Name: Yachats “open mic” night
Start: 2025-11-16T18:00:00-08:00
End: 2025-11-16T19:30:00-08:00
Location: Yachats Community Presbyterian Church

New rules for drone use along Oregon coast and state parks in the works for summer of 2022

November 7, 2021

By ZACH URNESS/Salem Statesman-Journal Love or hate them, drones in Oregon’s outdoors are here to stay. But for the first time, Oregon officials plan to craft rules that govern where unmanned aircraft can fly with new rules expected to be in place by next summer. A recently-formed rules committee will consider where drone pilots can take off and land at

Democrats in Oregon delegation applaud infrastructure passage, lone Republican silent

November 7, 2021

Rep. Kurt Schrader, D-Oregon, says the federal infrastructure package will have profound impacts in Oregon. (Wikimedia Commons) By LES ZAITZ/Oregon Capital Chronicle Much of Oregon’s Congressional delegation sees nothing but good news for the state in the passage of the federal infrastructure legislation. The U.S. House on Friday passed the $1.2 trillion package to fix roads, airports, railways and broadband

Yachats council OKs church request to unlock city pavilion at night and to allow homeless to sleep there during winter

November 7, 2021

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com The Yachats City Council has voted unanimously to open the pavilion behind the Commons on nights with bad weather to allow homeless people to sleep in a dry place. The proposal to the council was made by Yachats Community Presbyterian Church Pastor Bob Barrett and two community members, who will handle opening, closing and any cleanup.

Yachats council votes 4-1 Thursday to negotiate contract with Gretchen Dubie to become its next city manager

November 4, 2021

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com The Yachats City Council voted 4-1 Thursday to negotiate a contract with Gretchen Dubie, the former head of a large nonprofit organization in Eugene, to become its next city manager. After multiple interviews, two meetings with the public and six executive sessions during its three-month search, councilors chose Dubie over Helen Anderson, a longtime Yachats resident

Chronic lack of substitute teachers — and no solution in sight — forces Lincoln County School District to cancel classes Friday

November 4, 2021

By DANA TIMS/YachatsNews.com A severe shortage of substitute teachers has Lincoln County’s schools scrambling to find answers – and bodies. So far, however, there are no easy solutions to help teachers and administrators cover what all acknowledge is a huge staffing problem. “The school district is fully aware of how challenging it has been,” Lincoln County School District Superintendent

Police ask for help solving two Lincoln County poaching incidents

November 4, 2021

Oregon State Police are asking help in solving two recent poaching incidents in Lincoln County. Wildlife troopers said Thursday that a person found a Blacktail doe that had been shot and left to waste about 150 yards north of Euchre Creek Road in Newport on Oct. 28 The person had first seen the deer alive two days earlier. Police are

Lincoln County begins working on implementing vacation rental phase out in unincorporated neighborhoods, sheriff sends notices and opponents vow to fight on

November 4, 2021

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com Two days after voters overwhelmingly approved a ballot measure phasing out vacation rentals in unincorporated neighborhoods of Lincoln County, discussion has started how to implement the new rules, the sheriff sent out notices warning license holders of the big changes, and a lodging company vowed to continue its opposition. At the same time, the organization

Annual Cape Perpetua symposium is Thursday, Nov. 18

November 4, 2021

Registration is open for the 9th Annual Cape Perpetua Land-Sea Symposium, which is scheduled for 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 18 and again this year will be held online. Presenters for the virtual event include Mark Hixon, talking about Coastal Connectivity: John Muir was Right; Dorothy Horn, speaking about the impacts of microplastics on nearshore marine organisms; Scott Heppell, discussing the

Waldport High School’s 8-man football team wins first OSAA playoff game in 42 years Friday night, now heads to Lost River

November 4, 2021

By JACK HEFFERNAN/for YachatsNews.com WALDPORT – When 27 members of Waldport High’s football team ran onto the field Friday night, it was be the school’s first state playoff appearance since before many of them were born. But a playoff win? Not many of their parents were alive when the team last won a playoff game. After decades of losing,

First of the winter season’s “king tides” hit this weekend

November 4, 2021

The annual winter high tides – called king tides – resume Friday. In Oregon, king tides occur three months in the winter and three times during the summer when the Earth, moon and sun align to produce the highest tides of the year – ranging from 8-9 feet on the central Oregon coast. These tides are 2-3 feet higher