Yachats Mushroom Festival returns Friday with full weekend slate of walks, talks — and dining

October 13, 2022

By DANA TIMS/YachatsNews.com YACHATS — After a two-year, Covid-imposed hiatus, the Yachats Mushroom Festival returns Friday for a three-day run that’s expected to draw considerable numbers of fungi-lovers. Mycology experts from around the state are participating in the event, which includes educational talks, guided walks, workshops and mushroom identification tables. “This is a great opportunity to come out for

As voting elsewhere comes under attack from partisans, Oregon’s election officials say decades-old mail system has many checks and balances

October 12, 2022

Elections officials will start sending out ballots next Wednesday. (Ron Cooper/Oregon Capital Chronicle) By MIKE McINALLY/Oregon Capital Chronicle Ben Morris likes to say voting is in Oregon’s DNA. “We were the first state to create the ballot initiative process over 100 years ago,” said Morris, communications director for Oregon Secretary of State Shemia Fagan. “We were among the first states

Forum for Yachats mayor and council candidates is Sunday

October 11, 2022

YACHATS – Yachats Community Presbyterian Church is sponsoring a candidate’s forum Sunday for the public to hear from five people running for Yachats mayor and city council positions in the Nov. 8 general election. Ballots go out to voters Oct. 19. The forum is 2-3:30 p.m. at the church, 360 W. Seventh St. and will be moderated by Pastor Bob

First Lincoln County “economic summit” is Oct. 20 in Newport

October 11, 2022

Discussion panels focusing on work, recreation and diversity will highlight the first Lincoln County Economic Summit on Thursday, Oct. 20 in Newport. The summit, a collaboration between the Economic Development Alliance of Lincoln County and the Greater Newport Chamber of Commerce, is intended to emphasize the reasons why people choose to live, work and play in Lincoln County. “Make no

After years of cleaning 356 bones from massive Blue whale, OSU seeks $225,000 to help create display in Newport

October 11, 2022

By LORI TOBIAS/for The Oregonian NEWPORT — Most everyone knows the story of Oregon’s infamous exploding whale. Now there’s another whale destined for fame — this time with a decidedly brighter outcome. Dead sea animals of all kinds wash ashore on Oregon beaches. The often large, rotting carcasses can be a bit of a nuisance – hence the unfortunate

Alaska fishery officials cancel Bristol Bay king and snow crab harvests this winter

October 10, 2022

By The Seattle Times Alaska officials have canceled the fall Bristol Bay red king crab harvest, and in a first-ever move, also scuttled the winter harvest of smaller snow crab. The move is a double whammy to a fleet from Alaska, Washington and Oregon pursuing Bering Sea crab in harvests that as recently as 2016 grossed $280 million. “I am

Flying out of Eugene? Airport loses two routes, but gains one

October 10, 2022

EUGENE – Travelers who use the Eugene Airport are losing two routes but gaining another. United Airlines has ended service between Eugene and O’Hare International Airport in Chicago. The route had opened in June 2019 as a seasonal route for the summer. United flights between Eugene and Los Angeles International Airport, which started in March 2019, will be suspended starting

Deadline looming for Otis fire survivors to win a new home — for free

October 7, 2022

The Echo Mountain Complex Fire, which tore through the Lincoln County community of Otis two years ago, charred at least 2,500 acres. By the time the flames were out, the number of houses lost totaled nearly 300. Now, in a partnership involving groups helping to rebuild the town, at least one family that lost their primary residence in the blaze

Owners of Gibson Farms in Lincoln County learn to take advantage of location, while trying to fight off blueberry-eating pigeons

October 6, 2022

By MATEUSZ PERKOWSKI/Oregon Capital Press SILETZ — As an island of agriculture in a sea of timber production, the owners of Gibson Farms have learned to take advantage of the operation’s distinctive circumstances. A hook-shaped bend in the Siletz River has blessed the 200-acre farm with a rare stretch of flat, open ground in an otherwise forested, mountainous landscape.

Sigler pleads guilty to manslaughter and burglaries in 2020 killing of Mark Campbell, sentenced to 27 years in prison

October 6, 2022

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com NEWPORT – One by one they walked up to face the man who had just admitted Tuesday to killing Mark Campbell of Waldport nearly two years earlier. Gone was their brother, their son, their husband. Fighting though tears, a sister, a mother, a brother and wife stood six feet from Jack Sigler, 54, who pleaded guilty