Many Lincoln County schools have attendance problems — but programs in Waldport (and now Toledo) are tackling the issue

November 9, 2023

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews Getting to class by 8 o’clock each morning is no simple task for Waldport High School senior Airyanna Paden. Paden, 17, grew up in Yachats, but her family moved to Eddyville this year when they bought a house there. She’s in the car with her mother, Jennifer, and brother, Connor, 14, by 7 a.m. The first

Central Coast Food Web wins $477,000 federal grant to help develop local markets for local seafood

November 9, 2023

BY GARRET JAROS/YachatsNews NEWPORT – Tucked in a nondescript building on the shore of Yaquina Bay is a new hub of innovation intent on transforming the local seafood market. Central Coast Food Web and its Yaquina Lab is a non-profit founded specifically to help local fisheries and other food producers on the central coast bring their products to local

Yachats artist will speak on her work and artistic life Thursday at Newport’s “Tea and Talk”

November 9, 2023

By Oregon Coast TODAY NEWPORT — The speaker who will spill the tea at the Tea & Talk on Thursday, Nov. 16, is one of the artists in the current “Varied Perspectives” show at the Newport Visual Arts Center. Judith Toler of Yachats, who prefers to go by Jude, is originally from Portsmouth on the south coast of England.

Oregon Sea Grant selects Yachats resident for new education position at Hatfield Marine Science Center

November 9, 2023

By TIFFANY WOODS/Oregon Sea Grant Oregon Sea Grant has appointed Tracy Crews of Yachats to a new position of associate director of education to oversee its K-12 marine education program, the Oregon Coast STEM Hub, and the public education wing of the Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport. For the past 15 years Crews has led the marine education

Local Secret Santas looking to help senior citizens this holiday season

November 9, 2023

Senior citizens who are without friends or family this season and would welcome some extra cheer can receive a free holiday gift bag with just a telephone call. Thanks to the work of Yachats’ Amy Parker, the “South County Elves’ Secret Santa” drive will, for the fourth year, deliver a wrapped gift bag to eligible seniors in south Lincoln County.

OSU names Southern Oregon professor its first director of tribal relations

November 9, 2023

CORVALLIS – Chance White Eyes, an assistant professor of Native American studies at Southern Oregon University and an alumnus of Oregon State University, has been named the inaugural director of tribal relations at Oregon State. He starts Dec. 15. “I am excited to return to Oregon State University,” White Eyes said. “This institution is in a privileged position to serve

Yachats plans second planning session Thursday on energy, emergency grant

November 9, 2023

YACHATS — The public is invited to attend an open house from 6-8 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 16 to share opinions about the city’s plans around incorporating renewable energy into a self-sustaining civic campus. The Oregon Department of Energy awarded Yachats a $100,000 grant to help plan and study incorporating renewable energy and emergency preparedness to help reduce risks to the

Lincoln County’s main mushroom group brings annual show back to Depoe Bay on Saturday

November 9, 2023

By GRETCHEN AMMERMAN/Oregon Coast TODAY You’re wandering through the forest, your eyes alert to a particular color, shape, even just a disturbance on the forest floor that could indicate the presence of your prey just under the duff. You arrive home exhausted but happy, with edible treasures to add to that night’s meal and a few new species to

Habitat for Humanity opens applications for two homes it plans to build in downtown Waldport

November 9, 2023

WALDPORT — Habitat for Humanity of Lincoln County has opened the application process for families to help build and own two homes it will construct in Waldport. Ground breaking in Waldport is expected to begin next summer with completion in late 2025. The housing nonprofit received a $360,000 state grant this year to help build two homes on property

Search and rescue team finds lost mushroom hunter near Florence

November 8, 2023

FLORENCE — A woman who got separated from her boyfriend while picking mushrooms near Herman Peak Road northeast of Florence was rescued Tuesday by the Lane County Search and Rescue Team. The sheriff’s office received a report Monday afternoon of a man who hiked out of the woods to a house in the Mercer Lake area. He said he had