By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com WALDPORT – The city of Waldport has ordered a towing company to stop its operations on the south edge of town and begin cleaning up its […]
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Many essential workers say they plan to keep wearing masks after Oregon’s indoor mandate ended Saturday following two long years
By JORDAN ESSOE/YachatsNews.com You can take off your mask Saturday, if you want. But frontline and essential workers, who have been required to wear masks unrelentingly for two years, […]
City of Waldport and Central Oregon Coast Fire district may be close to an agreement on new fire station lease
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com WALDPORT – A once acrimonious back-and-forth between the city of Waldport and Central Oregon Coast Fire & Rescue district over the future of the main fire […]
Lincoln County election lineups set for May 17 primary, including crowded fields for two commission positions
There will be at least two new faces in Lincoln County government next year, after filings for the May 17 primary election closed Tuesday evening. Five men are seeking […]
Programs and projects in Lincoln County get $11.3 million from 2022 Legislature; school district regains $846,000 a year
Lincoln County infrastructure projects and a local program to set up a response system to help the homeless received a total of $11.35 million in funding from the Oregon […]
Siletz tribal members in southern Oregon are leading the effort to revive and spread word of the native Kalapuyan language
By MYERS REECE/Underscore.news On a drizzly January morning, Esther Stutzman’s dining room table is covered with sticky notes, worksheets, notepads and several bulky Kalapuya dictionaries. Seated next to Stutzman […]
Seal Rock Fire board wants to offer chief’s job to Ewing, loses two firefighters and board member and decides to keep negotiating with COCF&R
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com SEAL ROCK – The Seal Rock Fire District board wants to offer the part-time consultant who has been helping the district since October a two-year contract […]
From Division 1 basketball to top tier real estate to coaching in Waldport, teaching has always been job No. 1 for Yachats’ D.J. Novgrod
By CHERYL ROMANO/YachatsNews.com One winter day at Yachats’ social hub (the Post Office), a well-known local realtor ran into an acquaintance. “I’ve retired from real estate,” she announced “and […]
Lawyers in Lincoln County vacation rental lawsuit make their arguments on whether Measure 21-203 should be allowed to take effect
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com NEWPORT – After hearing two hours of arguments Wednesday, a Lincoln County circuit judge said she would wait until later this month to rule on whether she […]
As it lays out budget schedule, Yachats Fire board says November levy may be close — minus expiring levy — to one rejected last year
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com YACHATS – A proposed new tax levy by the Yachats Rural Fire Protection District will likely be similar in size to the $1.59 per $1,000 rate […]