By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com and STEVE LUNDEBERG/OSU News Service Lincoln County reported its sixth COVID-19 related death Friday, a 91-year-old man who died at his residence. That follows the county’s highest […]
By CHERYL ROMANO/YachatsNews.com When the coronavirus pandemic forced cancellation of the Yachats Ladies Club’s traditional fundraising activities this year, members took the opportunity to provide a different service to the […]
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com The Yachats City Council has forgiven $11,000 of a $19,000 water and sewer bill for the owners of Fisterra Gardens Townhomes because of a massive water leak […]
By STEVE LUNDEBERG/OSU News Service The groundbreaking Oregon State University sampling project that helps determine community prevalence of coronavirus will return to Newport for two more days of sampling this […]
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com Like the last four months of 2020, July 4 in Yachats was a lot different. Gone were the big crowds lining the streets for the city’s whimsical […]
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com A second resident of a Newport rehabilitation center has died of COVID-19, one day before Gov. Kate Brown put Lincoln County and seven other rural counties on […]
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com The city of Yachats has chosen a new operator for its city-funded visitors center, approving a two-year contract with a former council member who specializes in online […]
By CHERYL ROMANO/YachatsNews.com After 14 weeks of supplying cash to workers displaced by the coronavirus pandemic, the well has run dry. Yachats Community Presbyterian Church has run out of money […]
By GARY A. WARNER/Oregon Capital Bureau and QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com Oregon’s COVID-19 infection rate is rising so fast that unless checked, businesses may have to close again and reopening schools this […]
QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com and STEVE LUNDEBERG/OSU News Oregon State University researchers are confirming what Newport residents have feared since early June – they have a significant coronavirus problem. Preliminary results from […]
