By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews WALDPORT – There’s fettucine and sweet rolls, earrings and wall art, knives and wood furniture, knitted hats and early-season vegetables — just a bit of everything — at the growing Waldport Wednesday Market. All accompanied by the sound of music wafting over the market from a rotating and expanding list of […]
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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING WALDPORT PLANNING COMMISSION
April 26, 2024 NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING WALDPORT PLANNING COMMISSION Monday, May 20, 2024, 2:00 p.m. CASE FILE: #5-CU-PC-24 APPLICANT: Daniel J. Schweich Revocable Trust REQUEST: The applicant is requesting a conditional use permit to construct and operate a storage facility in the Planned Industrial Zone (I-P). The site will be used for storage of […]
In the planning for seven years, Oregon Coast CC now asking voters for trades center bond, other projects
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews In a perfect world a trades education center would already be up and running on the main campus of Oregon Coast Community College in Newport. College officials began working on plans for such a center seven years ago. But its board and administrators decided to pivot from 2018-20 to the task […]
Voters in Lincoln County Library District being asked to renew 9 cent levy to help fund operations
By CHERYL ROMANO/YachatsNews Voters in several small cities and unincorporated areas of Lincoln County will have a chance to decide whether to help keep library services going in the May 21 primary election. The Lincoln County Library District is asking voters to renew a levy of nine cents per $1,000 assessed property value for […]
OSU researchers using artificial intelligence to help study threatened coastal seabirds
By APRIL ERHLICH/Oregon Public Broadcasting Artificial intelligence tools are helping Oregon wildlife researchers study hard-to-reach threatened species like the marbled murrelet. Researchers with Oregon State University and the U.S. Forest Service collected millions of hours of audio from federal forests in Washington and Oregon between 2018 and 2022. “We cannot physically review all the […]