By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com WALDPORT – The Port of Alsea board voted Wednesday to end the lease of a small shop it rents to a commercial sand shrimp processor, saying […]
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com A Yachats-based nonprofit development company has received state funding and arranged other financing to proceed with a $10.9 million, 24-unit affordable housing project in Florence. Our […]
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com WALDPORT – The Waldport City Council has given its city manager the OK to begin gathering information on two ideas to potentially help ease the city’s […]
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com A ruling this week by the Oregon Land Use Board of Appeals that overturned a citizen-approved ballot measure phasing out vacation rentals in unincorporated Lincoln County […]
By MIKE McINALLY/Oregon Capital Chronicle On a recent Monday evening, as a heat wave broiled Philomath, elected officials debated what’s been a hot topic this summer throughout Oregon cities […]
Eight fire departments in Lincoln County have received state grants totaling nearly $270,000 to increase staffing during key summer months to better react to potential fires, especially wildfires. The […]
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com Glen and Katherine Aukstikalnis were driving down Highway 101 in November 2009 looking a rental house to buy. Instead, three miles north of Yachats they saw […]
By DANA TIMS/YachatsNews.com A long-awaited federal report says it is “feasible” to reintroduce sea otters to their historical range along parts of the West Coast, including Oregon. The 200-page […]
WALDPORT – There will be lots of opportunities in November to join the Waldport city council – you just have to file some paperwork this month to get on […]
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com The Lincoln County Sheriff’s deputies are no longer responding to nuisance and some lower-level criminal complaints in Yachats and unincorporated areas of the county because of […]
