City of Yachats - Page 18

By CHERYL ROMANO/YachatsNews.com YACHATS — Call it a shortage. Call it a crisis. Call it even “not my problem” if you like. But like it or not, Yachats has a housing issue that affects almost everyone. Now, thanks to two state grants totaling $73,000, work has started to see exactly where and how the city might help boost the

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com YACHATS – For the first time in more than a year, Yachats city hall was fully staffed this week. Although the office will remain closed to the public until April 4, this week a receptionist was answering the phones and sorting emails and the planner was planning. A new events coordinator was getting familiar with the

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com YACHATS – After a two-year absence, there will be fireworks and the La de da parade in Yachats over the three-day Fourth of July holiday. The Yachats Chamber of Commerce and the city of Yachats have rescued the fireworks show — but it will occur Saturday, July 2. The quirky, homemade La de da Parade will

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com YACHATS — A city commission that deals with water projects is asking the city council to authorize a separate group to help Yachats get water projects under way and plan better for the future. The request from the Public Works & Streets Commission comes after two years where the city accomplished few, if any, water projects

YACHATS – Yachats city manager Heide Lambert is again asking for patience from the public when it comes to dealing with city hall. Lambert, who started as city manager on Feb. 14, closed city hall at the end of February and plans to keep it closed for the month of March except for scheduled appointments or transactions via the

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com YACHATS – The Yachats City Council voted 3-2 Thursday to seek bids for a structural engineering report so it can get estimates for possible repairs to the city’s deteriorating Little Log Church Museum building. It was the essentially same decision the council made two months ago – except this time Councilor Anthony Muirhead joined Mayor Leslie

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com YACHATS – A Yachats couple who wanted to turn a former restaurant site overlooking the Yachats River into a farm-to-market restaurant and gathering place have abandoned those plans and put the property up for sale. Now, the Yachats Parks & Commons Commission, which is overseeing plans for a boardwalk along Oceanview Drive just west of the

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com YACHATS – When Heide Lambert starts her new job as Yachats city manager Monday, she’ll be walking into a building that has had three managers and a bare-bones staff the past 12 months. Lambert will be facing a tsunami-sized wave of issues in a city where its four commissions want to start projects but are frustrated

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com YACHATS – Yachats’ new city manager will start on Valentine’s Day. The Yachats City Council and soon-to-be manager Heide Lambert of Waldport hope it will be a long love affair. Councilors voted unanimously Friday to offer Lambert a contract with a Monday, Feb. 14 starting date. Lambert told YachatsNews later Friday that she plans to sign the

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com YACHATS – A Waldport city councilor who is the head of a Lincoln and Tillamook county nonprofit is now the leading and lone candidate to become Yachats’ next city manager. Heide Lambert was one of three finalists for the Yachats job in the fall but withdrew her application when she said it would not be good