By GARRET JAROS/YachatsNews YACHATS – With sharpened pencils and a well-oiled abacus, the Yachats finance committee Tuesday divined a path for the city to better manage tax collection while also opening the municipal wallet to help pay for a new library. City manager Bobbi Price will take the committee’s recommendations to the city council […]
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Soil tests for Yachats library project throw a monkey wrench into $1 million expansion plans
By CHERYL ROMANO/YachatsNews YACHATS — The plan all along had been to renovate and expand the 50-year-old Yachats Library on West Seventh Street with a $1.09 million makeover. But soil tests have dictated a “course correction”, in the words of one project leader. In early September, Foundation Engineering of Corvallis discovered it had to […]
Yachats nonprofit receives largest private grant in city history to help fund expansion, remodel of library
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews YACHATS – A small but very active Yachats nonprofit has received a $250,000 grant to help pay for the expansion and remodel of the city library. The award from The Ford Family Foundation of Roseburg to Friends of Yachats Library is believed to be the largest single private foundation award in the […]
Three days of craft or book sales begin Friday in Yachats
YACHATS — The first spring weekend in Yachats is blooming with two popular arts and crafts fairs, plus a big book sale to benefit the Yachats Library. In all, beginning Friday there will be 38 hours of browsing and shopping fun. Yachats Ladies Club Spring Crafts Bazaar, 286 W. Third St., 10 a.m. to 3 […]
City halts Yachats Library expansion, seeks to leverage new $150,000 donation
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com The Yachats Library Commission wants to step back from an immediate expansion of the city library after the pledge of a $150,000 donation by longtime resident Marguerite Petersen. On Wednesday, the City Council agreed, barely. After months of study and preparing plans for the expansion, the commission and council were prepared […]
City unveils drawings for library expansion as commission reaffirms support
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com The city of Yachats unveiled an engineer’s drawing of the proposed expansion and remodel of the library building Thursday, likely bringing to close years of debate over moving it, expanding it or doing nothing. Facilities manager Heather Hoen showed the drawing and building schematics to the Library Commission, saying the city would […]
Eugene performer charms kids at Yachats Library
Guitarist and children’s performer Michael Bradley of Eugene had pre-schoolers from the Yachats Youth & Family Activities Program on their feet Friday morning during a performance at the Yachats Library. The library offers story times to the pre-school twice a month on Thursday mornings for the youngest children and Friday mornings for the older pre-school […]