A house in Seaside that sold for $5.4 million tops the list of the most expensive residential real estate sales on the northern Oregon coast in the past week.

In total, 39 residential real estate sales were recorded in the area during the past week, with an average price of $921,190. The average price per square foot was $519.

The prices in the list below concern real estate sales where the title was recorded during the week of May 13 even if the property may have been sold earlier.

EUGENE – Oregon football class of 2025 Quarterback Commit Akili Smith Jr. is set to compete in the Elite 11 finals. This elite quarterback event provides training and competition for the nation’s most dominant quarterbacks.   

The 2024 Elite 11 finals will feature 20 of the top quarterbacks in the 2025 graduating class. According to the Elite 11 website, these prospects will “receive advanced, one-on-one quarterback instruction in a highly competitive setting.” The event will also incorporate on-field drills, competition, classroom instruction, and off-field development.  

“Elite 11 alumni feature 28 of the past 32 current NFL starting quarterbacks and 16 of the past 17 quarterbacks who have hoisted the Heisman Trophy.”  

– elite11.com

The Elite 11 final roster was announced on Wednesday. The list featured student-athletes committed to USC, Georgia, Ohio State, Florida, and more. Four-star Oregon commit Smith Jr. is also on the roster.   

Following the announcement, Smith Jr. took to social media to share the announcement. The post reads, “Blessed and excited to compete!!”   

Smith Jr. is rated by the 247Sports composite as the No. 78 overall player in the class of 2025 and the No. 8 quarterback.   

The 6-foot-5, 215-pound signal-caller, son of legendary former Oregon Duck and former NFL first-round draft pick Akili Smith, committed to Oregon in July 2023.   

The Athletics’ Antonio Morales called Smith Jr. “a high-quality get for the Ducks.”  

Last season as a junior, Smith Jr. Had 148 completions for 2431 yards and 25 touchdowns. He averaged 202.6 yards per game during the season.   

Smith Jr. Will compete at the Elite 11 finals alongside the following prospects:   

The Elite 11 finals will take place June 18th-20th in Los Angeles, California. Fans can watch Smith Jr.’s performance and see updates online at elite11.com.

Oregon agricultural regulators are once again giving a boost to locally-owned slaughterhouses to build up local meat supply. On Wednesday, the Oregon Department of Agriculture announced a “substantial investment” of $8.2 million, intended to keep more meat local.

The funds will go to 14 Oregon-based meat processors that are either already inspected by the U.S. Department of Agriculture or will come under the state’s fledgling inspection program. That program came online in 2022 following a $9 million investment from the state Legislature after the USDA agreed to give the state Agriculture Department the ability to establish its own inspection program, so long as it met federal inspection requirements.

This time around, the state will distribute the money in the form of a grant for local processors to purchase new equipment and increase processing capacity.

Lisa Charpilloz Hanson, director of the Oregon Department of Agriculture, said the investment is a strategic move to address some of the limits processors and ranchers face.

“This is the second major investment the state is making in meat processing in Oregon. Our beef industry is a significant contributor to the national livestock supply chain, but much of the economic opportunity is lost because the processing is out of the state,” Charpilloz Hanson said in a statement.

Charpilloz Hanson also said the investment gives more options to ranchers and farmers when they’re looking for a processor, thereby strengthening the local food supply.

Before the Oregon state meat inspection program came online, ranchers and farmers relied on just 13 USDA inspected processors scattered across the state. A shortage of inspectors, especially at the peak of the pandemic, made it increasingly difficult for smaller to medium-sized ranchers to find a place for butchering livestock, said Casey Miller, owner of the Meating Place, a butcher shop and cafe in Hillsboro.

“There’s just not nearly enough inspected processors to really make the local food chain work. Right now, people are having to truck their animals all the way to Eastern Oregon or Idaho or southern Oregon or even farther to get them processed under inspection,” Miller said. “ODA’s program is really trying to simplify all those steps and get more meat producers under inspection within the state.”

Miller’s butcher shop was one of the first state inspected facilities. His business also just received $697,500 from the latest grants.He said the plan is to build a new slaughterhouse division to process animals for other meat producers under inspection. Which means that ranchers can then be able to sell it under their own label at restaurants, farmers markets or grocery stores.

“These funds are going a long way to taking the risk out of us jumping in to kind of fill this void,” Miller said.

ODA projects the state investment will lead to an additional 3.5 million pounds of locally sourced meat in communities throughout Oregon annually.