By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com The city of Yachats stepped in Friday to formalize the process for operating the Yachats Farmers Market after efforts by two groups hoping to organize it […]
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Yachats council will begin discussing some sort of ban on single-use plastics
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com The Yachats City Council in May will begin working on an ordinance that could prohibit single-use plastic bags and possibly plastic containers in the city. Council members […]
Tempers flare in long running Yachats Brewing permit issue
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com The owner of Yachats Brewing and Farmstore says he plans to re-submit long-awaited plans to Lincoln County next week in order to get building permits for his […]
Yachats council wavers on forming business advisory committee
It may be awhile – if ever — before the Yachats City Council forms a special committee of business owners to help determine how to spend lodging taxes collected by […]
Yachats author’s ‘Saving Big Creek’ book a labor of love and persistence
By ELAINE WATKINS/YachatsNews.com It’s a clear sunny Sunday as Andrea Scharf walks her collie, Rio, up Big Creek Road. “All those trees would have been cut down if they’d built […]
YachatsNews.com now accepting advertising
To readers of YachatsNews.com You may have noticed something new on the homepage of YachatsNews.com this week – an advertisement (for an electric car show, no less!). When I launched […]
Deputies find apparent murder-suicide in South Beach trailer park
A 64-year-old Tillamook woman apparently killed an older relative during the last several days before she shot and killed herself in an RV park in the South Beach area of […]
March rainfall in Yachats is lowest in 10 years
Yachats got just over three inches of rain in March, the lowest total for that month in the last 10 years. Rainfall measured at the city’s wastewater treatment plant on […]
Cleanup crews finish work early Friday on milk spill south of Yachats
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com Contractors early Friday finished cleaning up a 5-day-old 2,900 gallon milk spill on the east side of U.S. Highway 101 just south of Yachats. The operation […]
Organizers seek artists for annual Yachats banner project
Michael Guerriero is looking for some painters. Guerriero, a Yachats artist, is organizing other artists to paint 40 banners to hang on U.S. Highway 101 light poles in downtown Yachats […]