By DANA TIMS/YachatsNews.com Black bears — driven by failures in their normal autumn food supplies — are rummaging through garbage cans up and down Oregon’s central coast and generally […]
Other Yachats Community News
Yachats council gives 82 feet of neglected city street to neighbors, sends limits on hedges, fences and walls back for more work
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com YACHATS – The Yachats city council held two public hearings Thursday, approving the donation of a long-neglected and small piece of Shell Street to adjoining property […]
OSU wins $4.2 million federal grant to investigate ocean issues affecting Dungeness crab and food web
BY MICHELLE KLAMPE/OSU News Service NEWPORT – The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has awarded Oregon State University and its research partners $4.2 million to investigate how multiple climate change-related stressors […]
Yachats community will gather Sunday, Nov. 20 to throw Don Dougherty a going-away 65th birthday bash
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com YACHATS – Don Dougherty is getting a birthday party and a sendoff. Dougherty, 64, who lived in and around Yachats for the last 30 years, died […]
Columbia Bank is selling its branches in Waldport and Newport, but their new owner — whoever they are — will continue to operate them
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com WALDPORT – Columbia Bank is selling – but not closing — its branch offices in Waldport and Newport as a proposed merger with Umpqua Bank nears […]
Yachats-area artist changes coasts, careers and now finishing up three years of grueling botanical illustration studies
By Oregon ArtsWatch YACHATS — If life had gone according to plan, Dana LaMair and her husband, Mark, would be living the life on a cruiser somewhere off the […]
With two competing offers for downtown Waldport property, Lincoln County School District pulls back to re-think best use
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com WALDPORT – Faced suddenly with at least two competing offers for the former Seashore Family Literacy and Waldport school property in the middle of downtown, the […]
73-year-old Yachats Rural Fire Protection District is at a crossroads as voters weigh whether to approve new, large tax levy to fund operations
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com YACHATS – The 73-year-old Yachats Rural Fire Protection District is at a crossroads. Do voters approve a district operating levy request of $1.59 in the Nov. […]
There’s a clash of philosophies, approaches as Gomberg and McEntee square off in race for Oregon House District 10 seat
By DANA TIMS/YachatsNews.com The race for Oregon House District 10 pits Democrat incumbent David Gomberg, who is seeking a sixth two-year term, against Republican Celeste McEntee, a Newport restauranteur who […]
Central Oregon Coast Fire asking voters to OK small increase in one levy to help it keep up with rising equipment and personnel costs
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com WALDPORT – The Central Coast Fire & Rescue District is asking voters Nov. 8 to bump up a current tax levy by 10 cents in order to […]