By CHERYL ROMANO/YachatsNews For almost five years, customers at the Yachats Mercantile store have been used to seeing only one side of Jay Chambers — the side that works the cash register, helps them find things and orders hardware. Now, though, the world is getting a different view — Jay V. Chambers, book author. […]
5 Questions and a Secret
5 Questions and A Secret: Oceanside Flooring’s Leona and Mitch Rose
By CHERYL ROMANO/YachatsNews WALDPORT — Have you ever wandered the canyons of a big box home improvement store in quest of help or advice? And come up empty on both counts? If so, you may appreciate the two words that underpin a new flooring, tile and cabinet business in Waldport — “family” and “local.” […]
5 Questions and A Secret: Karen Chalmers and Spinning Sands at Seal Rock beach
By KATHLEEN O’CONNOR/YachatsNews At any time during the year drivers along U.S. Highway 101 can suddenly find themselves turning their cars to see what is going on at low tide on the beach at Little Creek Cove Scenic Point, just south of Seal Rock State Park. From the roadside vantage point, they can look […]
5 Questions and A Secret: Yaquina Nursery’s Chris and Renee Taylor Valentin
By CHERYL ROMANO/YachatsNews When the Yaquina Nursery was up for sale in 2021, a friend told Chris Valentin, “Hey, you and Renee should buy this.” So they did. The Eugene couple (she goes by Renee Taylor Valentin) had long wished for a future on the Oregon coast, but at no time did the business […]
5 Questions and A Secret: Green Salmon coffee roaster Adrian Beatty
By JORDAN ESSOE/YachatsNews.com In the summertime, when tourist traffic is at its peak, Adrian Beatty sometimes shows up to work at the Green Salmon Coffee Company as early as midnight to roast coffee beans. Alone, hour after hour, batch after batch, his smokestack fills the night streets of Yachats with the beguiling, caramelized aroma […]
5 Questions and a Secret: Rural route mail carriers Michael and Cherish Nowatchik
By JORDAN ESSOE/YachatsNews The husband-and-wife team of Michael and Cherish Nowatchik, both 34, are Waldport’s newest mail carriers. Last August they took up what is referred to internally by the United States Post Office as Route 71, which includes roughly 720 addresses between Crestline Drive near Waldport High School and Fircrest Way in the […]
5 Questions and a Secret: Marc and Jen Taylor of Styx, Stones n’ Bones shop in Yachats
Editor’s note: This is a new feature called “5 Questions and a Secret” where we will be doing bite-sized profiles of community members and asking them to answer five questions — and tell us a secret. It appears every other Wednesday. By JORDAN ESSOE/YachatsNews YACHATS — Styx, Stones n’ Bones is the premier […]
5 Questions and a Secret: Michele Thompson, third generation owner of Thompson’s Nursery in Waldport
Editor’s note: This is a new feature called “5 Questions and a Secret” where we will be doing bite-sized profiles of community members and asking them to answer five questions — and tell us a secret. It appears every other Wednesday. By JORDAN ESSOE/YachatsNews Michele Thompson, 50, of Waldport and her children represent […]