By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com YACHATS – The mayor-elect of Yachats – and the councilor who lost to him in this week’s general election – believe the vote was a reflection […]
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Yachats council gives 82 feet of neglected city street to neighbors, sends limits on hedges, fences and walls back for more work
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com YACHATS – The Yachats city council held two public hearings Thursday, approving the donation of a long-neglected and small piece of Shell Street to adjoining property […]
Councilor, commission chair seeking Yachats mayor position have similar thoughts on issues but different approach to solutions
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com YACHATS – A Yachats city councilor who sought the mayor’s office four years ago is facing off against the chair of a city commission […]
Two appointees and one commission member vying for two seats on five-member Yachats city council
YACHATS – While not quite as crowded a field as two years ago, there are choices for city of Yachats voters Nov. 8 when it comes to electing two council […]
New engineering study of Little Log Church Museum gives Yachats council hope that it can be repaired next year
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com YACHATS – The Yachats city council may finally have found an engineering report and estimate to repair its shuttered Little Log Church Museum that it likes. […]
Yachats’ emergency preparedness committee in turmoil over cache proposal stalled by city hall and council
By CHERYL ROMANO/YahatsNews.com YACHATS — Some members of Yachats’ Emergency Preparedness Committee are clashing with the city over how to best help people survive a tsunami. Frustrated by what […]
Dominated by single-family homes, Yachats’ land-use consultants begin to outline ways the city can help diversify its housing
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com YACHATS – The city’s housing stock is dominated by second homes and vacation rentals, there is adequate land for new construction but most of it is […]
Yachats library finds its first paid administrator — a volunteer with a business background — literally right around the corner
By CHERYL ROMANO/YachatsNews.com YACHATS — As of Thursday, Yachats’ venerable, all-volunteer library is still venerable but no longer staffed entirely by volunteers. Traci Miller-Altson of Yachats has been hired […]
Yachats Chamber of Commerce wins city contracts for visitor center and marketing, announces hiring of new executive director
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com YACHATS – The Yachats City Council on Thursday awarded contracts totaling $85,000 a year to the Yachats Chamber of Commerce to run the visitor’s center and […]
ODOT and Yachats agree on delineators for U.S. Highway 101 on south edge of town — and sidewalk may be in future
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com YACHATS – A stretch of U.S. Highway 101 on the south edge of Yachats may become a bit safer later this year for pedestrians and bicyclists. […]