By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com Russell and Paula Hagfors get a free place to park their trailer, electricity, sewer and garbage service. In the winter they live in a gated community with […]
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Yachats looks to raise its lodging tax to 10 percent
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com The Yachats City Council is proposing to tack a percentage point onto the city’s lodging tax to capture more money from increased tourism to help pay for […]
Yachats Fire District struggles to contain cost of new station
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com Problems with the site of the Yachats Rural Fire Protection District’s new $8.3 million station along U.S. Highway 101 have forced the district to make dozens of […]
Little Log Church in 1927 – or was it 1929 or 1930?
The Rev. Rolla Phelps and his wife, Stella, sit on the steps of the Little Log Church in Yachats. Records show they purchased the property in 1929 for $200 but […]
Unionization vote complicates Yachats Fire raises
The board of the Yachats Rural Fire Protection District on Wednesday approved 3.5 percent cost-of-living pay increases for four employees retroactive to Dec. 1. But anticipated raises for the department’s […]
Wave energy expert describes project to Yachats audience
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com If OSU builds it, will they come? Burke Hales and Oregon State University are betting $50 million in federal and state money that someone will. Hales is […]
Youth program wins $10,000 grant
The Yachats Youth & Family Activities Program has received a $10,000 grant from Samaritan Health Services as part of the hospital group’s 2019 distribution of $450,000 to social service groups […]
Yachats awards 3-year contract for web makeover
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com The city of Yachats should have a new website by July. After almost a year of study and some controversy, the city of Yachats has signed a […]
City contracts with new planner
The city of Yachats has contracted with a new planner following the Dec. 31 retirement of Larry Lewis. David Mattison of Tillamook started the one-day-a-week contract position Jan. 8. In […]
Commons floor replacement hits snag
Replacing the floor of the Yachats Commons’ multipurpose room hit a snag this week, stopping work on the project until March. As contractors removed the top flooring in the room […]