By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com After a year of debate and study and six months of work, the city of Yachats went live with its new website Monday morning. Its debut – […]
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Yachats council gives go-ahead for $370,000 library expansion and remodel
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com The Yachats City Council gave the go-ahead Wednesday night to a $370,000 project to expand, remodel and furnish the city’s 46-year-old library. The city will use $60,000 […]
Seven Yachats residents chip in to buy surplus entrance sign for City Hall
When Yachats city offices move from the Commons to the 501 Building there will be a bright, new sign for it. Seven Yachats residents banded together to buy a mistakenly-made […]
Is Yachats’ “Clean Sweep” getting too big? City commission begins debating that question
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com Yachats’ annual “Clean Sweep” event may be getting too popular – and big – for its own good. The city-sponsored event each June encourages people to […]
Yachats council debates water rate adjustments, OKs study to possibly fix problems
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com The city of Yachats will proceed with a $24,000 study of its water rates to possibly help correct billing mistakes made more than three years ago but […]
Yachats council discusses vacation rental issues in long Wednesday meeting but makes little headway
The Yachats City Council made little progress Wednesday on one of its thorniest issues – working out details of potential changes to the city’s 2-year-old vacation rental ordinance. Yachats’ vacation […]
Yachats will seek grant for traffic study to possibly help council make decisions on Ocean View Drive
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com The Yachats City Council voted 4-1 Wednesday to seek a state grant to do a comprehensive traffic study after a discussion and debate about what to do […]
First six months of 2019 is one of driest, but rain last week helps Yachats’ water system
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com Yachats experienced its third driest June in the last 10 years and so far this year has received five inches less than its average six-month rainfall. But […]
Yachats wrestling with how to resolve unpaid water bill for Bernard building
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com The city of Yachats is trying to get a Eugene excavation company to pay most of a $2,309 water bill owed by businessman Nathan Bernard rather than […]
County delays paving Ocean View Drive, also postponing city’s one-way traffic changes
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com The repaving of Ocean View Drive through Yachats won’t happen this month and likely not occur until the fall. That, in turn, will delay the county’s turning […]