Tag: Seaside

Retired chaplain opens firearm and gun repair store in Seaside

SEASIDE — Bryan McKelvey looked at opening a firearms and gun repair store as a way to stay busy in retirement. The former senior chaplain at the Washington County Sheriff’s Office had a store in Jewell before expanding with Nehalem Valley Firearms on S. Roosevelt Drive in Seaside in June. Guns James Green, Shoana McKelvey […]

Seaside resorts flourished in Rockport, Aransas Pass in 1890s

In the 1890s, a trip to the seaside was a grand occasion, and towns around the Coastal Bend built showcase hotels to attract the vacationers. Aransas Hotel in Rockport Col. John H. Traylor built the Aransas Hotel on the Rockport waterfront in 1889. Traylor was president of the Aransas Land Company, a group of Dallas […]

Seaside Public Library keeps 2 LGBTQ+ children’s books on its shelves

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Seaside Public Library is keeping two LGBTQ+ children’s books on its shelves despite backlash across the country. “And Tango Makes Three” is about two penguin dads raising a baby, and “When Aidan Became a Brother” is about a transgender boy coming into his own. Family living in hotel ‘really upset’ after […]