By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com NEWPORT — Lincoln County commissioners have re-instituted their moratorium on new vacation rental licenses, and under threat of a lawsuit made the freeze retroactive to Dec. […]
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After contentious discussion Thursday over some contract terms, Yachats council agrees on latest offer to prospective city manager
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com It wasn’t pretty. It wasn’t very professional. And it was contentious at times. But by the end of a 3½-hour meeting Thursday, the Yachats City Council […]
After a crazy summer, hospitality veterans look for a calmer winter but with continued worries over staffing, housing and supply chain
By CHERYL ROMANO/YachatsNews.com As she surveys her bustling restaurant on a pre-Thanksgiving Friday, Rosetta Dimiceli is grateful that her staff is about to get some time off. “The summer […]
Little Log Church “buttoned up” for the winter and maybe longer as the city of Yachats debates what to do next
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNew.com YACHATS — After years with its deteriorating exterior exposed to the wind and rain, the Little Log Church and Museum is buttoned up for the winter […]
As COVID-19 cases level off in Lincoln County, health officials begin to worry about a winter surge from holiday gatherings
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com After a steep decline from this summer, the number of COVID-19 cases in Lincoln County leveled off in November and now health officials worry that holiday […]
Oregon State Police believe they have solved mystery of girl found dead in Lincoln County, arrest mother Tuesday in Michigan
By NOELLE CROMBIE/The Oregonian/OregonLive The mother of a young girl whose remains were found a year ago along a muddy riverbank at […]
As Oregon crabbers pull their pots this week, prices at the dock should reach more than $4.75 per pound
By DANA TIMS/YachatsNews.com With Oregon’s Dungeness crab season officially opening Wednesday, a number of factors are lining up to push prices to record early-season highs. Last year’s relatively low-yield […]
Yachats Fire gets new-to-it engine from Newport to replace failing pumper after $8,000 anonymous gift
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com YACHATS — Maybe by Christmas Yachats-area residents will be seeing a new – well, not exactly new – fire engine racing to emergency calls. With an […]
Regional economist puts awful numbers to pandemic’s 2020 decimation of coastal tourism, but says rebound is under way
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com The state economist who focuses on the Oregon coast has come up with a number that documents the hit that the tourism industry and its workers […]
Yachats Planning Commission OKs permit for builder to complete unfinished downtown retail/condo project
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com A development in downtown Yachats that has sat partially completed for 13 years and labeled an “eyesore” by one Planning Commission member, may be on its […]