OSU hopes to team with 5 Oregon tribes on forest restoration projects

September 26, 2022

Oregon State University plans to team with five Oregon tribes on a three-year, $5 million forest restoration effort to improve the resilience of woodlands to climate change using Native American practices. The U.S. Department of the Interior is funding the $5 million pilot project, which will include collecting the seeds of culturally and ecologically significant plants on Bureau of Land

Legislators told that Oregon needs thousands of construction, government workers to close housing gap

September 25, 2022

By MIKE McINALLY/Oregon Capital Chronicle Oregon’s housing shortage is worse today than it was before the start of the Covid pandemic, a state economist told lawmakers last week during a hearing to discuss ways of easing the statewide crunch. The shortage of affordable housing has a big impact: Oregon has one of the highest homeless rates in the U.S., with

Looking for a Covid vaccine booster? Here’s a list of upcoming public clinics

September 24, 2022

Looking for the new bivalent booster shot for Covid protection? Lincoln County Public Health and a variety of other organizations – including local pharmacies – are offering more opportunities to get one beginning this week. Here’s a list of public clinics: The Oregon Health Authority is sponsoring a high-volume clinic from 1-6 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday, Sept. 27-28 at the

Oregon State Police/Newport activity log Sept. 14-20

September 23, 2022

OREGON STATE POLICE DAILY MEDIA/DESK LOG SP22247379 09/14/2022 10:24 Officer #44704 KATSIKIS, KELLY Citation – Violation Location 101, Mile post 137 137 NB, LINCOLN OR USA Narrative Summary A vehicle was towed to impound after being stopped for illegal display of license plate and an investigation revealed the operator was driving while suspended violation and driving uninsured. Rowley’s towing responded to impound the vehicle.

Oregon health officials, nurses ambulance companies tell legislators that lack of staff in hospitals is harming some patients

September 23, 2022

Emergency rooms, like the one at Oregon Health & Science University, are packed. (Christine Torres Hicks/OHSU) By LYNNE TERRY/Oregon Capital Chronicle People in Oregon are dying as a result of the state’s hospital staffing shortage. Patrick Allen, director of the Oregon Health Authority, told a state legislative committee on Thursday that people in need of intensive care often have to

Recent Cape Perpetua hook-and-line surveys indicate that fish in marine reserve area are healthy, thriving

September 22, 2022

By DANA TIMS/YachatsNews.com Roy Lowe wasn’t sure what to expect as the state-chartered fishing boat he was aboard recently hovered over a rocky reef 160 feet below the surface off Cape Perpetua just south of Yachats. Lowe and nine other volunteers, all receiving specific instructions from Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife staff on the boat, were participants in

One dollar at a time, guests at two Yachats motels are contributing to collaborative’s work and 804 Trail projects

September 22, 2022

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com YACHATS – Almost every time a visitor checks out of the Overleaf Lodge or Fireside Motel, they leave a little behind. Not only the views of the rocky shoreline below the motels or the strolls along the 804 Trail out front. But nearly every time a guest leaves they also add $1 per day to two

Growing economic development nonprofit moving from Newport to community college building in Waldport

September 22, 2022

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com WALDPORT – As it begins implementing a $1 million federal grant, the Economic Development Alliance of Lincoln County is moving from a tiny space in Newport to Oregon Coast Community College’s south county center in Waldport. The three members of the nonprofit economic development organization plan to be in the building Monday as they complete the

Eight social service agencies in Lincoln County will be getting $4.65 million to launch treatment programs funded by Measure 110

September 22, 2022

By DANA TIMS/YachatsNews.com Millions of dollars generated by a controversial, first-of-its-kind Oregon ballot measure will soon be heading to Lincoln County service providers to help cope with substance abuse, homelessness and related issues. Lincoln County, working with eight local service agencies, is slated to receive $4.65 million from Measure 110, which Oregon voters approved in November 2020 diverts state

Disturbance at Waldport gas station Wednesday lands Yachats man in jail

September 22, 2022

WALDPORT – A 48-year-old Yachats man is in the Lincoln County jail on $100,000 bond after disturbance Wednesday at the Waldport Shell station and a “high-risk” stop later in a Yachats neighborhood. Christopher D. Reaves Jr. is charged with strangulation, disorderly conduct, harassment, assault and attempting to elude a police officer. According to documents in Lincoln County Circuit Court, Reaves