By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com The coronavirus pandemic claimed its second life this week in Lincoln County, a 63-year-old Newport man who died Tuesday after being hospitalized Sunday with complications from […]
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com Lincoln County and some of its cities are going separate ways on how or if to continue regulating residents and visitors amid the increasing number […]
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com Members of the city’s Parks and Commons Commission on Thursday gave a cool reception to an idea to rent out much of the city’s offices to […]
By MAX KIRKENDALL/Lincoln County News-Guard Lincoln County’s first COVID-19 patient – and the first to be hospitalized – is back home after 10 weeks of treatment and recovery. But […]
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com Oregon Gov. Kate Brown is requiring that people wear face coverings in Lincoln County and six other counties effective June 24 while they are inside public […]
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com Oregon State University is expanding its groundbreaking COVID-19 sampling and research project into Newport this weekend to see how far the coronavirus has spread into the […]
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews It’s easy to glimpse the debate over wearing masks in public during the coronavirus pandemic. Just take a quick walk through downtown Yachats on a sunny Thursday. […]
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com The Oregon Health Authority on Sunday reported another eight COVID-19 cases in Lincoln County as of midnight Saturday, bringing to 51 the number of new cases in […]
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com Pacific Seafood started reopening two of its five Newport processing plants Wednesday after inspections by state food safety and health officials. The plants have been closed […]
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com Unsettled by a large outbreak in Lincoln County COVID-19 cases, county commissioners have again decided against asking the state to enter Phase 2 of Oregon’s reopening plan. […]
