FLORENCE – The popular Dairy Queen restaurant at the north end of the Siuslaw River bridge is a total loss after catching fire Wednesday. Firefighters arrived to the restaurant on […]
Oregon State, University of Oregon announce vaccine or negative COVID-19 test results for all events beginning Monday
The Eugene Register-Guard The University of Oregon and Oregon State University will require people attending their events to show they have been vaccinated or got a recent negative COVID-19 test. Both universities start […]
Rapid deteriorating whale carcass moves out of cove early Sunday, floats into bay for a bit — and high tide is taking it out to sea
By DANA TIMS and QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com The rapidly deteriorating carcass of a juvenile gray whale that washed ashore this week in Yachats moved out of a rocky cove below Ocean […]
Despite departure of popular Chubby’s from downtown Waldport, city hopes to create a pod of 4-6 food carts to expand dining options
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com WALDPORT – The departure of a popular food cart in downtown Waldport isn’t deterring city officials from trying to establish a “pod” of 4-6 such outlets […]
Yachats’ Post Office is not closing, but struggling with staffing issues like many other coastal and rural post offices
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com The Yachats Post Office, which shut Tuesday afternoon and early Wednesday, is not closing but is struggling like most post offices on the Oregon coast with […]
Retiree incomes, not necessarily tourism, is bigger driver of Lincoln County’s economy
To the editor: No, Lincoln County’s economy is not mainly supported by tourism as claimed by the short-term rental organization, Via Oregon. Thank goodness. Traditionally, the dominant economic centers are […]
Oregon coronavirus report for Thursday, Aug. 19: 2,971 news cases, 57 more in Lincoln County
Oregon reports 2,971 new confirmed and presumptive COVID-19 cases, 19 new deaths PORTLAND — There are 19 new COVID-19 related deaths in Oregon, raising the state’s death toll to 2,975, […]
Teachers and health care workers in Oregon will be required to get COVID-19 vaccination, governor orders Thursday as COVID-19 skyrockets
By GARY WARNER/Oregon Capital Bureau Facing a sharp surge in COVID-19 infections that threatens to swamp Oregon hospitals, Gov. Kate Brown on Thursday ordered a double dose of mandatory vaccination […]
Yachats council authorizes city manager to negotiate higher salary for potential office employee after initial job offer rejected
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com The Yachats City Council resumed its public thrashing around Wednesday over hiring a former contractor to handle some bookkeeping and administrative functions at City Hall after […]
Yachats Octoberfest, Waldport Cruzin’ for Crab fall victim to coronavirus, meeting change, job vacancies, and truce over Waldport fence ……
Not all the news of interest in south Lincoln County can have a full-blown story. Good2Know is a roundup of items about people, places and things involving coastal life. Church […]