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Celebrate Midsummer at Scandinavian Fest

If you are at all remotely Scandinavian, you might like to attend the 49th annual Scandinavian Midsummer Festival that takes place the third weekend in June every year in Astoria, Oregon. This year’s festival will happen Friday, June 17, through Sunday, June 19, at the Clatsop County Fairgrounds, 92937 Walluski Loop, four miles southeast of Astoria on […]

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Attractions

Artifacts Tell Stories at Columbia River Maritime Museum

As a former boating writer and avid sailor, I loved visiting the Columbia River Maritime Museum in Astoria, Oregon. I have heard many tales about how rough the river can get and how salts through the ages have navigated this mighty waterway. The Columbia River Maritime Museum specializes in collecting and exhibiting maritime artifacts from […]

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Outdoor Activities Things To Do

Get ready for Oregon sturgeon season 2015

Fishing guide Jon Ball of Gimme-A-Go Guide service in Sandy, Ore., shares some of his experience with us in this blog. Any way you look at it – winter is a good time to get ready, set, go for Columbia River sturgeon catching! White Sturgeon Jon explains that white sturgeon migrate up and down the […]

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Travel

Head for Oregon Waterways in the Late Summer, Early Fall

Sure, the days are a smidgen shorter and the nights are cooling off (mercifully). But there is still lots of glorious late summer and early fall weather ahead to enjoy Oregon’s 6,000 lakes, 112,000 miles of rivers and 363 miles of coastline. Of course, these Indian Summer days after Labor Day weekend and the start […]

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Travel

Discover Newport, Oregon – Part I

By Leslee Jaquette Before breakfast I strolled the docks at the Embarcadero Resort Hotel & Marina in Newport, Oregon. Enjoying a streak of unusually calm, sunny weather on the Pacific Coast, a burly, friendly guy gave me a conspiratorial smile as he stepped off his 23-foot Seaswirl, Wake My Day. His name was Dave Strom […]

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Events

Astoria-Warrenton Crab, Seafood & Wine Festival – April 25-27, 2014

Since starting the event in 1982, Oregon’s North Coast has celebrated its world-class bounty each year with the annual Astoria-Warrenton  Crab, Seafood & Wine Festival. Held Apr. 25-27, 2014, the festival attracts seafood lovers for its famous fresh-caught Oregon Dungeness crab dinner and also showcases producers, local micro-canneries and homegrown craft breweries with more than […]

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Northwest Events Travel

ASTORIA – GATEWAY TO THE COLUMBIA

BY LESLEE JAQUETTE Standing on the dock at Astoria, Oregon’s East Basin Marina, I ponder the mighty Columbia River and the magnitude of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. A familiar, distant barking disturbs my reverie. Turning toward the sound, I spot a sign on the pier, “Danger, Sea Lions on Dock.” Refocusing my eyes, I […]

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Northwest Events Oregon Travel

Astoria events feature breweries, poets gathering

Beer Boom on the Columbia River Buoy Beer will start production on a three-barrel pilot system with plans of increasing up to a 20-barrel system. The brewery will set up shop in early 2014 in the old New England Fish Company building on the Columbia River waterfront in Astoria. It will feature a full restaurant […]