By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com YACHATS – The Yachats Library Commission has re-started its effort to significantly expand the city’s 48-year-old library building, seeking a designer for the interior and soon a builder for a project estimated to cost up to $600,000. The city has posted notices and sent out inquiries seeking an interior designer to […]
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Yachats “Black Lives Matter” demonstrators discuss future of Saturday protests and other ways to fight racism
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com YACHATS – Jonni Prince and Dave Cowden have been standing along U.S. Highway 101 in downtown Yachats each Saturday since May 30, 2020. That’s the Saturday after George Floyd was killed by police in Minneapolis, one of whom has been convicted of second-degree murder and manslaughter. Now, after 81 weeks, the […]
Yachats Parks & Commons Commission asks council to commit to $400,000 repairs of city-owned Little Log Church this summer
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com YACHATS – After a warning that the Little Log Church could literally fall down if nothing is done, the Yachats Parks & Commons Commission voted unanimously Tuesday to recommend the City Council commit to replacing it this summer. And, after hearing how a church support group apparently missed out on a […]
Despite some initial fears, homeless use of pavilion behind Yachats Commons is so far largely uneventful
By CHERYL ROMANO/YachatsNews.com YACHATS — When the City of Yachats opened its pavilion last month to the homeless on bad-weather nights, some Yachats residents warned of drug needles, trash and crime. That hasn’t been the case. “We have not seen any of that,” said Pastor Bob Barrett of Yachats Community Presbyterian Church. A month […]
After a crazy summer, hospitality veterans look for a calmer winter but with continued worries over staffing, housing and supply chain
By CHERYL ROMANO/YachatsNews.com As she surveys her bustling restaurant on a pre-Thanksgiving Friday, Rosetta Dimiceli is grateful that her staff is about to get some time off. “The summer was so crazy. We were so busy, we could hardly handle it,” says the owner of the Salty Dawg Bar & Grill in Waldport and […]
Organizers cancel Yachats’ July 4 parade and fireworks — and it looks like Labor Day weekend is out too
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com Fourth of July will be a lot quieter in Yachats this year. The Yachats Chamber of Commerce announced Wednesday that it has canceled the come-one-come all “la de da Parade” scheduled for noon Saturday, July 4 because of the coronavirus pandemic. And the Yachats Fireworks Committee says it is postponing — […]
Oregon coast clears out as Lincoln County commissioners, seven cities ban motel and vacation rental for visitors
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com It’s not your usual Oregon coast spring break week. After swarming to parts of the coast last weekend, visitors to the coast returned home this week as Lincoln County and its seven cities joined Tillamook and Clatsop counties in banning motel and vacation rentals for short-term recreational use. The emergency order […]
Coronavirus wipes out Spring Break on the Oregon coast, devastating businesses and threatening workers
By DANA TIMS/YachatsNews.com Shuttered restaurants. Closed gift shops and visitors’ centers. Hotel, motel and other lodging reservations cancelled by the hundreds, all over fears of a coronavirus pandemic. Welcome to spring break 2020 on the Oregon coast. Most years, spring break is the time when tourism-related businesses begin ramping up for the summer high season. […]
Yachats-based Sweet Homes Rentals buys second building in downtown Waldport
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com Sweet Home Rentals, the Yachats-based vacation rental company, is continuing its expansion into Waldport with the purchase of a downtown building containing three businesses and three apartments. The purchase includes the area’s only public laundromat, which Sweet Homes will manage during the day and use at night to do laundry for […]
Yachats records 14.52 inches of rain in January
Going to state the obvious here – it was very wet in Yachats in January. The city received 14.52 inches of rain last month, the second-highest amount for the month in the past 10 years. It was also double the rainfall in December. The 14.52 inches was the highest since 19.12 inches were measured at […]