State of Oregon agrees it cannot enforce real estate “love letters” law, pays Bend firm $60,000

May 9, 2022

By Oregon Capital Chronicle The state of Oregon won’t keep fighting to enforce a first-in-the-nation ban on real estate “love letters” and will pay a Bend real estate group more than $60,000, according to a draft settlement filed in a federal court in Portland. Chief U.S. District Judge Marco Hernández in March temporarily blocked the enforcement of Oregon’s 2021 ban on Realtors

Have you seen Ronnie? Family and community search for woman who lived in her car the past year around Yachats and Waldport

May 9, 2022

By CHERYL ROMANO/YachatsNews.com YACHATS – A woman who spent the last year living in her car in and around Yachats abandoned the vehicle nearly three weeks ago, worrying family and friends concerned for her well being. Ronnie Deleski, 42, was a common sight around Yachats and Waldport living in her small, blue Toyota Scion stuffed with her personal belongings.

Yachats council gives unanimous approval to seek engineering design and costs for Ocean View Drive boardwalk

May 9, 2022

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com YACHATS – The Yachats City Council has given the go-ahead for the next step on what could be a $950,000 project to build a 350-foot boardwalk along Ocean View Drive overlooking the Yachats River. The council voted unanimously and enthusiastically Thursday to seek and negotiate detailed engineering designs for the boardwalk. Those designs will be used

Waldport High School wins third straight forestry championship, teacher named natural resources educator of the year

May 9, 2022

WALDPORT – It’s a three-peat for the forestry program at Waldport High School, which also had its instructor honored as natural resources educator of the year for Oregon. Some 38 students in the high school’s forestry program competed in the Oregon Future Natural Resource Leaders state competition April 29-30 at the Hopkins demonstration forest in Oregon City. Of those,

YYFAP’s annual fundraiser is 2-5 p.m. Sunday to benefit its children’s programs

May 9, 2022

YACHATS – Three hours of family fun is on tap Sunday with a local non-profit’s festival and fundraiser following the Yachats Farmer’s Market. When the market on West Fourth Street closes at 2 p.m., the afternoon keeps going with a three-hour event at the pavilion behind the Commons to benefit the Yachats Youth and Family Activities Program. The event features

With federal investment, seven Oregon highways — including U.S. 101 and 20 — to get charging stations every 50 miles

May 7, 2022

The Oregon Department of Transportation will invest in a growing network of electric vehicle charging stations across seven major highways (National Park Service) By ALEX BAUMHARDT/Oregon Capital Chronicle An electric vehicle charging station could soon exist every 50 miles on some of Oregon’s main highways — including U.S. Highway 101 and U.S. Highway 20 in Lincoln County. The Oregon Department

For the first time in years, Lincoln County has competition for ambulance services pitting a longtime, local company against a national provider

May 5, 2022

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com For the first time in at least two decades, there is competition to provide ambulance service for most of Lincoln County. American Medical Response/Northwest, an arm of a $4.3 billion nationwide medical transportation company, is challenging longtime provider Pacific West Ambulance for a five-year contract to serve four areas of the county. The county is divided

Yachats Fire budget committee wrestles with bare bones budget for 2022-23 which will require another “bridge” loan to make ends meet

May 5, 2022

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com YACHATS – The Yachats Rural Fire Protection District will have to take out another bank loan this summer to help make ends meet, following the defeat of a proposed tax levy by voters last November. The need for a “bridge” loan – which the district has done for the past four years – came up during

Oregon Health Authority approves seven more counties — including Lincoln — for drug treatment programs

May 5, 2022

By NIGEL JAQUISS/Willamette Week The glacial process of getting a massive chunk of new funding into Oregon’s substance abuse disorder treatment industry is grinding forward. The Oregon Health Authority announced Thursday that the Measure 110 Oversight Accountability Council has now approved applications from providers in 21 of Oregon’s 36 counties, including Lincoln County. The council’s approval is a key step

Regardless of potential U.S. Supreme Court ruling, abortion rights are protected in Oregon

May 5, 2022

Demonstrators rallied outside the U.S. Supreme Court on Dec. 1, 2021, as justices heard arguments in a Mississippi case that seeks to overturn Roe v. Wade. (Jane Norman/States Newsroom) By JULIA SHUMWAY/Oregon Capital Chronicle If the U.S. Supreme Court’s final decision on abortion rights resembles a draft opinion leaked Monday night, women in more than half the country could lose access