Yachats Arts Guild and Yachats Ladies Club hold 2- and 3-day shows beginning Saturday

May 24, 2023

YACHATS — Yachats’ summer season officially launches this weekend with the return of two popular attractions — the Yachats Arts Guild’s three-day art show and the Yachats Ladies Club’s two-day benefit sale of handcrafted items and baked goods. The art show, themed “Here Comes The Sun”, runs from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Sunday and Monday at the Yachats

Yachats council agrees to ask former southern California newspaper executive to be interim city manager

May 24, 2023

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews YACHATS – Rick Sant moved to Yachats three years ago after a career helping run large newspaper operations in Orange County, Calif. and Spokane. Now he’s offering to help the city of Yachats until it can find a new city manager. After a special meeting and executive session Tuesday, the city council voted unanimously to negotiate

Democrats in Oregon Legislature agree on historic school funding but bill stalled by Senate Republican walkout

May 23, 2023

Democratic leaders in the Legislature have agreed to spend a record $10.2 billion over the next two years on school funding. (Getty Images) BY ALEX BAUMHARDT and JULIA SHUMWAY/Oregon Capital Chronicle SALEM — Democratic leaders in the 2023 Oregon Legislature have agreed to spend a record amount on schools over the next two years after last week’s economic forecast showed

Maritime Heritage Center in Newport opens four-month photo exhibit on seaweed, kelp and ocean health

May 23, 2023

By Oregon ArtsWatch A traveling exhibit by a San Francisco author and photographer that explores the important of seaweed and kelp to ocean health opens Thursday at the Pacific Maritime Heritage Center in Newport. The exhibit featuring Josie Iselin’s color portraits of seaweed continues through Oct. 1. In conjunction with the opening, the maritime center is staging “Seaweed Weekend” June

Gov. Kotek calls Senate Republicans ‘disrespectful’ after closed-door meetings Monday in 14th day of walkout

May 22, 2023

A sign for the Office of the Senate President at the Oregon State Capitol in Salem on Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2023. Gov. Tina Kotek met with Republican and Democratic senators on Monday in separate meetings on the GOP-led Senate walkout continued. (Amanda Loman/Oregon Capital Chronicle) By BEN BOTKIN/Oregon Capital Chronicle SALEM — Gov. Tina Kotek spent about two hours listening

Samaritan sells its medical equipment business to Idaho company

May 22, 2023

Samaritan Health Services has completed the sale of its durable medical equipment business Samaritan Medical Supplies to Norco Medical of Boise, a 75-year-old provider of high-quality home medical supplies. “We chose Norco for several reasons, but primarily because they are a well-established family- and employee-owned company based in the Northwest that is highly focused on the customers and its employees

Here’s what Oregon’s controversial abortion, gender-affirming care bill would do as Republican Senate walkout continues

May 22, 2023

Supporters of Republican senators rally at the Oregon Capitol on May 15 to voice opposition to House Bill 2002, an abortion and gender-affirming health care bill. The GOP-led walkout prevented the Senate from conducting business for a 10th day. By JULIA SHUMWAY/Oregon Capital Chronicle SALEM — Senate Republicans are more than two weeks into a quorum-denying walkout that’s partially intended

OSU’s new ocean research vessel headed to Newport next year has been successfully launched in Louisiana

May 22, 2023

By MICHELLE KLAMPE/OSU News Service A new 200-foot research vessel headed to the Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport was successfully launched last week at a shipyard in Louisiana. The ship, R/V Taani, is being constructed as part of a project, led by Oregon State University and funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation, to provide scientists with valuable

Major Newport organization providing homeless services in Lincoln County announces it will shut down in mid June

May 21, 2023

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews One of the major service providers to the homeless in Lincoln County is closing next month due to the poor health of its founder, money issues and a dwindling number of volunteers. Grace Wins Haven, which operates out of a building on Northeast First Street in Newport, plans to close June 15. The four-member board of

Lincoln County district attorney files lawsuit against commissioners in disagreement over blocked promotion of deputy

May 21, 2023

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews Lincoln County district attorney Lanee Danforth has gone to court seeking to prohibit county commissioners from preventing her from creating a second chief deputy’s position and promoting someone to fill it. It’s the second public, personnel fight involving Danforth, who took office in 2021, and county commissioners in the past 18 months. Danforth filed suit

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Yachats Arts Guild and Yachats Ladies Club hold 2- and 3-day shows beginning Saturday

Yachats council agrees to ask former southern California newspaper executive to be interim city manager

Democrats in Oregon Legislature agree on historic school funding but bill stalled by Senate Republican walkout

Maritime Heritage Center in Newport opens four-month photo exhibit on seaweed, kelp and ocean health

Gov. Kotek calls Senate Republicans ‘disrespectful’ after closed-door meetings Monday in 14th day of walkout

Samaritan sells its medical equipment business to Idaho company

Here’s what Oregon’s controversial abortion, gender-affirming care bill would do as Republican Senate walkout continues

OSU’s new ocean research vessel headed to Newport next year has been successfully launched in Louisiana

Major Newport organization providing homeless services in Lincoln County announces it will shut down in mid June

Lincoln County district attorney files lawsuit against commissioners in disagreement over blocked promotion of deputy

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