn more about how crucial waterways effect all of our lives here on the South Coast. “That’s the message of the whole
BY NATE SCHWARTZ Editor
The Coos Watershed Association’s (CoosWA) biggest event of the year, the Mayfly Festival, returns to Mingus Park on May 17, 2025. In
festival, is that we live in a watershed and not many people know that,” said Alexa Carleton, Outreach Program
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Reedsport comes together to celebrate BubsFest with help from Make-A-Wish BY NATE SCHWARTZ Editor
April 29 marked World Wish Day, an annual celebration of the first Make-A-Wish ever granted by the organization, but in Reedsport it went by a different name this year: BubsFest. Local teen Brian ‘Bubs’ Reynolds could have wished for anything, but he chose to turn his special day into one the whole community
could celebrate with him. To that end Make-A-Wish, alongside over 25 local businesses and community organizations, came together to put on a parade and carnival that could be enjoyed by the whole City
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Legislation introduced to permanently protect the Pacific, Atlantic Oceans from offshore drilling BY JEREMY C. RUARK Country Media, Inc.
U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley are co-sponsoring two bills that would permanently protect the Pacific and Atlantic oceans from the environmental and economic costs of fossil fuel drilling off our coastal shores. Merkley also led a bill to prohibit drilling in the Arctic, which Wyden also co-sponsored. “The U.S. simply does not need to drill in the coastal waters of the Pacific. We have more than enough clean energy resources without putting Oregon’s outdoor recreation and seafood industries at risk,” Wyden said. “These bills are all about looking out for small businesses that depend on tourism and the fishing industry, rather
than capitulating to the ‘oiligarchs’ whose only goal is to fatten their wallets, no matter the environmental and economic toil it could bring to our shores.” “Offshore drilling guarantees future oil spills with devastating consequences: from oiled beaches to catastrophic damage to tourism, commercial sport fishing, and ocean ecosystems,” Merkley said. “Trump’s Dirty Energy First strategy would see his administration expand offshore drilling—all to enrich billionaire corporate polluters—but Senator Wyden and I are leading the charge to protect the Oregon Coast and beyond from dangerous offshore oil and gas drilling.”
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