By BARBARA B. COVELL/Yachats News NEWPORT – Performing arts are back. The number of people attending events at the Newport Performing Arts Center – after dwindling to nearly nothing […]
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When the power goes out, solar systems can be an alternative — but expensive one — even on the Oregon coast
By GARRET JAROS/YachatsNews When thousands of other Lincoln County residents reached for flashlights and broke out camp stoves during the January ice storm and power outages, Lance and Rebecca […]
Canadian company specializing in dinosaurs prepares massive blue whale skeleton for final migration to Newport
By DANA TIMS/YachatsNews Discovery nearly a decade ago of a dead blue whale on the southern Oregon coast drew flocks of sightseers and scientists, all curious to gape at […]
Mother of Waldport woman killed in Jan. 11 collision with Yachats ambulance plans wrongful death lawsuit
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews The mother of a young Waldport woman killed Jan. 11 in a collision with a Yachats ambulance has gone to court asking to be named as […]
Oregon and Lincoln County high schools maintain relatively high on-time 2023 graduation rates
By ALEX BAUMHARDT/Oregon Capital Chronicle and YachatsNews Despite beginning high school during a global pandemic, Oregon’s class of 2023 maintained a relatively high on-time graduation rate, and some groups […]
After 10 years as Oregon Coast CC’s president, Birgitte Ryslinge announces September retirement
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews Birgitte Ryslinge, who has been president of Oregon Coast Community College the past 10 years, announced Wednesday that she planned to retire by Sept. 30. Ryslinge, […]
Thinking about running for a Lincoln County or state office? Candidates are filing for May primary
It’s time to consider running for office in Lincoln County – including filing for positions to appear on the primary election ballot in May. That was highlighted Tuesday when […]
Lincoln County legislator and Republican counterpart looking for way to fund rural infrastructure projects
By PETER WONG/Oregon Capital Bureau A Democrat from the Oregon coast and a Republican from southern Oregon are teaming up to devise a way for smaller communities to draw […]
Bicksler’s bench gives stylish makeover to a Yachats Post Office fixture, and colorful memorial to flamboyant citizen
By CHERYL ROMANO/YachatsNews YACHATS — Hiking boots and flannel shirts often define Yachats chic, but one sophisticated lady declined to take that trend sitting down. Joni Bicksler held court […]
Forest Service taking out vegetation, moving sand to create 50 acres of plover habitat south of Florence
FLORENCE — The western snowy plover, a small shorebird on the government’s list of threatened species, is regaining 50 acres of open sand habitat eight miles south of Florence. […]