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Workers at Rogue Brewery showed up to work on Friday morning, November 14th to find out that the company had closed its operations. The company started in 1988 by Jack Joyce , Rogue’s founder and started out in Ashland, and then relocated their brewery to Newport. Rogue has been behind in their lease payments to the Port of Newport for the last year and owes the Port over $500,000, and is also behind in their property taxes. The port has been working with Rogue management ove

The Lincoln County Board of Commissioners took steps to maintain county operations and align its management structure in the wake of ongoing leadership transitions. Faced with the vacancy of the County Administrator position, the Board voted by 2 to 1 vote to continue to empower the current Board Chair, Claire Hall, to assume the administrator's responsibilities temporarily. This move is designed to ensure that continuity of operations occurs for the county during the recruit

On Friday October 31st,  Lincoln County Circuit Court Judge Amanda Benjamin sentenced 47-year-old Tyson Kay to 18 months in prison for killing Daisy, a 6-year-old black labrador retriever in the back with a shotgun full of birdshot. Daisy was the neighbor's dog, who was known by several neighbors and described as a happy, playful, and loving dog. Daisy was primarily an inside dog, but that day had gotten out, and she wandered to the neighbor's yard. Kay was found guilty of on