Yachats Farmers Market returns Sunday with record number of vendors

May 11, 2023

YACHATS — The city’s popular Sunday Farmers Market returns on Mother’s Day this Sunday with a record number of vendors — 45 — and some new food options. The market is open from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. every Sunday through October at its traditional location on West Fourth Street just off U.S. Highway 101. The market will offer produce,

Samaritan dietitian offering wellness seminars on May 31

May 11, 2023

NEWPORT — A Samaritan Health Services dietitian will present a free wellness seminar two times on Wednesday, May 31 to develop a framework to feeling your best. Rachele Hall will discuss the four cornerstones of whole human health – food, body, emotional well-being and spiritual growth. She’ll cover eating for nourishment, optimizing metabolism and achieving your wellness weight. The seminar

Yachats and SW Lincoln PUD agree to explore if and how the city can become a long-term water customer

May 11, 2023

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews The city of Yachats and Southwest Lincoln Water People’s Utility District have agreed to start discussing how Yachats might become a regular, long-term customer of the sprawling district immediately to its north. Although the Yachats council wanted to explore the topic with Southwest Lincoln more than two years ago, an actual meeting did not take place

Newport attorney portrays Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes during history performance Saturday

May 11, 2023

By GRETCHEN AMMERMAN/Oregon Coast TODAY The Supreme Court. For better or for worse, it’s the last word on the laws that shape the American landscape. And one of its most oft-quoted justices, the colorful and highly decorated American Civil War veteran, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. — portrayed by Newport attorney William A. Barton — will visit Newport on Saturday

Waldport wildlife photographer will show work from Arctic trip Wednesday in Newport

May 11, 2023

Take a ride with members of the Yaquina Birders and Naturalists to the “Land of the Midnight Sun” during a naturalist presentation by Waldport wildlife photographer Roy W. Lowe on Wednesday, May 17. In June 2019, Lowe and friends traveled to Utqiagvik (Barrow), Alaska, the northernmost city in the United States, located 330 miles north of the Arctic Circle.

Oregon lifts COVID-19 vaccine requirements, quarantine advice and other health measures as federal emergency ends

May 10, 2023

By BEN BOTKIN/Oregon Capital Chronicle Oregon is ending COVID-19 vaccine requirements for educators and health care workers and officials are no longer asking people infected with the virus to isolate for five days. Oregon public health officials announced the changes Wednesday, a day before the federal COVID-19 public health emergency ends. Some of the changes start on Thursday, and

Siuslaw National Forest going to electronic fee machines

May 10, 2023

Some recreation areas in the Siuslaw National Forest and Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area are going electronic by installing automated fee machines. The machines, the agency said in a news release, replace the classic “iron ranger” fee tubes as part of a nationwide initiative by the U.S. Forest Service. Over the past several years, theft and vandalism to fee stations

Oregon Gov. Kotek, fire officials say wet winter could delay wildfires, but drought persists

May 9, 2023

By JULIA SHUMWAY/Oregon Capital Chronicle SALEM — A wet winter is likely to delay wildfires, but ongoing drought in eastern Oregon could make for a worse fire season east of the Cascades, Gov. Tina Kotek and state fire officials said Tuesday. Kotek’s press briefing came just ahead of a forecasted heat wave bringing temperatures in the 90s to the Willamette

Attack on gray whale calf by large pod of orcas Monday brings marine predation close to shore for dozens of witnesses

May 9, 2023

By DANA TIMS/YachatsNews Emotions ranged from exhilaration to horror Monday evening as dozens gathered on the shore near Cape Foulweather witnessed a pod of killer whales attacking a migrating gray whale and her calf over the course of three excruciating hours. The attack by as many as eight to 10 killer whales was captured by countless still photographs and

Secretary of State office leaders call agency “resilient” in Monday statement endorsing Fagan’s resignation

May 8, 2023

By LYNNE TERRY/Oregon Capital Chronicle SALEM — Shemia Fagan ended her nearly three-year tenure as Oregon’s 28th secretary of state at midday Monday, less than two hours after her staff released a statement endorsing her resignation and calling the agency “resilient.” Fagan’s deputy, Cheryl Myers, who earns more than double what Fagan was paid, took over as acting secretary of