Portland-area program for homeless teenagers expands to Lincoln County because of the high numbers here

January 12, 2025

By DANA TIMS/YachatsNews Jeffrey Fleming is searching for a few good homes which, it turns out, can make all the difference whether homeless Lincoln County teenagers graduate from high school. Fleming is the home provider coordinator for a new program in Lincoln County called Second Home. His goal right now is finding safe and secure homes for the hundreds

Flooring replacement at Newport hospital delays some surgeries until March

January 12, 2025

NEWPORT – A massive flooring replacement project at Samaritan Pacific Communities Hospital has moved into the surgery department and as a result some elective surgeries and procedures are being delayed to March. The hospital has four operating rooms and 14 pre-op admitting rooms. Facility director Jon Conner said workers will seal off half of the surgery department to replace the

OSU scientist predicts “well behaved” volcano 300 miles off Oregon coast could erupt this year

January 12, 2025

By GOSIA WOZNIACKIA/The Oregonian/Oregon Live An undersea volcano off Oregon’s coast will likely erupt this year, scientists say. Known as Axial Seamount, it’s the most active volcano in the Pacific Northwest – although one most people haven’t heard of because it lies about 300 miles offshore and just under a mile beneath the ocean surface. Its eruption won’t trigger

Mike Korgan, Portland/Yachats

January 11, 2025

Milton “Mike” Korgan July 14, 1939 – Jan. 7, 2025 Milton “Mike” Eugene Korgan, aka Ken Chase, who lived in Portland and Yachats, peacefully passed away surrounded by his family on Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2025. He was 85. Mike was born on July 14, 1939, in a two-room farmhouse on his family’s dairy farm in Moore, Okla. In grammar

Mike Korgan, producer of “Louie Louie” and with deep connections to Yachats area, dies at age 85

January 10, 2025

By AIMEE GREEN/The Oregonian/OregonLive Milton “Mike” Korgan, who produced one of the 20th century’s most celebrated songs — “Louie Louie” — died Tuesday. He was known to many by his professional name Ken Chase. He was 85. Korgan was preceded in death by others responsible for creating the three-chord classic: songwriter, Richard Berry, in 1997; the singer, Jack Ely, in 2015; drummer Lynn Easton in

Bowing to criticism and controversy, Oregon’s state forester Cal Mukumoto will resign this month

January 10, 2025

By NOELLE CROMBIE/The Oregonian/OregonLive Oregon State Forester Cal Mukumoto will resign effective later this month amid complaints about the agency’s culture, personnel investigations into some of his top managers and sharp criticism over a funding shortfall during a historic wildfire season that led to a special legislative session to pay the bills. Mukumoto’s resignation was announced Thursday by Board of Forestry Chair Jim Kelly during

Lincoln County school officials refining list of possible bond projects before board decision next month

January 9, 2025

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews A public opinion poll commissioned by the Lincoln County School District shows good support for a potential $73 million bond after respondents were told that the money would be used to update and protect buildings, improve technology and safety, install all-weather fields and playgrounds and build auditoriums at three high schools. The poll was based on

While not big a business in Lincoln County, OSU Extension aims to help hundreds of small farms prosper

January 9, 2025

By DANA TIMS/YachatsNews No one is confusing the economic and social importance of Lincoln County’s farms with the sprawling tracts of land dominating Oregon agriculture in the Willamette Valley and east of the Cascades. Total sales from Lincoln County’s farms, after all, rank dead last among Oregon’s 36 counties. Still, that figure doesn’t begin to tell the story of

They’re in! Road crews pave path along Highway 101 and install delineators on south side of Yachats

January 9, 2025

YACHATS – It’s done. They’re in. Crews from Newport-based Road & Driveway created a five-foot-wide asphalt path along U.S. Highway 101 on the south side of town Wednesday and installed 36 delineators Thursday to finish a long-awaited city project designed to help protect pedestrians. The delineators are 25 feet apart on the west side of the highway from Yachats

With homelessness crisis continuing, Oregon governor extends state of emergency

January 9, 2025

By JULIA SHUMWAY/Oregon Capital Chronicle SALEM — Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek on Thursday continued the homelessness state of emergency she declared on her first day in office for a third year as the state continues to grapple with the crisis of thousands of people living outside. Kotek’s executive order follows confirmation in a federal report released in late December that