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Archives for May 2023
Yachats Farmers Market returns Sunday with record number of vendors
YACHATS — The city’s popular Sunday Farmers Market returns on Mother’s Day this Sunday with a record number of vendors — 45 — and some new food options. The market […]
Samaritan dietitian offering wellness seminars on May 31
NEWPORT — A Samaritan Health Services dietitian will present a free wellness seminar two times on Wednesday, May 31 to develop a framework to feeling your best. Rachele Hall will […]
Yachats and SW Lincoln PUD agree to explore if and how the city can become a long-term water customer
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews The city of Yachats and Southwest Lincoln Water People’s Utility District have agreed to start discussing how Yachats might become a regular, long-term customer of the […]
Newport attorney portrays Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes during history performance Saturday
By GRETCHEN AMMERMAN/Oregon Coast TODAY The Supreme Court. For better or for worse, it’s the last word on the laws that shape the American landscape. And one of its […]
Waldport wildlife photographer will show work from Arctic trip Wednesday in Newport
Take a ride with members of the Yaquina Birders and Naturalists to the “Land of the Midnight Sun” during a naturalist presentation by Waldport wildlife photographer Roy W. Lowe […]
Oregon lifts COVID-19 vaccine requirements, quarantine advice and other health measures as federal emergency ends
By BEN BOTKIN/Oregon Capital Chronicle Oregon is ending COVID-19 vaccine requirements for educators and health care workers and officials are no longer asking people infected with the virus to […]
Siuslaw National Forest going to electronic fee machines
Some recreation areas in the Siuslaw National Forest and Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area are going electronic by installing automated fee machines. The machines, the agency said in a news […]
Oregon Gov. Kotek, fire officials say wet winter could delay wildfires, but drought persists
By JULIA SHUMWAY/Oregon Capital Chronicle SALEM — A wet winter is likely to delay wildfires, but ongoing drought in eastern Oregon could make for a worse fire season east of […]
Attack on gray whale calf by large pod of orcas Monday brings marine predation close to shore for dozens of witnesses
By DANA TIMS/YachatsNews Emotions ranged from exhilaration to horror Monday evening as dozens gathered on the shore near Cape Foulweather witnessed a pod of killer whales attacking a migrating […]