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By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews Much of Lincoln County was hit with another series of power outages Tuesday afternoon when two large Central Lincoln Peoples Utility District transmission lines went out affecting more than 19,000 residential and business customers. Central Lincoln found the causes of both outages – ice-laden lines thawing and touching another line – and were undertaking repairs to restore

This is Sunday night’s story; see updated story at the top of the website By QUINTON SMITH and GARRET JAROS/YachatsNews A surprise ice storm knocked out power to wide swaths of Lincoln County on Saturday and Sunday, closing highways connecting the coast to the Willamette Valley and leading the city of Newport on Saturday and Lincoln County on

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews YACHATS – The Yachats fire district will continue to give and receive help on routine calls with its counterpart in Waldport under an “automatic aid” agreement its board tentatively approved Monday. The agreement would replace one from 2011. The Yachats Rural Fire Protection District board agreed the districts should continue to help each other – but

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews Lincoln County has started its temporary winter program for the homeless in Lincoln City even though it has been unable to find and purchase property for a permanent shelter there. The county’s new shelter in Newport and a similar service now in Lincoln City is its first attempt to establish a walk-in shelter system for the

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews WALDPORT – Laura Abel is just trying to bring people together one small pizza at a time. So for 37 straight Sundays – and during the summer at the Waldport Wednesday Market – she has set up shop in a gravel parking lot along U.S. Highway 101 between a coffee shop and cannabis dispensery and given

Editor’s note: A paragraph in this story on response times and units responding to a Dec. 11 trailer fire on the south edge of Waldport has been updated and corrected. By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews Thirteen years of three small local fire districts helping each other out when responding to calls could end in mid-January because of philosophical and