By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com Devils Churn is an ocean-worn crack in a massive basalt flow created by a volcano 37 million years ago. Seventy-five yards wide at its mouth, the […]
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Bystanders describe desperate attempt to rescue California man who drowned Thursday at Devils Churn on Cape Perpetua
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com Bystanders trying to rescue a California man Thursday from the depths of Devils Churn had him briefly on a makeshift line and then a life ring […]
Lincoln County Oregon Building Permits – August 2021
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Louis Southworth — a slave who bought his freedom, homesteaded near Waldport and donated land for its first school — is namesake of city’s new park
By CHERI BRUBAKER/YachatsNews.com WALDPORT — Louis Southworth came to Oregon in the 1850s along the Oregon Trail, a young Black slave owned by a man from Tennessee. He […]
Rapid deteriorating whale carcass moves out of cove early Sunday, floats into bay for a bit — and high tide is taking it out to sea
By DANA TIMS and QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com The rapidly deteriorating carcass of a juvenile gray whale that washed ashore this week in Yachats moved out of a rocky cove below Ocean […]
Young gray whale was likely a victim of orcas and dead when it washed ashore Monday in Yachats
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com A young gray whale on the beach in Yachats was likely dead when it washed ashore Monday and could have been killed by orcas that prey […]
Lincoln County Oregon Building Permits – July 2021
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No room at the campsite. Coastal campgrounds and RV parks booked solid as post-pandemic travelers flood the highways
By DANA TIMS/YachatsNews.com It’s hard to think about anyone having serious reservations about summer camping along Oregon’s central coast. Tide pools, sand dunes, the incessant thrum of the surf […]
SAVING THE OREGON SILVERSPOT: Researchers focus on meadows south of Yachats trying to unravel mysteries of threatened butterfly and its habitat
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com Erica Henry carefully lifts the netting from the side of the small, improvised tent and squirms underneath. Once partly inside, she begins to poke among the […]
Yachats chief says firefighters will not not respond to incidents inside Yachats Brewing, re-igniting 7-year-old building permit controversy
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com The Yachats Rural Fire Protection District has announced it will not respond to fires or medical calls inside Yachats Brewing because it lacks building permits and […]