By GARRET JAROS/YachatsNews YACHATS – The days of uncollected or overdue food and beverage taxes along with weaknesses in the administration of vacation rentals are over as the city […]
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Newport nurse is first in county to receive national certification to help treat sexual assault victims
A nurse at Samaritan Pacific Communities Hospital in Newport has received national certification to help treat survivors of sexual assault – and four other Samaritan Health nurses are in training […]
Newport-based Dungeness crab fleet getting better prices this year, but harvest numbers are dropping off
By GARRET JAROS/YachatsNews Word along the docks is the Dungeness crab harvest has dropped off markedly in comparison with this time last season – but prices paid to fishermen […]
Yes, there was that ice storm in January, but it was the rain that set local records to start the year
By YachatsNews Punxsutawney Phil’s prediction – even though he’s in Pennsylvania — that spring weather could be arriving soon should bring a sigh of relief to the central Oregon […]
Oregon and local legislators begin 35-day session Monday to address numerous issues
By BEN BOTKIN/Oregon Capital Chronicle SALEM — Oregon lawmakers are starting the legislative session, promising to aim squarely at the state’s homelessness and drug addiction crisis. From Gov. Tina […]
Angell Job Corps rebounds from closure threat, pandemic to re-fill its campus with young people learning trades
By GARRET JAROS/YachatsNews YACHATS – Neither overcast skies nor the occasional downpour of rain dampens the undercurrent of inspiration running through the 16-acre campus of Angell Job Corps north […]
Lincoln County, other organizations increase effort to count all of the area’s homeless to gain support and funds
By YachatsNews and KATU-TV A small army of 100 volunteers from 27 organizations has completed Lincoln County’s most comprehensive count to date of the number of homeless in the […]
Lincoln County sheriff announces he will not seek re-election, throws support to his administrative lieutenant
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews Curtis Landers, who started as a records and property clerk in the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office 37 years ago and rose to lead the agency for the […]
Although it has rental licenses available east of Highway 101, Lincoln County says it won’t issue them until all appeals end
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews Jay Kay and Heidi Olsen of Poulsbo, Wash. would just like to use their 1½-year-old house between Yachats and Waldport as a vacation rental when they’re […]
Yachats’ post office furor seems to be dying down as patrons adjust to strictly enforced rules
By GARRET JAROS/YachatsNews YACHATS – When Yachats’ postmaster Chanda Kowitz left the position for undisclosed reasons at the beginning of the year a sudden and unwelcome change occurred — […]