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YACHATS – The Yachats community saluted a favorite citizen Wednesday night, with 200 admirers of Joanne Kittel filling the Commons multipurpose room to sometimes tearfully honor the tireless advocate for trails, land conservation and Native American truth-telling. When she finally got to speak after all the accolades, the 72-year-old Kittel joked that the event had all the elements of

By QUINTON SMITH/YachtsNews YACHATS — It took some patience, a lot of education and more than a half million dollars, but a long-awaited housing complex for employees of the Fireside Motel and Overleaf Lodge has their first occupants. There was a lot to learn, admits Drew Roslund, managing general partner of the company that operates the two motels. “We

By GARRET JAROS/YachatsNews YACHATS – The Yachats Commons is about to get some much needed and overdue attention to address a backlog of repairs and upgrades.  The city’s new community services coordinator, Krystal Geisinger, presented a list of projects that need tending to the Parks & Commons Commission on Tuesday. Commission members commended Geisinger’s list as organized, thorough, concise

By GARRET JAROS/YachatsNews The light was green at the Yachats city council meeting Wednesday as councilors put the wheels in motion to pursue a local trolley service, a plan for emergency preparedness, secure a backup water supply, shift its interim city manager to a four-day work week, and codify height limits for fences, walls and hedges. Despite reservations about

By GARRET JAROS/YachatsNews YACHATS – Preparing for emergencies big and small is just common sense – whether at the household level with Band-Aids in the medicine cabinet and a spare tire and jack in the car – or at the municipal level with somewhere for community members to shelter during a catastrophe. With that in mind, the city of