WALDPORT — Crestview Heights Elementary School in Waldport is starting a student-focused reading program and needs volunteers from the community to help get it going. The SMART – Start Making […]
Pacific Wind Esemble seeks central coast musicians for 2019-20 season
The Pacific Coast Wind Ensemble is looking for musicians of all types as it begins practicing this month for its 2019-20 season. Percussion players are especially needed, but all woodwind, […]
Sheriff’s office offering free “shred day” Saturday, Sept. 7
The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office is offering a free opportunity for the public to shred sensitive documents from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 7 in the parking lot […]
Ocean View Drive paving scheduled Thursday and Friday, Sept. 5-6
Major sections of Ocean View Drive in Yachats are scheduled for paving Thursday and Friday, Sept. 5-6. The paving is the next step in a years-long process of Lincoln […]
Yachats council to resume vacation rental discussion on Wednesday
The Yachats City Council will resume its discussion – nearly it’s last – on how or if to revise portions of its vacation rental ordinance when it meets Wednesday, […]
Yachats, central Oregon coast businesses reap benefit of another strong tourist season
QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com To spend a couple of hours in the Yachats Visitor Center is to glimpse a microcosm of summer tourism here. There’s a surfer dude and his girlfriend […]
Yachats code enforcement discontent flares up again; city manager offers plan to deal with it
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com Yachats City Manager Shannon Beaucaire plans to use a temporary employment agency to hire a part-time person to take care of a backlog of pressing issues […]
Commercial permits for matsutake mushroom harvesting go on sale Sept. 4
Permits for commercial harvesting of matsutake mushrooms will be on sale from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 4, at the Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area Visitor Center, 855 […]
Legislature’s repeal of building ban in coastal tsunami zones brings out critics — and local support
By ANDREW SELSKY/The Associated Press NEWPORT — With sunlight sparkling off surrounding Yaquina Bay, workers are putting up an ocean-studies building, smack in the middle of an area expected […]
Two-day conference by ‘Coastal Caucus’ legislators is testament to group’s growing influence
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com FLORENCE — When 600 people from across the state filed into a casino convention center here Wednesday, they were greeted with a colorful 64-page program, a […]