NEWPORT — Do you have the essential items to survive when disaster strikes? Two free seminars Wednesday, Jan. 8, at the Samaritan Center for Health Education can help you be better prepared for an emergency. There are two sessions with the same information to be presented at each – 2 to 3:30 p.m. and 5:30 […]
Archives for January 2020
Yachats rainfall in 2019 was second-lowest in past 10 years, again
It was a very dry year in Yachats. Again. Yachats received a total of 50.43 inches in rain in 2019 — the second-lowest amount of rain over the past 10 years of record keeping by the city of Yachats. It was the second consecutive dry year in Yachats this decade. Until 2019, the second-lowest […]
Oregon State Police/Newport activity log Dec. 30-Jan. 1
OREGON STATE POLICE DAILY MEDIA/DESK LOG SP19452952 12/30/2019 19:16 Officer #52129 LARSON, ERIC Agency Assist Location 5600 PALISADES DR, GLENEDEN BEACH, LINCOLN Narrative Summary On the evening of December 30, 2019, the Oregon State Police assisted the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office serve a move out restraining order on an uncooperative subject. The subject was ultimately located inside the trailer […]
Grand jury indicts Newport man for October death of his girlfriend
By Douglas Perry | The Oregonian/OregonLive A 27-year-old Newport man has been indicted for murder in the death of his girlfriend. Ryan Steven Gaskins was already being held in the Lincoln County Jail on an “unrelated matter” before Tuesday’s indictment, Newport police said Thursday. He will be arraigned Thursday on murder, second-degree assault and strangulation charges. […]
Coast Guard crews from Newport rescue disabled crab boat near Yachats
A Coast Guard crew aboard their 47-foot motor lifeboat towed a disabled commercial fishing boat Tuesday night to safety in Yaquina Bay after it became disabled 2.5 miles northwest of Yachats. The Coast Guard station in North Bend received a report at 12:57 p.m. Tuesday that the 52-foot Pacific Cloud with three people aboard and […]