YachatsNews.com: Google Analytics data summary for 30 days ending 25Aug2019

Analytics Data Snapshot – August 25, 2019

August 19, 2019

Google Analytics data for YachatsNews.com over a one-month period appears below. The peaks tend to occur weekly when MailChimp delivers the email bulletins automatically on Friday mornings. Stories about a stranded humpback whale may have contributed to the peak on August 15 (997 users.) Considering that the 2010 Census shows the year-round population at 690 (now higher in 2019) the

Wisconsin storyteller performs Friday in Yachats

August 19, 2019

A story teller will perform at 10:30 a.m. Friday, Aug. 23 at the Yachats Library as the culmination of a seven-week summer reading program for children. But the performance by Tracy Chipman, a former Oregon storyteller now living in Wisconsin, is appropriate and open to all ages, said librarian Janet Rackleff. Participants in the library’s summer reading program are finishing

Onlookers and TV cameras before the decision was made to euthanize stranded whale in Waldport

Humpback whale euthanized after 30 hours on Waldport beach was healthy before stranding, necropsy shows

August 17, 2019

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com A young humpback whale euthanized Thursday after stranding itself on the beach for 30 hours was a healthy male with no apparent injuries or wounds, according to preliminary necropsy results. The whale’s layer of blubber was good condition, Michael Milstein, the Portland-based spokesman for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, said Friday. He said veterinarians who

Expect another year of poor Chinook fishing, low limits due to continued poor ocean conditions

August 17, 2019

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com There will be more fishing than catching of salmon this season on coastal streams in Lincoln County. Salmon returns – both Chinook and coho – should be better than last year. But runs are still depressed because of years of poor ocean conditions that are now only starting to improve. Low salmon returns last fall and the

Yachats manager says commissions should start counting visitors to defend spending decisions

August 15, 2019

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com Yachats city manager Shannon Beaucaire is urging commissions that oversee public facilities to begin quantifying how many visitors use them to help fend off possible challenges to how the city spends lodging taxes. She made the suggestion Wednesday during a presentation on transient lodging taxes to the city Finance Committee. Beaucaire wants the Finance Committee – made

City commission suggests changes in “Clean Up” event — and surprised at its $6,855 cost

August 15, 2019

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com Members of the city’s Public Works and Streets Commission won’t recommend that Yachats quit sponsoring its three-day “Clean Up” event each June. But they expressed surprise Tuesday that what began as a shredding event years ago is now a free-for-all trash-dumping service that cost the city $6,855 this year. “That kind of took my breath away,”

Lincoln County moves deeper into vacation rental issues, including possibility of a license limit

August 14, 2019

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com Lincoln County commissioners are looking into stricter regulation of vacation rentals – including the possibility of limiting the number of licenses. Commissioners authorized their staff last week to spend the next four months digging deeper into “best practices” of regulating vacation rentals, mapping the location of existing licensed rentals, trying to discover the number of

City Council changes mind – and directions – on Ocean View Drive

August 8, 2019

The Yachats City Council on Wednesday did a U-turn on one-way directions for Ocean View Drive – for now. Lincoln County is in the process of making improvements to the longest residential street in Yachats before turning it over to the city. It plans to pave two 1,000-foot sections of the road north and south of Yachats State Park

“Shop the Dock” program gives coastal residents and visitors a close-up view of Oregon fisheries

August 8, 2019

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com Angee Doerr faces the group of 26 and runs through some simple instructions: it’s a working dock, so give fishermen the right of way; don’t get too close to the edge; dock planks are uneven so watch your step. It’s the first of an-every-Friday-morning-in-August tour of Newport’s commercial docks run by Oregon State University’s extension and Sea

Yachats council reaches consensus on six vacation rental issues – and not changing much in current ordinance

August 8, 2019

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com The Yachats City Council is not inclined to change much of the city’s current regulations on vacation rentals, reaching consensus Wednesday on six issues and postponing discussion on a seventh. In a workshop session, the council reached a consensus – but not taking a final vote – to: Continuing to prohibit transfer of a license to