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By CHERYL ROMANO/YachatsNews.com YACHATS — With two votes — one unanimous, one not — the Yachats city council Wednesday approved and funded a $70,000 emergency shelter proposal for the city’s homeless. The proposal came from a church-based committee of volunteers after a deputy state fire marshal last month informed the city that the Pavilion behind the Yachats Commons could

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com YACHATS – The Yachats Planning Commission on Tuesday unanimously approved a proposal by the owners of the Fireside and Overleaf motels to put four “park model” homes on its property to house employees. The four homes – about 450 square feet each – would sit at the southeast corner of the Fireside property adjacent to U.S.

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com YACHATS – The mayor-elect of Yachats – and the councilor who lost to him in this week’s general election – believe the vote was a reflection of voter frustration the past two years. That’s why Craig Berdie, who got 372 votes, and councilor Ann Stott, who got 267 votes, believe he won after three days of

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com YACHATS – The Yachats city council held two public hearings Thursday, approving the donation of a long-neglected and small piece of Shell Street to adjoining property owners but sending back to the Planning Commission new wording on limits to fences, walls and hedges. Both hearings lacked staff reports, recommendations or presentations by staff or commission chairs

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com YACHATS – A Yachats city councilor who sought the mayor’s office four years ago is facing off against the chair of a city commission frustrated by the council’s inaction on a number of issues the past two years. But whether Councilor Ann Stott or Parks & Commons Commission chair Craig Berdie is elected Yachats

YACHATS – While not quite as crowded a field as two years ago, there are choices for city of Yachats voters Nov. 8 when it comes to electing two council members. Two councilors appointed in 2020 and 2021 – Mary Ellen O’Shaugnessey and Anthony Muirhead — are seeking their first election. Catherine Whitten-Carey, a member of the city’s Parks &

  By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com YACHATS – The Yachats city council may finally have found an engineering report and estimate to repair its shuttered Little Log Church Museum that it likes. A Newport engineering company that regularly works with the city presented a 32-page report to the council Wednesday, outlining what it found needed work – and what did not –

By CHERYL ROMANO/YahatsNews.com YACHATS — Some members of Yachats’ Emergency Preparedness Committee are clashing with the city over how to best help people survive a tsunami. Frustrated by what they see as inaction, they’re circulating a petition to muster support for a proposal to increase the number of “caches” — big metal shipping containers holding emergency supplies. However, City

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com YACHATS – The city’s housing stock is dominated by second homes and vacation rentals, there is adequate land for new construction but most of it is restricted to single-family houses, according to an evolving study of housing in Yachats. The city’s biggest housing need is to encourage more duplexes, townhomes and multi-family projects – but that

By CHERYL ROMANO/YachatsNews.com YACHATS — As of Thursday, Yachats’ venerable, all-volunteer library is still venerable but no longer staffed entirely by volunteers. Traci Miller-Altson of Yachats has been hired as the city’s new, part-time library administrator. The new administrator comes after a comprehensive study in 2020 that recommended hiring a part-time librarian, joining a statewide digital and a countywide