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By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews In a perfect world a trades education center would already be up and running on the main campus of Oregon Coast Community College in Newport. College officials began working on plans for such a center seven years ago. But its board and administrators decided to pivot from 2018-20 to the task of gaining independent accreditation, and

By CHERYL ROMANO/YachatsNews Voters in several small cities and unincorporated areas of Lincoln County will have a chance to decide whether to help keep library services going in the May 21 primary election. The Lincoln County Library District is asking voters to renew a levy of nine cents per $1,000 assessed property value for five years. If approved, the

Lincoln County chief deputy district attorney Jenna Wallace, left, and Newport defense attorney Kathryn Benfield are seeking election as district attorney in the May primary. By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews Jenna Wallace hadn’t anticipated seeking election to become a district attorney. Not yet, anyway. Wallace has been a prosecutor in the Lincoln County district attorney’s office since 2022 after stints in

By CHERYL ROMANO/YachatsNews YACHATS — You don’t have to be in recovery to enjoy an alcohol-free dance party. That point was made emphatically last winter when almost 100 people turned out for what was billed at the time as a “sober dance party” at the Yachats Commons. “That was a real eye-opener,” said local businesswoman Cheri Capron. So much

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews WALDPORT – The Central Oregon Coast Fire & Rescue board will soon be asking district residents if they would support a bond ranging from $7 million to $10 million to either remodel its downtown Waldport fire station, buy equipment and build a new Five Rivers sub-station or construct a new station outside the tsunami zone. Seems