By OREGON COAST TODAY The Newport Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of director Adam Flatt, will greet the new year with “Magical Tales,” at the Newport Performing Arts Center […]
Archives for January 2024
Individual property fee cut from Oregon wildfire funding proposal, but big timber could still get break
By ALEX BAUMHARDT/Oregon Capital Chronicle SALEM — A proposal that would charge each Oregon property owner $10 a year to offset rising fees that timber and ranch landowners pay to […]
Supreme Court will hear Grants Pass homeless camping case, but little impact seen in Oregon
By JULIA SHUMWAY/Oregon Capital Chronicle The U.S. Supreme Court will hear a case that originated in Grants Pass and could set a precedent for how cities around the nation are […]
5 Questions and a Secret: Mary Crook and Shelley Yates of “Books and More” in Yachats
BY KATHLEEN O’CONNOR/YachatsNews What do you do when your business partner wants to retire before you do? You hope to find a new one, equally as perfect as the […]
Newport assisted living center without power calls on emergency providers, families to safely move residents
By GARRET JAROS/YachatsNews NEWPORT – After squeaking through the night of generator power with limited light and no television, the residents of Oceanview Senior Living in north Newport packed […]
Without power for days, community of Depoe Bay pulls together with help of neighbors, city and fire department
By GARRET JAROS/YachatsNews DEPOE BAY – With no electricity and every business in town closed, Depoe Bay resembled a ghost town Monday afternoon. But with sunny skies, a gentle breeze […]
Newport’s emergency shelter quickly set up Sunday and Monday for shivering residents, closes Tuesday evening
By GARRET JAROS/YachatsNews NEWPORT – It was all hands on deck at the Newport Recreation Center on Sunday after powerful winds out of the east Saturday felled trees that […]
Storm stories: Staying warm by the wood stove in Beverly Beach and clearing trees east of Newport
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews It’s 52 degrees in the garage where Julie and Dennis Wehling have been holed up since Saturday. And that’s with the wood stove blazing. That’s better […]
One person’s view: Even for the prepared, there’s a bit of wistfulness when the light returns
By LORI TOBIAS/for YachatsNews NEWPORT — Friday afternoon, we’d arrived home from the Willamette Valley, where I’d had a doctor’s appointment. I’d watched weather reports for days, gauging the timing […]
Electricity being restored Tuesday evening to thousands of CLPUD customers from Yachats to Lincoln Beach after outages caused by thawing lines
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews Much of Lincoln County was hit with another series of power outages Tuesday afternoon when two large Central Lincoln Peoples Utility District transmission lines went out affecting […]