By LORI TOBIAS/Oregon ArtsWatch If you’ve seen Travel Oregon’s “Only Slightly Exaggerated” campaign of 2021, meant to draw tourists to Oregon with animated images of the state’s wonders, you might agree […]
Other Yachats Community News
Coos, Umpqua, Siuslaw tribes sue federal government in effort to stop October offshore wind auction
By ALEX BAUMHARDT/Oregon Capital Chronicle Officials from the Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians are suing the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management over its decision […]
Mobility mats at beach north of Florence designed to help more people reach the ocean
By KLCC News FLORENCE — Lane County has installed a six-foot-wide temporary path at Heceta Beach that connects the parking area to the beach as part of an effort […]
Prices and interest rates leading to lowest number of Lincoln County property sales in three years
By DANA TIMS/YachatsNews When it comes to coastal real estate, industry veterans are always trying to spot new influences capable of roiling a market that seems perpetually unstable. There […]
Lincoln County hopes to have new state-funded drug “deflection” programs running by November, at latest
By GARRET JAROS/YachatsNews For three years police in Lincoln County could not do much when they came across someone in possession of a small amount of illegal drugs except […]
Waldport community comes together to help assemble massive new play structure at Southworth Park
By GARRET JAROS/YachatsNews WALDPORT – In a flurry of activity spanning three days this week, dozens of volunteers banded together to help erect what is being touted as the […]
After years of debate and budgeting, Yachats finally seeks contractors to repair and reopen Little Log Church Museum
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews YACHATS — Mayors, councilors, commission members and city managers have come and gone but finally after at least six years of debate, studies and budgeting the […]
Lincoln County senator proposing 2025 legislation that would exclude tips from Oregon taxes
By LYNNE TERRY/Oregon Capital Chronicle A Republican state senator who represents part of the Oregon coast that relies heavily on a tourist economy has submitted a plan to exclude […]
Are you emergency-ready? Yachats fair Saturday helps residents “Be Prepared, Not Scared”
By CHERYL ROMANO/YachatsNews YACHATS — Disasters aren’t fun to think about, but wildfires, landslides and earthquakes are even less fun to experience — so “Be Prepared, Not Scared!” is […]
Researchers — and detection dogs — scour the southern Oregon coast to track the elusive, endangered marten
By JULIET GRABLE/Jefferson Public Radio On a warm day in late June, Jessica Buskirk, Alyssa Roddy, and Mark Stevens bushwack through a coastal forest just east of Gold Beach. […]