By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com Jim Peterson and Eric Meyer’s neighborhood sits on an ancient lava shelf where Cape Foulweather plummets into the Pacific Ocean south of Depoe Bay. The views […]
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Lincoln County’s health director sounds alarm about diminishing COVID-19 testing supplies and slow results
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com The head of Lincoln County’s health department is sounding a warning about coronavirus testing, saying that supplies are dwindling in Oregon and test results are taking […]
Free meal in a paper sack times 11,600 — Waldport’s Moose Lodge dishes out food with lots of community support
By CHERYL ROMANO/YachatsNews.com WALDPORT — One Sunday in early June, Jim Sehl had to do something “just tragic” — he suspended the free meal program at the Waldport Moose Lodge. […]
At the start of a coastal tourist season unlike any other, promotors and businesses try to change their message to survive
By DANA TIMS/YachatsNews.com The July 4 weekend normally kicks off a two-month stretch that’s akin to harvest season for the coast’s $2.1 billion tourism industry. But it will be nothing […]
First days of governor’s face mask order in Lincoln County marred by massive racial backlash on week-old local directive
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com and CHRISTIAN WIHTOL/The Lund Report The willingness of Oregonians to try to stem COVID-19 cases started Wednesday when residents and visitors in Lincoln County and six other […]
Yachats church’s “Pastor Bob” pushed by faith and family activism, rises to new challenges during pandemic and troubled times
By CHERYL ROMANO/YachatsNews.com A homeless man approaches Bob Barrett one misty May morning as he goes to work at Yachats Community Presbyterian Church. The man is there to see […]
Lincoln County races to trace hundreds of contacts by sick Pacific Seafood workers, will ask everyone to quarantine for 14 days
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com Lincoln County is racing Tuesday to begin tracking down everyone that 124 seafood workers with COVID-19 have been in touch with the past two weeks. The workers […]
Pacific Seafood announces that 124 workers at its Newport plants have tested positive for COVID-19; closes all five facilities
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com Some 124 workers at Pacific Seafood’s five processing plants in Newport have tested positive for COVID-19, the company announced Sunday, making it by far the largest […]
Yachats lodging and more restaurants prepare to reopen next week as closures end and new operating protocols take effect
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com Shut for 10 weeks, the owners of the Adobe Motel and Restaurant used it as an opportunity to replace headboards and beds in its 110 rooms and […]
Living in Yachats, working anywhere: How local professionals do it remotely
By CHERYL ROMANO/YachatsNews.com “Oh, you get to work in your pajamas.” “You’re so lucky; you can set your own hours.” “It must be great to be your own boss.” The […]