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By Quinton Smith/YachatsNews.com Now that the city of Yachats is about to gain ownership of Ocean View Drive, the city’s Parks & Commons Commission believes it’s also time to create two small “pocket parks” overlooking the Pacific near where it intersects Seventh and Fourth streets. Commission members and members of the Yachats Trails Committee have been talking about the

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com The Yachats City Council will complete its fourth and last preliminary interview with a city manager candidate Friday morning and then will decide whom to bring in for a final round of in-person interviews. The council has been meeting in executive, or closed, sessions this week to conduct the first round of interviews. Fourteen people had applied

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com The Yachats City Council has approved up to $12,000 to weatherproof the city’s deteriorating Little Log Church & Museum for the winter. But once that is done, council members indicated last week they want a wider community discussion on the future of the two buildings before deciding whether to spend an estimated $575,000 to repair them.

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com The Yachats City Council resumed its public thrashing around Wednesday over hiring a former contractor to handle some bookkeeping and administrative functions at City Hall after she turned down a job offer that contained a council-mandated salary that she considered too low. But after another discussion, the council voted unanimously to authorized interim City Manager Katherine

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com The Yachats City Council showed Wednesday what can happen when an inexperienced and mostly rudderless group is working with an inexperienced city planner asked to also be the interim  city manager. After two hours of disorganized and often acrimonious discussion during a special meeting, the council was able to decide how to proceed with advertising for

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com During a week when the lone employee in Yachats City Hall struggled to even answer the phones, it probably wasn’t the best timing for Mayor Leslie Vaaler to ask council members to evaluate their first six months of work. But she did during a workshop meeting Thursday. It did not go well. “We have been in

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com The Yachats Youth and Family Activities Program is getting a new home – but not having to go far. The Yachats City Council has agreed that YYFAP can move from the basement of the Commons building into the former city offices upstairs. The unanimous decision Thursday comes six months after the city’s Parks and Commons Commission

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com The Yachats City Council – despite opposition from the mayor – will spend $10,000 to get a better idea how or if the Little Log Church and Museum can be saved from falling apart. Whether the city will spend possibly hundreds of thousands more to fix or replace it, is still another matter. After two years

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com After months of dithering and delay, the Yachats City Council took a first step Wednesday to get help for the two beleaguered employees in City Hall. The council gave permission to interim city manager Katherine Guenther to post one, possibly two jobs — and maybe seek a new person for a contract code enforcement. But the