WALDPORT – The Waldport community and educators at its two schools are reeling from the death of a beloved second-grade teacher in a head-on crash Tuesday on U.S. Highway […]
By DANA TIMS/YachatsNews Oregon’s commercial fishing industry had a solid, if not record-breaking, year in 2023, according to a new report from the state Employment Department. Statistics covering everything […]
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews YACHATS – A man who camped and rented the past two years around Yachats is presumed drowned after he attempted to rescue a woman and her […]
By GARRET JAROS/YachatsNews WALDPORT – Waldport city councilors let loose a collective cheer when they learned work on the long-awaited plan to build a sidewalk along a portion of […]
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews WALDPORT – The Central Oregon Coast Fire & Rescue District board voted unanimously Thursday to ask voters in November to increase their property taxes to help […]
By GARRET JAROS/YachatsNews YACHATS — A Florida man was rescued relatively unscathed from Devils Churn on Tuesday after tripping while taking a photo and falling about 15 feet into […]
By GARRET JAROS/YachatsNews WALDPORT – Arson is suspected as the cause of a fire early Monday that did an estimated $100,000 to $150,000 damage to Our Savior Lutheran Church […]
By CHERYL ROMANO/YachatsNews YACHATS — After 10 years with the city’s only public children’s center, the executive director of Yachats Youth and Family Activities Program is leaving. Patricia Hettinger, […]
By BARBARA B. COVELL/YachatsNews Gary Herd began acting in elementary school in Abilene, Texas and still remembers his lines and songs from the school’s annual Christmas show. “I acted […]
By GARRET JAROS/YachatsNews A rising wind piggybacks on an incoming tide and howls through the riggings of fishing boats docked on Yaquina Bay. Below the wind a gaggle of […]
