Major sections of Ocean View Drive in Yachats are scheduled for paving Thursday and Friday, Sept. 5-6. The paving is the next step in a years-long process of Lincoln […]
Ocean View Drive paving scheduled Thursday and Friday, Sept. 5-6
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Archives for August 2019
Yachats council to resume vacation rental discussion on Wednesday
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The Yachats City Council will resume its discussion – nearly it’s last – on how or if to revise portions of its vacation rental ordinance when it meets Wednesday, […]
Yachats, central Oregon coast businesses reap benefit of another strong tourist season
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QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com To spend a couple of hours in the Yachats Visitor Center is to glimpse a microcosm of summer tourism here. There’s a surfer dude and his girlfriend […]
Yachats code enforcement discontent flares up again; city manager offers plan to deal with it
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By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com Yachats City Manager Shannon Beaucaire plans to use a temporary employment agency to hire a part-time person to take care of a backlog of pressing issues […]
Commercial permits for matsutake mushroom harvesting go on sale Sept. 4
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Permits for commercial harvesting of matsutake mushrooms will be on sale from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 4, at the Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area Visitor Center, 855 […]
Legislature’s repeal of building ban in coastal tsunami zones brings out critics — and local support
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By ANDREW SELSKY/The Associated Press NEWPORT — With sunlight sparkling off surrounding Yaquina Bay, workers are putting up an ocean-studies building, smack in the middle of an area expected […]
Two-day conference by ‘Coastal Caucus’ legislators is testament to group’s growing influence
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By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com FLORENCE — When 600 people from across the state filed into a casino convention center here Wednesday, they were greeted with a colorful 64-page program, a […]
Planning Commission and Drift Inn owner continue back-and-forth over parking issues
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By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com The Yachats Planning Commission is giving the owner of a popular downtown restaurant and hotel complex two months to come up with detailed drawings to determine […]
Despite trauma of young whale’s death last week, live strandings are very unusual
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A young humpback whale euthanized last week near Waldport after stranding itself on the beach for more than a day was a healthy male with no apparent injuries or […]
Improving economy has put more Lincoln County youth back to work
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As the economy improved the past six years, more teenagers in Lincoln County and northwest Oregon are working. In 1996 the U.S. Census Bureau estimated there were 3,731 youth ages […]