Rain totals and temperatures set records for May in the Yachats area

June 2, 2022

The Yachats area had a record amount of rain in May and it was so cold that the number of days – two – that reached 60 degrees were the same as the months of January and February, according to local weather watchers. New rainfall records for the month were set up and down the Yachats river, north of Yachats

Recall election underway for 2 Central Coast Fire board members is about district’s direction — and whether chief, staff and volunteers stay

June 2, 2022

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com WALDPORT — The call came at 11:43 a.m. Saturday – a woman near Range Drive in Waldport was struggling to breathe. Central Oregon Coast Fire & Rescue firefighter/paramedic Jo Bartling and firefighter/EMT John Townley got to her house in less than 4 minutes and asked for backup from the Yachats and Seal Rock fire departments. Shortly

Central Lincoln PUD will raise electricity rates by 3 percent in July

June 2, 2022

For the first time in three years, Central Lincoln Peoples Utility District customers are going to see an increase in their electric bills starting in July. The CLPUD’s five-member board in May approved a 3 percent rate increase for its residential customers – resulting in an average increase of $1.17 per month. Electricity will cost the utility’s 34,569 residential accounts

A fisherman holds up his Chinook salmon catch.

Mid-coast salmon fishery this summer and fall not affected by ODFW’s closure of some rivers to Chinook catch

June 1, 2022

By Oregon Capital Chronicle and YachatsNews Due to years of drought and poor ocean conditions, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife will restrict fishing for wild Chinook salmon in northern and southern parts of the coast from Aug. 1 through the end of the year. Numbers of wild Chinook in several coastal tributaries are forecast to be

Oregon lets schools ban guns on campus, but few have made that choice; Lincoln County School District banned them in February

June 1, 2022

By Dirk VanderHart/Oregon Public Broadcasting Oregon lawmakers last year gave every public school district in Oregon the option to ban guns from their premises. So far, most districts have declined to take them up on the offer. Since a change to Oregon law in September, just 13% of the state’s public school districts have opted to close an exemption that allows

Coastal gardening tips available during open house Sunday in Yachats

June 1, 2022

YACHATS — Have questions about gardening on the coast? Want to nurture your joints while you nurture your plants? The answers will be available from master gardeners from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday at the Yachats Demonstration & Community Garden at the corner of West Seventh Street and Driftwood Lane during an open house and plant clinic. On Sunday,