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Historical society has new executive director
The Lincoln County Historical Society (LCHS), which governs the Pacific Maritime Heritage Center on the Bayfront and the Burrows House Museum on Southwest Ninth Street in Newport, has a new executive director following Susan Tissot’s retirement. Jeffrey Syrop was hired by the board of directors and took over in May. Syrop is no stranger to Lincoln County museums, having spent the last seven years working to preserve and interpret the county’s history. He started as the curator for the LCHS in 2017 and went on...
Letter: Whose banning books at the library?
There is a peculiar trend in our local libraries: Half-empty shelves in the children’s non-fiction section. Several months ago I witnessed a library employee in the main branch pulling a massive amount of books from the shelves of this section and adding them to piles of hundreds of books on the children’s librarian’s desk. The predictable result came a month later when I could not locate middle school level material for Christopher Columbus, James Madison or Thomas Jefferson. In fact, the adult section had one book on Columbus, the Pulitzer prize 1943 Admiral of the Ocean Seas, on a shelf...
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