By KATHLEEN O’CONNOR/YachatsNews William Wordsworth, Emily Dickinson, John Keats are some of Jordan Fernandez’ favorite poets. His favorite poem is “Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey” by […]
By KATHLEEN O’CONNOR/YachatsNews Those fishermen and crabbers in kayaks on Alsea Bay look so precarious. How do they stay upright when they have a fish on or are pulling […]
By KATHLEEN O’CONNOR/YachatsNews “Never enough!” That’s how Larry and Linda Occhipinti answer when someone asks how many animals they own. Occhipinti is a veterinarian who lives along Oregon Highway […]
By KATHLEEN O’CONNOR/YachatsNews Chip Russell believes he and his partner, Nicole Frederickson, purchased the last home in Waldport that sold for less than $200,000 when they retired in 2017. […]
By KATHLEEN O’CONNOR/YachatsNews A tough guy. A softie. The personality of Brian McEneny, owner of Brian McEneny Woodcarving Gallery in Seal Rock, is a combination of sensitive and rough-and-tumble. […]
By KATHLEEN O’CONNOR/YachatsNews Oral Gill of Waldport is adamant that one of his most important personal lessons is that as a young adult he didn’t listen to his friends […]
By KATHLEEN O’CONNOR/YachatsNews For the past four years Sean and Erin Geary have been intentionally building a particular kind of lifestyle for themselves and their three daughters. The Gearys […]
By KATHLEEN O’CONNOR/YachatsNews Some people are born athletes and born to love sports. Some people are born to love people. Jack Boothe, the head football coach and GEAR UP […]
By KATHLEEN O’CONNOR/YachatsNews WALDPORT — Nonstop, complicated, intense — but always with rewarding moments. That is how each day is for Scott Ellefson, managing pharmacist at Hi-School Pharmacy in […]
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews Doug Yunker has been a small town paperboy, conscientious objector, Peace Corps volunteer, social worker and college professor and administrator. Now, the soon-to-be 82-year-old resident of […]
