January 2024 - Page 6

By GARRET JAROS/YachatsNews NEWPORT – It was all hands on deck at the Newport Recreation Center on Sunday after powerful winds out of the east Saturday felled trees that knocked out power lines as temperatures dipped below freezing. The center’s Sonia Graham helped coordinate a collaborative emergency response of Lincoln County and Newport officials, recreation center staff and volunteers.

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews It’s 52 degrees in the garage where Julie and Dennis Wehling have been holed up since Saturday. And that’s with the wood stove blazing. That’s better than the 44 degrees in the kitchen of their adjacent triple-wide manufactured home. “We’re cold, but we’re OK,” Julie Wehling said Monday in a phone interview from her home in

By LORI TOBIAS/for YachatsNews NEWPORT — Friday afternoon, we’d arrived home from the Willamette Valley, where I’d had a doctor’s appointment. I’d watched weather reports for days, gauging the timing of our drive and a coming storm. Now home, I relaxed with the knowledge that we didn’t have to be anywhere. That night, as the snow began in Corvallis, I

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews Much of Lincoln County was hit with another series of power outages Tuesday afternoon when two large Central Lincoln Peoples Utility District transmission lines went out affecting more than 19,000 residential and business customers. Central Lincoln found the causes of both outages – ice-laden lines thawing and touching another line – and were undertaking repairs to restore