January 2024 - Page 6

Individual property fee cut from Oregon wildfire funding proposal, but big timber could still get break

January 17, 2024
By ALEX BAUMHARDT/Oregon Capital Chronicle SALEM — A proposal that would charge each Oregon property owner $10 a year to offset rising fees that timber and ranch landowners pay to the state for fire protection is going through major changes. A Jan. 12 draft of the wildfire funding proposal, sponsored by Sen Elizabeth Steiner, D-Portland, and a workgroup she convened

Newport assisted living center without power calls on emergency providers, families to safely move residents

January 16, 2024
By GARRET JAROS/YachatsNews NEWPORT – After squeaking through the night of generator power with limited light and no television, the residents of Oceanview Senior Living in north Newport packed up and moved out. “We just decided to move them Sunday night,” said Jeanette Ivan, the center’s executive director. “There’s some areas in here that are still warm enough from

Without power for days, community of Depoe Bay pulls together with help of neighbors, city and fire department

January 16, 2024
By GARRET JAROS/YachatsNews DEPOE BAY – With no electricity and every business in town closed, Depoe Bay resembled a ghost town Monday afternoon. But with sunny skies, a gentle breeze and temperatures reaching a balmy 40 degrees it wasn’t long before one resident walking the neighborhoods greeted folks with a “Feels like spring in Minnesota” and “It’s warmer than Portland.”

Newport’s emergency shelter quickly set up Sunday and Monday for shivering residents, closes Tuesday evening

January 15, 2024
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.

Electricity being restored Tuesday evening to thousands of CLPUD customers from Yachats to Lincoln Beach after outages caused by thawing lines

January 15, 2024
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
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