$6 million, 21-unit Yachats low-income housing project already has a long waiting list

May 2, 2019

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com When state and local dignitaries gather Thursday to celebrate the opening of a unique low-income housing development in Yachats, its 21 units will already be filled. And there’s already a waiting list of 40 people. That’s how needed – and popular – the $6 million Fisterra Garden Townhomes project has proven. “They filled up immediately and haven’t

Two Yachats Fire Board races draw five candidates, one board member unopposed

May 2, 2019

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com The Yachats Rural Fire Protection District, which has had trouble finding people to run for its five-member board, is suddenly awash in candidates. Six people, including two incumbents, are running for three positions in the May 21 election. The board has had a vacancy for more than a year and has not been able to recruit anyone

Yachats council reverses direction to award control of Sunday farmer’s market

May 2, 2019

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com The Yachats City Council on Wednesday rejected a recommendation that a vendor-run group manage the popular farmer’s market and instead voted unanimously to let a local businesswoman operate it. The vote came after council members acknowledged a flurry of emails and telephone calls the past week in support of a proposal by Blythe Collins, owner of Bread

April rainfall was most since 2012, makes up for dry March

May 1, 2019

It may be sunny this week but April was a very wet month. Yachats received 9.11 inches of rain in April – three times the amount measured at the city’s wastewater treatment plant in March. April’s rainfall is the most since 2012 and three inches more than the monthly average over the last 10 years. The driest April was in

UO physicist to talk at Yachats academy event May 4

May 1, 2019

A University of Oregon physicist participating in a study that recreates the conditions of the early universe will give a presentation in Yachats at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, May 4. Sponsored by the Yachats Academy of Arts & Sciences and Polly Plumb Productions, James Brau will give a presentation entitled “Report on a Journey to the Beginning of Time.” The event

OSHA tests find no current toxic issues at Waldport elementary school

April 30, 2019

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com WALDPORT – Tests by a state agency last week at a troubled Waldport elementary school showed no toxic elements or mold still in the building that may have made some children ill in January and April. The Oregon Occupational Safety and Health Agency spent last Thursday and Friday at Crestview Heights Elementary School, testing air in the

Central coast’s only elk habitat area has special meaning for ODFW

April 25, 2019

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com The pasture stretches for a mile, bordered on the south side by the Yachats River. In the middle are meandering bush-lined ditches filled with water for frogs and bugs. Swallows have returned to dip and dive and fight over bird boxes along the edge of the marsh. It is the only state-owned elk habitat on the central

Crews reinstall steps Thursday at the north end of the 804 Trail

April 25, 2019

City starts tests to examine problem with Horizon Hill Road

April 25, 2019

The city of Yachats started a year-long $18,000 project Thursday to see if a portion of Horizon Hill Road is sloughing off the steep hillside east of downtown. A contractor with Geo Engineers of Salem took a core sample of earth from Horizon Hill just north of its intersection with Spruce Street. Geo Engineers will then place monitors along each

ODFW, fishing group sponsor Alsea River cleanup on Sunday

April 24, 2019

The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife and Alsea Sportsman’s Association will join forces with other conservation-minded individuals on Sunday, April 28 to clean up the Alsea River. This event is also sponsored by SOLVE and Dahl Disposal Service. The event is scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. at the U.S. Forest Service’s Blackberry Campground 19 miles east of Waldport