By KATHLEEN O’CONNOR/YachatsNews Susan Hanson’s life is a story of multiple reinventions, starting with moving to a new continent when she was 11. Now she owns two businesses in […]
By KATHLEEN O’CONNOR/YachatsNews WALDPORT — Nonstop, complicated, intense — but always with rewarding moments. That is how each day is for Scott Ellefson, managing pharmacist at Hi-School Pharmacy in […]
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews Doug Yunker has been a small town paperboy, conscientious objector, Peace Corps volunteer, social worker and college professor and administrator. Now, the soon-to-be 82-year-old resident of […]
By KATHLEEN O’CONNOR/YachatsNews SEAL ROCK — Bubbling up, then bursting forth. That’s the way Bob Meyer, owner of Ocean Beaches Glassblowing and Gallery in Seal Rock, describes the creativity […]
By KATHLEEN O’CONNOR/YachatsNews Chris Carlson, owner of C.P. Carlson Builders in Waldport, first started learning about home building in kindergarten. His father, Peter Carlson, was a home builder on […]
By KATHLEEN O’CONNOR/YachatsNews Barbara Schmaltz was nine when she started picking berries in the fields around her hometown of Newberg. With seven children in her family, she wanted to […]
By KATHLEEN O’CONNOR/YachatsNews Five home bases in 12 months — that’s what Terry and Gail Thysell will have had by the end of December as Oregon State Park campground […]
By KATHLEEN O’CONNOR/YachatsNews There’s an explosion of colorful chaos that greets you upon entering Mai Asian Market on East Olive Street in Newport. The shelves are so crowded with […]
By KATHLEEN O’CONNOR/YachatsNews Vacationers and locals alike cannot help but take a closer look at Roger Harris’s flower garden at 205 Alsea Bay Drive in the Bayshore community on […]
By KATHLEEN O’CONNOR/YachatsNews Every once in a while a high school senior project works out perfectly. As a senior at Waldport High School, Reba Ortiz volunteered for a year […]
