Quinton Smith

By OREGON ARTSWATCH NEWPORT — The first portrait came out of a mix of boredom and awe, sparked by a chance online encounter. Nayana LaFond didn’t expect much attention to the portrait she painted — a selfie of a woman wearing red in support of missing and murdered Indigenous people. But overnight, the portrait shared on Social Distance Powwow drew more than

By DANA TIMS/YachatsNews.com The last remaining stretch of Oregon’s coastline that has been closed to commercial Dungeness crab fishing will open Saturday, Feb. 4. Like so much of this season’s halting progress, a single caveat still applies to that stretch, which ranges from Cape Arago just south of Charleston to the California border. It involves stubbornly high levels of

By KENNETH LIPP/YachatsNews The Lincoln County School District’s board is on course to make a young, dynamic senior administrator its new superintendent, bypassing a professional search or internal application process to replace its retiring chief administrator. Majalise Tolan, 43, is an educator of two decades, an author, LCSD’s secondary education director and apparent successor to superintendent Karen Gray, 65,

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews YACHATS – The new owner of the Adobe motel has big plans. A full remodel of 110 rooms. A full remodel of the lobby. Sprucing up the exterior with new landscaping. And that’s just this year. After the motel is remodeled, Fushion Lodging owner and chief executive Sazzadur Rahman plans to tackle the large open area