OREGON STATE POLICE DAILY MEDIA/DESK LOG SP20182581 07/02/2020 17:17 Officer #50607 TUCKER, BRIAN DUII – Alcohol Location NE 101 HWY and NE LILLIAN LN, Narrative Summary On 07/02/20 at approximately 5:17 PM, Oregon State […]
Yachats council forgives $11,000 of $19,000 utility bill for low-income apartment developer after massive water leak in February
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com The Yachats City Council has forgiven $11,000 of a $19,000 water and sewer bill for the owners of Fisterra Gardens Townhomes because of a massive water leak […]
OSU returns to Newport this weekend for second COVID-19 sampling; sewage tests show no coronavirus in Yachats, Depoe Bay
By STEVE LUNDEBERG/OSU News Service The groundbreaking Oregon State University sampling project that helps determine community prevalence of coronavirus will return to Newport for two more days of sampling this […]
Yachats still experiencing undue pain in its transition from former method of governance
To the editor: This letter is in response to the recent article on the Visitor’s Center contract, but I also hope to address other recent history of the contract process […]
Oregon will have just three initiatives — drugs, taxes and money — on November ballot
By GARY A. WARNER/Oregon Capital Bureau Drug decriminalization, a cigarette tax increase and limits on political campaign financing are on a historically short list of ballot measures that will go […]
Oregon Health Authority’s coronavirus report for Sunday, July 5
Oregon reports 301 new confirmed and presumptive COVID-19 cases, 2 new deaths PORTLAND — COVID-19 has claimed two more lives in Oregon, raising the state’s death toll to 215, the […]
Oregon Health Authority’s coronavirus report for Saturday, July 4
Oregon reports 303 new confirmed and presumptive COVID-19 cases, 4 new deaths PORTLAND — COVID-19 has claimed four more lives in Oregon, raising the state’s death toll to 213, the […]
In the year of a coronavirus pandemic, families and friends celebrate July 4th in Yachats in quieter, more subdued ways
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com Like the last four months of 2020, July 4 in Yachats was a lot different. Gone were the big crowds lining the streets for the city’s whimsical […]
Lincoln City police arrest 7 Washington men for riot, harassing Black family during July 4 fireworks incident
On Saturday, July 4th, 2020 at about 9:33 p.m., Lincoln City Police were dispatched to the ocean beach area in front of the Inn at Spanish Head on a report […]
Second resident of Newport nursing home dies as governor warns Lincoln and seven other counties that COVID-19 outbreaks must slow
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com A second resident of a Newport rehabilitation center has died of COVID-19, one day before Gov. Kate Brown put Lincoln County and seven other rural counties on […]