By ELAINE WATKINS/YachatsNews.com It’s a clear sunny Sunday as Andrea Scharf walks her collie, Rio, up Big Creek Road. “All those trees would have been cut down if they’d built the resort,” she says, pointing to a stand of hemlock, Douglas fir and spruce. A light mist blows off the ocean, and shafts of sunlight […]
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YachatsNews.com now accepting advertising
To readers of YachatsNews.com You may have noticed something new on the homepage of YachatsNews.com this week – an advertisement (for an electric car show, no less!). When I launched YachatsNews.com in January I did not know how the community would receive it. But I felt there should be a strong demand and appreciation for […]
Deputies find apparent murder-suicide in South Beach trailer park
A 64-year-old Tillamook woman apparently killed an older relative during the last several days before she shot and killed herself in an RV park in the South Beach area of Newport, Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office said Wednesday. Deputies went to Whaler’s Rest RV & Camping Resort in South Beach early Wednesday to check on two […]
March rainfall in Yachats is lowest in 10 years
Yachats got just over three inches of rain in March, the lowest total for that month in the last 10 years. Rainfall measured at the city’s wastewater treatment plant on West Seventh Street for March was 3.06 inches. But in February, Yachats got the second-most rainfall in the past 10 years with more than 12 […]
Cleanup crews finish work early Friday on milk spill south of Yachats
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com Contractors early Friday finished cleaning up a 5-day-old 2,900 gallon milk spill on the east side of U.S. Highway 101 just south of Yachats. The operation started at 8 p.m. Thursday and was finished at 3 a.m. Friday. NWFF Environmental of Philomath and its contractors removed a foot of dirt from […]