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A working coastal dining room set for seafood
Owner profileSeaside

Behind the grill

Doug Wiese grew up on a Gearhart grill. His son Carnegie came home from New Zealand to take the chowder. Dooger’s is still on Columbia Street.

Cove Tales · Feb 18, 2026 · 3 min

Wooden shelves of books in a downtown Seaside shop
Owner profileSeaside

Where she should have been all her life

Karen Emmerling opened Beach Books in 2005. Twenty years on, the Gilbert District still has a literary living room.

Cove Tales · Jan 24, 2026 · 3 min

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