2019 calendar benefits Yachats kids

January 3, 2019

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com You could say that the calendar for Yachats Youth and Family Activities Program started on Dec. 3, 2011. That’s when Ken Gagne of Yachats was loading his fishing boat at South Beach Marina and turned around to experience “the most beautiful sunset I’d ever seen.” He took out his $100 point-and-shoot camera and fired off a shot.

Cape Trail reopens after slide

January 3, 2019

The Siuslaw National Forest has reopened the short trail along Highway 101 on Cape Perpetua that connects two popular trails after erosion of the cliff below made it unsafe. But there remains a longer-term erosion threat to the Cape Cove Trail and the highway, according to Dan Matthews, coast recreation staff officer for the agency. The trail closed in the

Newport hospital reopens walk-in clinic

January 3, 2019

NEWPORT — After three weeks of operation inside a mobile medicine van, the walk-in urgent care clinic at Samaritan Pacific Communities Hospital in Newport has reopened in a longer-term location next to the Center for Health Education, 740 S.W. Ninth St. To prepare for the next phase of the new hospital construction project, the modular building had to be moved from its

2018 rainfall is second lowest in nine years

January 3, 2019

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com Yachats received a bit more than 58 inches of rain in 2018, the second lowest amount in the past nine years, reinforcing worries how the city collects, stores and distributes water during the driest months of summer. When midnight arrived Dec. 31 the rain gauge at the city’s wastewater treatment plant near downtown registered 58.26 inches for

Welcome to YachatsNews.com

January 3, 2019

Welcome to a news website devoted to local journalism for Yachats and south Lincoln county Residents of Yachats are very interested and involved in their community – and very demanding of it. But the demise of traditional media and news coverage by even the smallest newspapers has left a void of clear, contextual, straight news reporting to help people understand