By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com YACHATS – The city’s housing stock is dominated by second homes and vacation rentals, there is adequate land for new construction but most of it is restricted to single-family houses, according to an evolving study of housing in Yachats. The city’s biggest housing need is to encourage more duplexes, townhomes and […]
Archives for September 2022
Biden administration announces plans to develop floating wind platforms in the Atlantic and off Oregon and California coasts
By JACOB FISCHLER/States News Service WASHINGTON — The Biden administration will seek to add deep-water offshore wind energy, a developing technology that isn’t yet widely used, to its mix of renewable energy sources, administration leaders said Thursday — including a site off Coos Bay in southern Oregon. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm and Interior Secretary Deb […]
Oregon’s unemployment rate increases slightly in August, but statewide jobs recovery is complete — except in hospitality industry
By PETER WONG/Oregon Capital Bureau Oregon’s unemployment rate ticked up from 3.5% to 3.7% in August — the first increase since the big jump at the onset of the coronavirus pandemic in spring 2020 — but Oregon has also regained all of the jobs lost during that sharp downturn. The 3.7% rate matched the national […]
Waldport-area Meals on Wheels “desperately” needs volunteers to help in kitchen or deliver food to homebound residents
By CHERYL ROMANO/YachatsNews.com WALDPORT — More than 60 people from Yachats to Seal Rock and up Oregon Highway 34 depend on Meals on Wheels to provide warm mid-day meals three times a week. But a shortage of volunteers has spurred an urgent call for more helpers – and possibly put the viability of the […]
Thieves ruin newlyweds’ honeymoon after car clout at Seal Rock State Park
SEAL ROCK — What was supposed to be a beautiful honeymoon along the Oregon Coast turned into a devastating experience for one newlywed couple when someone broke into their truck and stole all their belongings. Last Saturday, Carli and Joe Ghiorso took a vow to spend the rest of their lives together, KGW-TV reported Wednesday. […]
Yachats library finds its first paid administrator — a volunteer with a business background — literally right around the corner
By CHERYL ROMANO/YachatsNews.com YACHATS — As of Thursday, Yachats’ venerable, all-volunteer library is still venerable but no longer staffed entirely by volunteers. Traci Miller-Altson of Yachats has been hired as the city’s new, part-time library administrator. The new administrator comes after a comprehensive study in 2020 that recommended hiring a part-time librarian, joining a […]
Despite LUBA decision, 15neighborhoods group says their STR fight will continue
To the editor: The Oregon Land Use Board of Appeals struck down 15neighborhoods’ Ballot Measure 21-203 because it used three “land use” terms to amend Lincoln County’s short-term rental licensing code. County commissioners decided not to appeal the LUBA dismissal, and 15neighborhoods agreed. On Aug. 31, commissioners extended the county’s moratorium against new licensing for […]
Oregon land-use staffer explains planning system Monday in Yachats
YACHATS – A fledgling community group in Yachats has organized an information session with a state land-use planning official to explain to local residents how Oregon’s land-use process works. Hui Rodomsky, south coast representative for the Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development, will talk about the basics of the land-use system during a public […]
Two Lane County residents arrested for series of car clouts at Yachats motels
YACHATS – Two Lane County residents are in the Lincoln County jail after their arrest for a series of car clouts and a car theft at the Overleaf Lodge and Fireside Motel in Yachats in August and September. Abby M. Brooks, 24, of Eugene and McKenzie D. Harris, 30, of Springfield were arraigned Monday on […]
“Small but mighty” describes outreach by Yachats Community Presbyterian Church
To the editor: I have a spiral notebook where I jot down the number of people that come to Yachats Community Presbyterian Church for some form of assistance. It’s not a fancy system — just the first name or initials, a few words to remind me why there were here or what was provided — […]