Lincoln County patches parts of Ocean View Drive so it can be repaved this month

June 6, 2019

Lincoln County road crews spent three days this week repairing deteriorated parts of Ocean View Drive so it can be repaved this month and eventually turned over to the city of Yachats. Ocean View might be the longest stretch of local road in Yachats, stretching from Marine Drive in the north, south through Yachats State Park and then east along

Experience those lowest tides this week? They don’t return now until July 3

June 6, 2019

Did you get a good look this week at the first in the three-month series of the year’s lowest tides? While they remain sort-of low for the next few weeks, the next series of lowest tides won’t come for another month. Starting this week, Yachats and the central Oregon coast are experiencing their lowest tides of the year during June,

Toledo High student killed in truck accident Wednesday near Siletz

June 6, 2019

A student from Toledo High School was killed about 5:45 p.m. Wednesday, June 5, when he was thrown from a truck during a crash on Logsden Road near Siltez. The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office identified the boy as Robert Kirkland, a sophomore at Toledo High. The Lincoln County School District sent a trauma team to the school Thursday to help

New Yachats fire station may be finished three months ahead of schedule

June 5, 2019

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com The Yachats Rural Fire Protection District may get its new home three months earlier than expected. In its latest construction schedule to the Yachats Fire District Board, DSL Builders of Salem said it expects to finish the $8.3 million main fire station on the north edge of Yachats by Sept. 23 – three months early. “We have

Depoe Bay man dies in Highway 101 crash Sunday afternoon

June 3, 2019

Jackie Dean, 53, of Depoe Bay, was killed about 3:50 p.m. Sunday, June 2 when his car collided with an oncoming vehicle on U.S. Highway 101 near Beverly Beach State Park north of Newport. Oregon State Police said Monday that Dean was northbound in his Chrysler Sebring when it hit the highway guardrail, crossed into the opposite lane and struck