Yachats prohibits camping at Little Log Church as group recommends taking other city sites off potential list

May 16, 2024

By GARRET JAROS/YachatsNews YACHATS – A group advising Yachats on homeless issues is recommending the city add four sites where camping would be banned — sites originally identified as the only city-owned property where camping might be allowed. These include properties next to water reservoirs in neighborhoods east of Highway 101 and a previously favored designated camping area near

County commissioners select contractor for new animal shelter in Waldport, construction could start in July

May 16, 2024

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews Lincoln County hopes to hold a groundbreaking ceremony in late June for its new animal control shelter in Waldport and have a Salem-based contractor moving dirt by mid-July. If all goes well – not a given in any coastal construction project – the $5 million shelter in the Waldport Industrial Park could be open and operating

Yachats fire district has first cash carryover in years after financial struggles erased by levy approvals

May 16, 2024

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews YACHATS – Voter-approved tax levies in 2022 and 2023 are making the job of the Yachats Rural Fire Protection District’s budget committee much easier. After five years of needing loans to make ends meet between infusions of property taxes, the fire district’s budget committee learned Monday that the district should have a healthy cash carryover of

Oregon elections officials straighten out post office issue that affected some Lincoln County ballots

May 16, 2024

By JULIA SHUMWAY/Oregon Capital Chronicle SALEM — Oregon’s House Republican leader sent state election officials scrambling this week after he used a minor delay in delivering mailed ballots to clerks in two counties to raise doubts about the integrity of the state’s voting system. The short delays county clerks in Douglas and Lincoln counties experienced were caused by a “miscommunication”

Wednesday night update: Wallace wins district attorney race; Hall and Beasley in November runoff; all money measures passing

May 16, 2024

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews A prosecutor who stepped in to run for district attorney at the last minute won election Tuesday to become Lincoln County’s third district attorney in four years. Jenna Wallace, 34, of Toledo, won with 55 percent of the vote over longtime Newport defense attorney Kathryn Benfield. With 95 percent of ballots counted by end of the

Waldport, sheriff and Lincoln County embroiled in a dispute — and trade accusations — over cost of deputy contract

May 16, 2024

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews Will the city of Waldport end its contract to have Lincoln County Sheriff’s deputies stationed in town? Will a disagreement between Waldport and Lincoln County derail an experiment by Yachats to pay for a deputy in the city? Or, are county officials correct in saying that a Waldport-Yachats proposal for three deputies would have other county

Lincoln County Master Gardeners holding 23rd annual plant sale Saturday

May 16, 2024

Plants that have been started with a masterful touch will be on sale from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday during the Lincoln County Master Gardener Association’s 23rd annual plant sale at the Oregon National Guard Armory in Newport. There will be more than 25 varieties of tomatoes, vegetable starts, herbs, native plants, perennials and houseplants. All were grown by

“Bloom Newport” stages third annual event Saturday at Performing Arts Center

May 16, 2024

By Oregon Coast TODAY Visitors can experience the creativity, culture, cuisine, community and commerce of a thriving coastal town at Bloom Newport from 3-7 p.m. Saturday, May 18, at the Newport Performing Arts Center. Now in its third year, the event features everything from live entertainment to community organizations, artisans, vendors, food, the ever-popular beverage garden and an equipment

Myrtle Creek woman killed in Highway 126 crash east of Florence

May 15, 2024

Lane County, Ore. 14 May 24- On Tuesday, May 14, 2024, at 2:13 p.m., Oregon State Police responded to a two-vehicle crash on Hwy-126, near milepost 1.5, in Lane County. The preliminary investigation indicated a westbound Toyota Rav4, operated by Katherine Lee Horath (46) of Myrtle Creek, crossed into the eastbound lane for unknown reasons and struck a Chevrolet Equinox, operated

Oregon’s got jobs, but could use workers to fill critical positions, according to new report

May 15, 2024

By TIFFANY CAMHI/Oregon Public Broadcasting Oregon has lots of jobs. In some ways, too many. Jobs are especially abundant in Oregon’s healthcare, manufacturing and childcare industries. But the workforce to fill these jobs is lagging and employers — businesses, community organizations, higher education institutions and state agencies — will have to work together to shore up the state’s worker shortage.