Barbara E. Frye, a lifetime health care advocate and recent Yachats City Council member, died Thursday, Nov. 21 in her home after a nine-month battle with pancreatic cancer. She was 71. Frye was born April 7, 1948, in Klamath Falls. She lived in Portland, Seattle and Sandy before moving to Yachats in 2010. She was […]
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Yachats newcomer offering free Thanksgiving dinner to anyone in town
Markaye Simpson’s children are grown and gone and her husband works out of town. So rather than have Thanksgiving dinner alone, she’s cooking turkey and ham with all the fixings and inviting anyone in Yachats to join her. Dinner is served from 2-5 p.m. Thursday, Thanksgiving Day, in the kitchen and multipurpose room […]
Yachats-to-Florence bus experiment gets extended for two years, starts Saturday service
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com A bus system connecting Yachats to Florence has a new, two-year lease on life and is expanding service to Saturdays starting this month. The Oregon Transportation Commission this summer awarded a $500,000 grant to the Lane Council of Governments to assume oversight of the pilot project linking Yachats and Florence with a […]
Paradise, Calif. fire victim perseveres in Yachats one year after fire destroyed her town
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com Tracy Cahn’s daughter is in second grade and looking forward to her first ukulele lesson. Cahn’s son graduated from high school in June, despite living 450 miles away, and is looking for a trade apprenticeship. But a year after fleeing the Camp Fire inferno in Paradise, Calif. that incinerated her home […]
Yachats Celtic Music Festival recovers from struggles to attract performers from across North America
By KATHERINE LJUNGQVIST/YachatsNews.com When the four-member traditional Scottish-Irish music group Beolach takes the stage next Saturday night to headline the 2019 Yachats Celtic Music Festival, it’s not an accident that they traveled the continent from Nova Scotia. It’s because festival music director Stephen Farish of Waldport spends months researching artists, making connections and trying […]
At least four Yachats-area residents file election complaints against Fire Board member
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com At least four residents in the Yachats Rural Fire Protection District have filed complaints with the Oregon Elections Division alleging that statements by newly-elected fire board member A’lyce Ruberg in the Lincoln County voter’s pamphlet in May were lies. This follows a vote by the Oregon State Board of Nursing earlier […]
New Yachats fire station, largest public works project in area’s history, ready to unveil to the public
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com The big entrance sign is almost done, the last of the landscaping is in, there are walls getting a last touch up with paint, floors to clean and polish and a radio tower to erect and test. Three flag poles stand at the ready. The largest public works project in the […]
Oregon nursing board proposes $5,000 fine for false claims by newly elected Yachats Fire member
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com The Oregon State Board of Nursing on Wednesday voted to fine a newly elected member of the Yachats Rural Fire Protection District $5,000 for claiming in the Lincoln County voters pamphlet that she was a registered nurse. The board found that the voters pamphlet statements last May by A’lyce Ruberg saying […]
YachatsNews to add three features to website starting Monday, Sept. 9
A note to YachatsNews.com readers: I’m happy to announce some small but noteworthy enhancements coming to YachatsNews.com starting Monday, Sept. 9. The additions are intended to both broaden and deepen the appeal of the website. But first some background. I started YachatsNews.com in January as a community service. By the end of February it had […]
Lincoln County district attorney leaving job to take state position; governor seeks candidates
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com Fresh out of law school and eager to get legal experience, Michelle Branam took a three-month position in the Wasco County district attorney’s office in 2004. She got little pay that spring, but the district attorney offered free housing in migrant quarters in his parents’ cherry orchard. One case stuck with […]