By JORDAN ESSOE/YachatsNews.com WALDPORT – After 66 days, Meru is home. The three-year-old white German shepherd disappeared in March after being attacked and chased by a pit bull at […]
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Yachats woman who lied in voters pamphlet to win 2019 election pleads guilty to felony, is fined and put on probation
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com A Yachats woman who lied about her background in the Lincoln County voter’s pamphlet three years ago to help get elected to a local fire board, […]
Host of agencies, biologists getting ready for another season of research into endangered silverspot butterfly south of Yachats
By DANA TIMS/YachatsNews.com For the second year in a row, an open-air laboratory is being nurtured south of Yachats as part of a decades-long effort to save the Oregon […]
Yachats budget committee gets first look at 2022-23 spending plan that includes re-staffing city hall, adding public works employees
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com YACHATS – Yachats’s new city manager has proposed a $1.74 million general fund budget for 2022-23 that under a staffing reorganization plan pays for adding five […]
Groups gearing up for dedication of Amanda Trail suspension bridge and special play honoring De-Cuys this weekend
By CHERYL ROMANO/YachatsNews.com YACHATS — Six years in the making, the new Amanda Trail suspension bridge receives its formal — and respectful — welcome Saturday and Sunday. Several activities […]
Have you seen Ronnie? Family and community search for woman who lived in her car the past year around Yachats and Waldport
By CHERYL ROMANO/YachatsNews.com YACHATS – A woman who spent the last year living in her car in and around Yachats abandoned the vehicle nearly three weeks ago, worrying family […]
Yachats council gives unanimous approval to seek engineering design and costs for Ocean View Drive boardwalk
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com YACHATS – The Yachats City Council has given the go-ahead for the next step on what could be a $950,000 project to build a 350-foot boardwalk […]
Waldport High School wins third straight forestry championship, teacher named natural resources educator of the year
WALDPORT – It’s a three-peat for the forestry program at Waldport High School, which also had its instructor honored as natural resources educator of the year for Oregon. Some […]
Yachats Fire budget committee wrestles with bare bones budget for 2022-23 which will require another “bridge” loan to make ends meet
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com YACHATS – The Yachats Rural Fire Protection District will have to take out another bank loan this summer to help make ends meet, following the defeat […]
Yachats councilor asks for more patience and time as city commission expresses frustration with communication, projects
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com YACHATS – A Yachats councilor asked one of the city’s most active commissions Tuesday for a little more patience and a bit more time to allow […]