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 [...]

Greetings and welcome to Friday!   We’ve got a shorter update this week. Paul was out Wednesday and Thursday (for Susan’s 60th birthday). Leslie was at the NADO conference (helping to deliver the session: "Advancing Regional Sectors Through Collaboration") and the Regards to Rural (R2R) conference (helping to deliver the [...]

Greetings and welcome to Friday!   As a reminder, the Youth Entrepreneurship Program pitch event (the third year!) will be on May 13th at Hatfield (the Gladys Valley auditorium). The link to the free tickets is below in the report - if you can, please make plans to attend to [...]