City commission votes to recommend that vendor group run Sunday market

April 18, 2019

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com The Yachats Parks and Commons Commission will recommend to the City Council that a new, vendor-run group take over management of the popular Sunday food and craft fair in downtown. Four of the five commissioners Thursday preferred a proposal from a vendor’s group organized by Starla Gade of Waldport. That proposal beat out one from Blythe Collins,

City unveils drawings for library expansion as commission reaffirms support

April 11, 2019

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com The city of Yachats unveiled an engineer’s drawing of the proposed expansion and remodel of the library building Thursday, likely bringing to close years of debate over moving it, expanding it or doing nothing. Facilities manager Heather Hoen showed the drawing and building schematics to the Library Commission, saying the city would be seeking bids for the

Finance Committee has first peek at draft city budget — and gets asked for cuts

April 11, 2019

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com The Yachats Finance Committee got a first glimpse Wednesday of a draft 2019-20 city budget for capital projects and was immediately asked to look for ways to trim $1 million from $1.8 million in requests. “We’re all going to need to chip in to find sources of revenue and cuts,” City Manager Shannon Beaucaire said as she

Public works commission makes headway – but no decision – on possible water rate problem

April 10, 2019

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com The Yachats Public Works and Streets Commission may be closer to discovering how much the city might be undercharging some businesses for water use – but is apparently no closer to deciding what to do about it. The commission got a report Tuesday from chairman Bob Bennett who spent the several weeks studying if the city has

City sets up formal process to determine who manages Yachats Farmers Market

April 5, 2019

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com The city of Yachats stepped in Friday to formalize the process for operating the Yachats Farmers Market after efforts by two groups hoping to organize it apparently spiraled into confusion and acrimony. The deadline to submit applications to operate a “vendor-run market” is noon Friday, April 12, City Manager Shannon Beaucaire announced Friday. The city will

Yachats council will begin discussing some sort of ban on single-use plastics

April 5, 2019

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com The Yachats City Council in May will begin working on an ordinance that could prohibit single-use plastic bags and possibly plastic containers in the city. Council members discussed their views on plastics during their meeting Wednesday, and agreed to begin working on an ordinance for Yachats should the Oregon Legislature adjourn in July without creating a statewide

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Tempers flare in long running Yachats Brewing permit issue

April 5, 2019

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com The owner of Yachats Brewing and Farmstore says he plans to re-submit long-awaited plans to Lincoln County next week in order to get building permits for his businesses open for almost five years without them. But the submittal by Nathan Bernard – three months after they were originally promised – came after a loud and profane blowup

Yachats council wavers on forming business advisory committee

April 4, 2019

It may be awhile – if ever — before the Yachats City Council forms a special committee of business owners to help determine how to spend lodging taxes collected by the city. The idea of a committee came up in February after the council proposed increasing the city’s lodging tax by one percentage point to 10 percent. That idea was

Yachats commission OKs yearly museum budget but asks for increased fundraising

March 21, 2019

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com The Yachats Parks and Commons Commission on Thursday approved a yearly budget for the city-owned Little Log Church and Museum, but not before warning the museum board that it has to do a lot better job at fundraising. In a city budget of $1.7 million, the $15,900 spent on yearly operating costs for the church and museum

Yachats council discusses issues with county commissioners

March 21, 2019

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com The Yachats City Council spent an hour Wednesday night meeting with the three Lincoln County commissioners, getting the county’s view — and asking a few questions — on a laundry list of issues. The meeting was a yearly visit by the Newport-based commission to visit city councils in all the county’s incorporated areas. While commissioners and county