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 [...]

Greetings and welcome to Friday and welcome to April!   Thanks to all who could attend our April Board of Directors meeting yesterday, and thanks for all of the constructive feedback on our 2026 Economic Summit and our update to EDALC’s bi-annual organizational report.   Gregory shared some WAY exciting [...]