The Yachats Planning Commission is turning over three of its seven members starting this month and there is still one unfilled vacancy. Christine Orchard, a former member, and Jacqueline Danos […]
Yachats gets $100,000 grant to help street repair
The city of Yachats has received a $100,000 grant to help pay for the reconstruction of East Second Street between Highway 101 and Prospect Avenue. The one-way street is on […]
Yachats City Council gets makeover with three new members
A new mayor and two Yachats City Council members were sworn into office Wednesday, creating a new majority and possibly heading the group in a different direction. John Moore, a […]
City studies building options
The city of Yachats is taking further steps to resolve some of its building and space issues. The Library Commission has officially ended its two-year study to determine if a […]
Volunteers help scientists study marine debris
The Cape Perpetua Collaborative organizes the monthly citizen-science project to help establish a baseline of marine debris along the Oregon coast. The next survey is Jan. 12 at Cape Perpetua. […]
Cape Perpetua center remains open during government shutdown
The Cape Perpetua Visitor Center is open — one of the few U.S. Forest Service facilities on the Oregon coast not affected by the shutdown of large swaths of the […]
New council moves meeting dates, sets 2019 goals
One of the first things the new Yachats City Council did Wednesday is change its monthly meeting schedule. The council had been meeting at 9:30 a.m. the first Wednesday of […]
2019 calendar benefits Yachats kids
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com You could say that the calendar for Yachats Youth and Family Activities Program started on Dec. 3, 2011. That’s when Ken Gagne of Yachats was loading his […]
Cape Trail reopens after slide
The Siuslaw National Forest has reopened the short trail along Highway 101 on Cape Perpetua that connects two popular trails after erosion of the cliff below made it unsafe. But […]
Newport hospital reopens walk-in clinic
NEWPORT — After three weeks of operation inside a mobile medicine van, the walk-in urgent care clinic at Samaritan Pacific Communities Hospital in Newport has reopened in a longer-term location next to […]