PETE DANKO/Portland Business Journal With a big pot of federal money in hand, Oregon State University trustees have approved a $73.5 million capital budget for PacWave, a project just north […]
Archives for July 2020
Fifth resident of Newport nursing home dies Monday after testing positive for COVID-19; Lincoln County hears dire warnings on tests, virus spread
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com The death toll for residents of a Newport nursing home who tested positive for COVID-19 reached five Monday, as county health officials warned of increasing spread in […]
Oregon health officials Friday warn of “exponential growth” of COVID-19 cases if current trends continue
By GARY A. WARNER/Oregon Capital Bureau Oregon faces an “exponential growth” in COVID-19 cases if current trends continue, Oregon health officials said Friday, with ever rising numbers of infections, hospitalizations […]
Oregon Health Authority’s coronavirus report for Friday, July 10
Oregon reports 275 new confirmed and presumptive COVID-19 cases, 2 new deaths PORTLAND, Ore. — COVID-19 has claimed two more lives in Oregon, raising the state’s death toll to 232, the […]
Yachats couple also sees evidence of city’s “growing pains”
To the Editor: Thank you, Fran Morse, for your letter that so eloquently, and in such a heartfelt manner, stating what my husband and I have been calling “Yachats’ Growing […]
Oregon Health Authority’s coronavirus report for Thursday, July 9
Oregon reports 389 new confirmed and presumptive COVID-19 cases, 6 new deaths PORTLAND — COVID-19 has claimed six more lives in Oregon, raising the state’s death toll to 230, the […]
Middle school math teacher from Yachats wins “Einstein” award to work in Washington, D.C. for a year
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com Kama Almasi of Yachats has lived in Japan, been a paralegal in Seattle, taught college in Wisconsin – and this spring taught math to middle school students […]
Lincoln County reports 14 more COVID-19 cases Thursday, sixth death Friday as number of daily cases across Oregon hit highest yet
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com and STEVE LUNDEBERG/OSU News Service Lincoln County reported its sixth COVID-19 related death Friday, a 91-year-old man who died at his residence. That follows the county’s highest […]
With pie socials and craft shows shut down by coronavirus, Yachats Ladies Club pivots to help community mask up
By CHERYL ROMANO/YachatsNews.com When the coronavirus pandemic forced cancellation of the Yachats Ladies Club’s traditional fundraising activities this year, members took the opportunity to provide a different service to the […]
Free meal in a paper sack times 11,600 — Waldport’s Moose Lodge dishes out food with lots of community support
By CHERYL ROMANO/YachatsNews.com WALDPORT — One Sunday in early June, Jim Sehl had to do something “just tragic” — he suspended the free meal program at the Waldport Moose Lodge. […]