Volunteers will gather at 8:45 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 24 at the Overleaf Lodge to participate in the annual work party to eradicate ivy along the 804 Trail. The event is organized by the Yachats Trails Committee and sponsored by the Overleaf Lodge and Fireside Motel. Event organizer Wally Orchard said most of the effort will […]
Archives for August 2019
Yachats Big Band holds fundraiser Saturday, Aug. 24 for Little Log Church
The Yachats Big Band is holding its second summer performance and benefit dance for the Little Log Church and Museum from 7-9 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 24 at the Yachats Commons. Friends of the Little Log Church and Museum are raising funds for a replacement and restoration of the building. The popular Yachats Big Band plays […]
Feds award $12.5 million to continue building earthquake warning system, including Oregon coast
The U.S. Geological Survey announced Monday it had awarded $12.5 million to the University of Oregon and six other universities to continue setting up an earthquake early-warning system along the West Coast. The UO’s share of $1.6 million will primarily be used to finish placing seismometers along the central and southern Oregon coasts, said […]
Analytics Data Snapshot – August 25, 2019
Google Analytics data for YachatsNews.com over a one-month period appears below. The peaks tend to occur weekly when MailChimp delivers the email bulletins automatically on Friday mornings. Stories about a stranded humpback whale may have contributed to the peak on August 15 (997 users.) Considering that the 2010 Census shows the year-round population at 690 […]
Wisconsin storyteller performs Friday in Yachats
A story teller will perform at 10:30 a.m. Friday, Aug. 23 at the Yachats Library as the culmination of a seven-week summer reading program for children. But the performance by Tracy Chipman, a former Oregon storyteller now living in Wisconsin, is appropriate and open to all ages, said librarian Janet Rackleff. Participants in the library’s […]
Humpback whale euthanized after 30 hours on Waldport beach was healthy before stranding, necropsy shows
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com A young humpback whale euthanized Thursday after stranding itself on the beach for 30 hours was a healthy male with no apparent injuries or wounds, according to preliminary necropsy results. The whale’s layer of blubber was good condition, Michael Milstein, the Portland-based spokesman for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, said […]
Expect another year of poor Chinook fishing, low limits due to continued poor ocean conditions
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com There will be more fishing than catching of salmon this season on coastal streams in Lincoln County. Salmon returns – both Chinook and coho – should be better than last year. But runs are still depressed because of years of poor ocean conditions that are now only starting to improve. Low salmon […]
Yachats manager says commissions should start counting visitors to defend spending decisions
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com Yachats city manager Shannon Beaucaire is urging commissions that oversee public facilities to begin quantifying how many visitors use them to help fend off possible challenges to how the city spends lodging taxes. She made the suggestion Wednesday during a presentation on transient lodging taxes to the city Finance Committee. Beaucaire wants […]
City commission suggests changes in “Clean Up” event — and surprised at its $6,855 cost
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com Members of the city’s Public Works and Streets Commission won’t recommend that Yachats quit sponsoring its three-day “Clean Up” event each June. But they expressed surprise Tuesday that what began as a shredding event years ago is now a free-for-all trash-dumping service that cost the city $6,855 this year. “That kind […]
Lincoln County moves deeper into vacation rental issues, including possibility of a license limit
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com Lincoln County commissioners are looking into stricter regulation of vacation rentals – including the possibility of limiting the number of licenses. Commissioners authorized their staff last week to spend the next four months digging deeper into “best practices” of regulating vacation rentals, mapping the location of existing licensed rentals, trying […]