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 […]
City of Yachats
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Developer of housing project in downtown Yachats resumes work after months of delays
YACHATS — The owners of a long-unfinished apartment project overlooking U.S. Highway 101 in downtown Yachats have resumed work on their properties after waiting months for permits and getting […]
Yachats council debates where to find another interim manager — and then how to attract a permanent one
By GARRET JAROS/YachatsNews YACHATS – The race to find someone to fill the shoes of the soon-to-be vacant Yachats’ city manager position is in its final stretch, but with […]