A lane closure on U.S. Highway 101 on Cape Perpetua and around-the-clock flagging will last another week as a contractor pours concrete and make other repairs to a half-viaduct under […]
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Unionization vote complicates Yachats Fire raises
The board of the Yachats Rural Fire Protection District on Wednesday approved 3.5 percent cost-of-living pay increases for four employees retroactive to Dec. 1. But anticipated raises for the department’s […]
Planning Commission adopts ‘clear vision’ standards
After several months of back-and-forth with its attorney, its planner and the community the Yachats Planning Commission on Tuesday approved “clear vision” standards for intersections and forwarded it to the […]
Wave energy expert describes project to Yachats audience
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com If OSU builds it, will they come? Burke Hales and Oregon State University are betting $50 million in federal and state money that someone will. Hales is […]
Eugene performer charms kids at Yachats Library
Guitarist and children’s performer Michael Bradley of Eugene had pre-schoolers from the Yachats Youth & Family Activities Program on their feet Friday morning during a performance at the Yachats Library. […]
Crash near Seal Rock kills woman
A Lincoln City woman was killed and her husband and another driver injured in a head-on crash Thursday night on U.S. Highway 101 just south of Seal Rock. The crash […]
Paradise lost, Yachats found
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com Born and raised in Paradise, Calif., Tracy Cahn is starting over in Yachats. Gone is her three-bedroom home in Paradise and everything inside it. Gone is her […]
Youth program wins $10,000 grant
The Yachats Youth & Family Activities Program has received a $10,000 grant from Samaritan Health Services as part of the hospital group’s 2019 distribution of $450,000 to social service groups […]
Yachats awards 3-year contract for web makeover
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com The city of Yachats should have a new website by July. After almost a year of study and some controversy, the city of Yachats has signed a […]
City contracts with new planner
The city of Yachats has contracted with a new planner following the Dec. 31 retirement of Larry Lewis. David Mattison of Tillamook started the one-day-a-week contract position Jan. 8. In […]