By DANA TIMS/YachatsNews After extensive behind-the-scenes planning, money is now ready to roll out to help Lincoln County homeless youth and their families find suitable shelter. Nearly $1 million […]
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Is it a first? 14 write-in votes result in Hedlund filling an unappreciated Yachats city council seat
By GARRET JAROS/YachatsNews YACHATS – Whether it is a first or not is anyone’s guess – but with just 14 votes Yachats residents have elected write-in candidate Nicole Hedlund […]
ODOT may be open to allowing lighted warning sign near Yachats fire station — but who pays for it?
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews YACHATS – The board of the Yachats Rural Fire Protection District wants to make another run at getting permission from the Oregon Department of Transportation […]
After more than two years, Lincoln County commissioners struggling to evaluate their first administrator
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews NEWPORT — An attempt by Lincoln County commissioners to conduct their first evaluation of administrator Tim Johnson in 2½ years went awry Wednesday when Johnson didn’t […]
Oregon’s high school success program results hard to measure, 8 years after voters approved it
By ROB MANNING/Oregon Public Broadcasting SALEM — The Oregon Secretary of State’s Office has released its third in a series of audits of the Oregon Department of Education’s High School […]
Oregon lawmakers approve $218 million in wildfire funds in speedy emergency session Thursday
By DIRK VANDERHART/Oregon Public Broadasting SALEM — Oregon lawmakers unleashed a flood of emergency funding Thursday, as the state grapples with its most expensive, expansive wildfire season in modern times. […]
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS: Sealed bids for the construction of the New Yachats Library
Oregon will start testing raw milk from commercial dairy processors this week for bird flu
By LYNNE TERRY/Oregon Capital Chronicle SALEM — Oregon will start testing milk this week for bird flu as part of a federal program to monitor the virus, which has turned […]
After studies, grants, lots of volunteer help and delays, Yachats finally seeks formal bids for $1.5 million library
By CHERYL ROMANO/YachatsNews YACHATS — The design is ready. The budget is set. The county permit is in. Now all that’s needed for a new Yachats library is someone […]
Heceta Head Lightstation prepares for two weekends of its Victorian Christmas open house
By Oregon Coast TODAY Heceta Head Lightstation is celebrating 28 years of its annual Victorian Christmas Open House this weekend and next. During each evening of the open houses, […]