By GARRET JAROS/YachatsNews YACHATS – Building a skate park in a town awash in retirees might seem like a ploy to entice the grandchildren to visit — but it can also be an amenity as popular as playgrounds that attract not only the young but the young at heart. “When you ride your skateboard […]
City of Yachats
Yachats’ new city manager believes her “can-do” spirit and work ethic will bring stability to position plagued by turnover
By GARRET JAROS/YachatsNews When December dawns the slippery reins of Yachats city manager will fall into the capable but untested hands of Waldport native Bobbi Price who credits her family for instilling the can-do spirit that has characterized her career. Price graduated from Waldport High School in 2001, attended Portland State University for just […]
After years of debate and delay, city of Yachats says repairs to Little Log Church Museum should begin in February
By GARRET JAROS/YachatsNews YACHATS – If the weather cooperates, repairs on the Little Log Church Museum will begin in February. After several years of community wrangling about whether to refurbish or raze the historic building completed by volunteers in 1930, along with feasibility studies and money set aside for its resurrection, the plan to […]
Yachats chamber receives $100,000 grant to help fund tourist trolley but the city misses out
YACHATS — Efforts to bring a tourist-style trolley to Yachats have run into a snag after Travel Oregon announced Thursday that while the Yachats Area Chamber of Commerce received the $100,000 grant it sought the city did not. Each had applied for $100,000 grants under Travel Oregon’s accessible and inclusive program to help purchase […]
Yachats commission will ask city council to raze library and instead plan for new $1.46 million building
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews YACHATS – The Yachats Library Commission voted unanimously Thursday to ask the city council if it can proceed with plans to tear down the library on West Seventh Street and work on a slightly revised design for an entirely new structure. That’s a departure of 18 months of planning to remodel […]
The mystery of a $1,866 monthly Yachats water bill is solved. (Hint: Is your toilet running?)
BY GARRET JAROS/YachatsNews YACHATS – The mystery of the Yachats water bill run amuck is solved. Stephen Issac, who lives alone and whose monthly water bill averages $130, was stunned when he saw two massive and intermittent spikes this year — $876 in May and $1,866 in August. Isaac called the city after his […]
Yachats chamber names co-directors to oversee its operations as Price prepares to take city job
BY GARRET JAROS/YachatsNews YACHATS – A tandem team has stepped into the breach at the Yachats Area Chamber of Commerce to fill the vacancy left by the departing executive director. Mindy Parsons and Nichole Lippincott will collaborate to cover all things chamber as they move the organization into the future on the heels of […]
Soil tests for Yachats library project throw a monkey wrench into $1 million expansion plans
By CHERYL ROMANO/YachatsNews YACHATS — The plan all along had been to renovate and expand the 50-year-old Yachats Library on West Seventh Street with a $1.09 million makeover. But soil tests have dictated a “course correction”, in the words of one project leader. In early September, Foundation Engineering of Corvallis discovered it had to […]
Yachats council asks staff to develop homeless camping ordinance so it can begin some type of enforcement
By GARRET JAROS/YachatsNews YACHATS – Getting an ordinance on the books to addresses homeless camping in Yachats moved forward Thursday with a request by the city council that staff pen a rough draft highlighting where camping will not be allowed. Yachats is the only city in Lincoln County without a public camping ordinance, which […]
Yachats council changes course Thursday and votes to hire chamber director Bobbi Price as next city manager
By GARRET JAROS/YachatsNews YACHATS – Riding a wave of public and city staff support along with some soul-searching by the city council, Bobbi Price has been named the next city manager of Yachats. The decision to hire Price, the executive director of the Yachats Area Chamber of Commerce, was announced at a special meeting […]