By KATHLEEN O’CONNOR/YachatsNews WALDPORT — Almost everyone from Yachats to Newport has stood in line at Pacific Sourdough Bakery in Waldport at least once. Many are there every week, […]
5 Questions and a Secret
5 Questions and a Secret: Mary Crook and Shelley Yates of “Books and More” in Yachats
BY KATHLEEN O’CONNOR/YachatsNews What do you do when your business partner wants to retire before you do? You hope to find a new one, equally as perfect as the […]
5 Questions and A Secret: Anthony Gainer of “Oh Shoot!” photography in Waldport
By KATHLEEN O’CONNOR/YachatsNews Anthony Gainer was born and raised in Waldport, left for 15 years to explore the world and returned in 2021 to start his photography/videography company, Oh […]
5 Questions and a Secret: New book author Jay V. Chambers of Yachats
By CHERYL ROMANO/YachatsNews For almost five years, customers at the Yachats Mercantile store have been used to seeing only one side of Jay Chambers — the side that works […]
5 Questions and A Secret: Oceanside Flooring’s Leona and Mitch Rose
By CHERYL ROMANO/YachatsNews WALDPORT — Have you ever wandered the canyons of a big box home improvement store in quest of help or advice? And come up empty on […]
5 Questions and A Secret: Karen Chalmers and Spinning Sands at Seal Rock beach
By KATHLEEN O’CONNOR/YachatsNews At any time during the year drivers along U.S. Highway 101 can suddenly find themselves turning their cars to see what is going on at low […]
5 Questions and A Secret: Yaquina Nursery’s Chris and Renee Taylor Valentin
By CHERYL ROMANO/YachatsNews When the Yaquina Nursery was up for sale in 2021, a friend told Chris Valentin, “Hey, you and Renee should buy this.” So they did. The […]
5 Questions and A Secret: Green Salmon coffee roaster Adrian Beatty
By JORDAN ESSOE/YachatsNews.com In the summertime, when tourist traffic is at its peak, Adrian Beatty sometimes shows up to work at the Green Salmon Coffee Company as early as […]
5 Questions and a Secret: Rural route mail carriers Michael and Cherish Nowatchik
By JORDAN ESSOE/YachatsNews The husband-and-wife team of Michael and Cherish Nowatchik, both 34, are Waldport’s newest mail carriers. Last August they took up what is referred to internally by […]
5 Questions and a Secret: Marc and Jen Taylor of Styx, Stones n’ Bones shop in Yachats
Editor’s note: This is a new feature called “5 Questions and a Secret” where we will be doing bite-sized profiles of community members and asking them to answer five […]