Greetings and welcome to the last Friday in May! Just a few more weeks and our fiscal year is wrapped up!   Let’s get right to it - here’s our weekly team update:   Partner Support/Community Support  AOB - Sarah talked with Charlie from Timbers about some event details, reached [...]

Greetings and welcome to Friday! Also, welcome to Memorial Day weekend, the official kickoff of the summer tourist season. No left turns on 101 from Thursday through Sunday!   Tonight is the Aquarium’s big kick-off event for their Amazon exhibit (the river, not the online shopping monopoly). May the crowd [...]

Greetings and welcome to Friday and the middle of May - only a few weeks until the summer season officially kicks off! This week’s update is a little shorter than usual - Leslie is off on vacation with her family and Paul and Marshall are in the Dalles yesterday and [...]

Greetings and welcome to Friday! This Tuesday, the whole team descended on the OCCC Newport campus to celebrate our Oregon Coast SBDC’s award as the 2026 Region 10 Center for Excellence and Innovation. We’re SO proud of the whole SBDC team and love collaborating with them! Paul and Paula chatted [...]

Greetings and welcome to Friday and to the first day of May!   This week, Local Ocean was featured on David Byrne’s (yes, THAT David - from the Talking Heads) Reasons to Be Cheerful global website: https://reasonstobecheerful.world/local-ocean-oregon-coast-seafood   This weekend is Loyalty Days in Newport (enjoy the parade or take [...]

Greetings and welcome to a sunny and warm Friday and what looks to be a gorgeous weekend!   A bit shorter update this week - Stacie has been out, attending the League of Oregon Cities conference in Pendleton with her husband Andrew. Next week, we’ll have the full band back [...]