What should Yachats’ lodging tax be? City council begins discussing possible raise from 9 percent to ???

December 7, 2023

By GARRET JAROS/YachatsNews YACHATS – There appears to be little question whether Yachats will raise its lodging tax on motels and vacation rentals. What is undecided is the percentage increase and when it might take effect. The subject of raising the city’s 9 percent room tax, which is the biggest source of revenue for the city, came up during a

After a surprisingly quick year of planning, designing and fundraising, work begins on Yachats’ new skatepark

December 6, 2023

By GARRET JAROS/YachatsNews YACHATS – Building a skate park in a town awash in retirees might seem like a ploy to entice the grandchildren to visit — but it can also be an amenity as popular as playgrounds that attract not only the young but the young at heart. “When you ride your skateboard it’s kind of like when

Yachats’ new city manager believes her “can-do” spirit and work ethic will bring stability to position plagued by turnover

November 30, 2023

By GARRET JAROS/YachatsNews When December dawns the slippery reins of Yachats city manager will fall into the capable but untested hands of Waldport native Bobbi Price who credits her family for instilling the can-do spirit that has characterized her career. Price graduated from Waldport High School in 2001, attended Portland State University for just over a year before deciding

After years of debate and delay, city of Yachats says repairs to Little Log Church Museum should begin in February

November 22, 2023

By GARRET JAROS/YachatsNews YACHATS – If the weather cooperates, repairs on the Little Log Church Museum will begin in February. After several years of community wrangling about whether to refurbish or raze the historic building completed by volunteers in 1930, along with feasibility studies and money set aside for its resurrection, the plan to move forward has been met

Yachats chamber receives $100,000 grant to help fund tourist trolley but the city misses out

November 18, 2023

YACHATS — Efforts to bring a tourist-style trolley to Yachats have run into a snag after Travel Oregon announced Thursday that while the Yachats Area Chamber of Commerce received the $100,000 grant it sought the city did not. Each had applied for $100,000 grants under Travel Oregon’s accessible and inclusive program to help purchase a 14-passenger $230,000 hybrid gas-electric

Yachats commission will ask city council to raze library and instead plan for new $1.46 million building

November 16, 2023

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews YACHATS – The Yachats Library Commission voted unanimously Thursday to ask the city council if it can proceed with plans to tear down the library on West Seventh Street and work on a slightly revised design for an entirely new structure. That’s a departure of 18 months of planning to remodel and expand the 2,400-square foot

The mystery of a $1,866 monthly Yachats water bill is solved. (Hint: Is your toilet running?)

November 15, 2023

BY GARRET JAROS/YachatsNews YACHATS – The mystery of the Yachats water bill run amuck is solved. Stephen Issac, who lives alone and whose monthly water bill averages $130, was stunned when he saw two massive and intermittent spikes this year — $876 in May and $1,866 in August. Isaac called the city after his May bill and explained that

Yachats chamber names co-directors to oversee its operations as Price prepares to take city job

November 13, 2023

BY GARRET JAROS/YachatsNews YACHATS – A tandem team has stepped into the breach at the Yachats Area Chamber of Commerce to fill the vacancy left by the departing executive director. Mindy Parsons and Nichole Lippincott will collaborate to cover all things chamber as they move the organization into the future on the heels of director Bobbi Price, who begins

Soil tests for Yachats library project throw a monkey wrench into $1 million expansion plans

November 2, 2023

By CHERYL ROMANO/YachatsNews YACHATS — The plan all along had been to renovate and expand the 50-year-old Yachats Library on West Seventh Street with a $1.09 million makeover. But soil tests have dictated a “course correction”, in the words of one project leader. In early September, Foundation Engineering of Corvallis discovered it had to drill down 20 feet to

Yachats council asks staff to develop homeless camping ordinance so it can begin some type of enforcement

November 2, 2023

By GARRET JAROS/YachatsNews YACHATS – Getting an ordinance on the books to addresses homeless camping in Yachats moved forward Thursday with a request by the city council that staff pen a rough draft highlighting where camping will not be allowed. Yachats is the only city in Lincoln County without a public camping ordinance, which results in no enforcement options

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What should Yachats’ lodging tax be? City council begins discussing possible raise from 9 percent to ???

After a surprisingly quick year of planning, designing and fundraising, work begins on Yachats’ new skatepark

Yachats’ new city manager believes her “can-do” spirit and work ethic will bring stability to position plagued by turnover

After years of debate and delay, city of Yachats says repairs to Little Log Church Museum should begin in February

Yachats chamber receives $100,000 grant to help fund tourist trolley but the city misses out

Yachats commission will ask city council to raze library and instead plan for new $1.46 million building

The mystery of a $1,866 monthly Yachats water bill is solved. (Hint: Is your toilet running?)

Yachats chamber names co-directors to oversee its operations as Price prepares to take city job

Soil tests for Yachats library project throw a monkey wrench into $1 million expansion plans

Yachats council asks staff to develop homeless camping ordinance so it can begin some type of enforcement

Letters from readers

Whale’s entanglement shows need for better derelict gear removal program

Sen. Anderson’s chief of staff out of bounds on ICE and Newport “boomer hippies” remarks

A farewell letter to the Yachats whale

Yes, everyone in Waldport community should refrain from further attacks

The community speaks — ICE detention center not welcome in Newport

Let’s show some grace to all involved in whale’s attempted, emotional rescue

Obituaries

Jon M. French of Waldport

Joe Chapman of Tenmile

Ruth R. Mock of Yachats — “Fiddlin Ruth”

Civic Calendar

City of Yachats Parks & Commons Commission

Yachats Big Band monthly concert

Yachats Rural Fire Protection District board

Yachats Planning Commission monthly workshop meeting

Yachats Public Works & Streets Commission

Lincoln County School District board of directors

Waldport City Council

Lincoln Soil and Water Conservation District monthly board meeting

Newport City Council work session and regular meeting

Southwest Lincoln Water People’s Utility District board

Public & Legal Notices

CITY OF NEWPORT, OREGON NOTICE OF SUPPLEMENTAL BUDGET PUBLIC HEARING

The Board of Directors of the Lincoln County School District, Public Hearing regarding Newport High School

The Board of Directors of the Lincoln County School District, Public Hearing regarding Waldport High School