After a brief period with all of our deployed firefighters back home, Lincoln County has once again been called upon to assist Oregonians battling wildfires around the state. The Lincoln County Fire Defense Board has fulfilled requests for two separate Task Forces, which are deploying to two different wildfire incidents in Oregon. These deployments represent Lincoln County’s fifth and sixth mobilizations of the 2026 fire season. It is important to recognize that we are still

A recent DEQ sampling of Devils Lake found a microcystin level of 0.18 ug/L. Based on Oregon Health Authority’s 2026 pilot protocol, the Devils Lake Water Improvement District is placing recreational “precautions” on waterbodies that have a cyanobacterial blooms or low-level detections and will keep the waterbody at precaution status until the bloom dissipates. A value of 0.18 ug/L is considered safe for human recreation, but close to OHA’s pet safety value of 0.20 ug/L . Wh

The Lincoln County Board of Commissioners heard from legal counsel Brian Gardner and Lieutenant Josh McDowell, with the Lincoln County Sheriff's Office on a long-planned modernization of the Lincoln County Jail’s integrated security controls. Gardner told commissioners the current setup is a patchwork of different technologies from different years, requiring specialized coding to keep systems talking to each other. An RFP, (request for proposals) went out May 17 and went thr