City sets up formal process to determine who manages Yachats Farmers Market

April 5, 2019

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com The city of Yachats stepped in Friday to formalize the process for operating the Yachats Farmers Market after efforts by two groups hoping to organize it apparently spiraled into confusion and acrimony. The deadline to submit applications to operate a “vendor-run market” is noon Friday, April 12, City Manager Shannon Beaucaire announced Friday. The city will

Yachats council will begin discussing some sort of ban on single-use plastics

April 5, 2019

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com The Yachats City Council in May will begin working on an ordinance that could prohibit single-use plastic bags and possibly plastic containers in the city. Council members discussed their views on plastics during their meeting Wednesday, and agreed to begin working on an ordinance for Yachats should the Oregon Legislature adjourn in July without creating a statewide

Yachats Brewing (architect concept drawing)

Tempers flare in long running Yachats Brewing permit issue

April 5, 2019

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com The owner of Yachats Brewing and Farmstore says he plans to re-submit long-awaited plans to Lincoln County next week in order to get building permits for his businesses open for almost five years without them. But the submittal by Nathan Bernard – three months after they were originally promised – came after a loud and profane blowup

Yachats council wavers on forming business advisory committee

April 4, 2019

It may be awhile – if ever — before the Yachats City Council forms a special committee of business owners to help determine how to spend lodging taxes collected by the city. The idea of a committee came up in February after the council proposed increasing the city’s lodging tax by one percentage point to 10 percent. That idea was

Yachats author’s ‘Saving Big Creek’ book a labor of love and persistence

April 4, 2019

By ELAINE WATKINS/YachatsNews.com It’s a clear sunny Sunday as Andrea Scharf walks her collie, Rio, up Big Creek Road. “All those trees would have been cut down if they’d built the resort,” she says, pointing to a stand of hemlock, Douglas fir and spruce. A light mist blows off the ocean, and shafts of sunlight spear through the old-growth forest.

YachatsNews.com now accepting advertising

April 4, 2019

To readers of YachatsNews.com You may have noticed something new on the homepage of YachatsNews.com this week – an advertisement (for an electric car show, no less!). When I launched YachatsNews.com in January I did not know how the community would receive it. But I felt there should be a strong demand and appreciation for straightforward community journalism. From what

Deputies find apparent murder-suicide in South Beach trailer park

April 3, 2019

A 64-year-old Tillamook woman apparently killed an older relative during the last several days before she shot and killed herself in an RV park in the South Beach area of Newport, Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office said Wednesday. Deputies went to Whaler’s Rest RV & Camping Resort in South Beach early Wednesday to check on two guests after park staff reported

March rainfall in Yachats is lowest in 10 years

April 1, 2019

Yachats got just over three inches of rain in March, the lowest total for that month in the last 10 years. Rainfall measured at the city’s wastewater treatment plant on West Seventh Street for March was 3.06 inches. But in February, Yachats got the second-most rainfall in the past 10 years with more than 12 inches. March is usually the

Cleanup crews finish work early Friday on milk spill south of Yachats

March 29, 2019

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com Contractors early Friday finished cleaning up a 5-day-old 2,900 gallon milk spill on the east side of U.S. Highway 101 just south of Yachats. The operation started at 8 p.m. Thursday and was finished at 3 a.m. Friday. NWFF Environmental of Philomath and its contractors removed a foot of dirt from the 30-by-90-foot area, spread lime

Organizers seek artists for annual Yachats banner project

March 28, 2019

Michael Guerriero is looking for some painters. Guerriero, a Yachats artist, is organizing other artists to paint 40 banners to hang on U.S. Highway 101 light poles in downtown Yachats and elsewhere around town. Artists must complete their work by May 29. The 23- by 42-inch banners will be displayed from mid June through September. After they are taken down