By GARRET JAROS/YachatsNews NEWPORT – Oregon’s commercial Dungeness crab season is off and running but has been slower out of the blocks this year after gale force winds on […]
Other Yachats Community News
Yachats Lions Club wraps up a year of resurrected monthly lunches with fun on the menu
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews YACHATS – The monthly lunch may have had all the ingredients of a Christmas dinner – ham, sweet potatoes, corn casserole, salad, rolls and cookies – […]
15 vacation rental licenses available, but commissioners extend moratorium for another 3 months
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews Lincoln County commissioners Wednesday extended a years-old moratorium on new vacation rental licenses for another three months, but also said it was time to examine how […]
Grand jury rules deputy justified in using deadly force in November shooting of violent Waldport woman
By GARRET JAROS/YachatsNews A Lincoln County grand jury has found a Lincoln County Sheriff’s deputy justified in using deadly force last month when he shot and killed a 38-year-old […]
Financial review finds no Beachcomber fraud, but Waldport will give documents to state, deny grant
By GARRET JAROS/YachatsNews WALDPORT – When Waldport Beachcomber Days volunteers and supporters showed up at the city council meeting Thursday with a clean bill of health from an independent […]
Last wooden lighthouse on the Oregon coast will close in January for $1.6 million restoration
By TIFFANY ECKERT/KLCC News NEWPORT — Sitting atop the northern bluff at the mouth of the Yaquina Bay is a small wooden 153-year-old lighthouse in need of repair. Soon, […]
$1 million grant will help 10 Lincoln County programs deal with surprising number of homeless children
By DANA TIMS/YachatsNews After extensive behind-the-scenes planning, money is now ready to roll out to help Lincoln County homeless youth and their families find suitable shelter. Nearly $1 million […]
Is it a first? 14 write-in votes result in Hedlund filling an unappreciated Yachats city council seat
By GARRET JAROS/YachatsNews YACHATS – Whether it is a first or not is anyone’s guess – but with just 14 votes Yachats residents have elected write-in candidate Nicole Hedlund […]
ODOT may be open to allowing lighted warning sign near Yachats fire station — but who pays for it?
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews YACHATS – The board of the Yachats Rural Fire Protection District wants to make another run at getting permission from the Oregon Department of Transportation […]
After more than two years, Lincoln County commissioners struggling to evaluate their first administrator
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews NEWPORT — An attempt by Lincoln County commissioners to conduct their first evaluation of administrator Tim Johnson in 2½ years went awry Wednesday when Johnson didn’t […]