More federal and state campgrounds open this week, but Cape Perpetua Visitor Center remains closed indefinitely

June 18, 2020

By DANA TIMS/YachatsNews.com Camping at the coast is back. Sort of. State and federal campgrounds, along with much of the rest of the coastal economy, have been shut down for the past three months due to coronavirus concerns. Now, on a rolling basis governed both by budgetary realities and lingering worries about the global pandemic, campgrounds and recreation areas

Marine mammal experts remind public not to disturb seal pups on beaches

May 17, 2020

By MICHELLE KLAMPE/OSU News Service Habor seal pups venturing onto Oregon’s beaches this spring need some social distancing, too. Young seal pups are at risk from well-meaning people who mistakenly try to rescue them, said Oregon State University marine mammal biologist Jim Rice. “We’re in the peak of pupping season right now and this past weekend there were several incidents

Parks workers will begin removing barriers Friday to beach day-use areas after state OKs Lincoln County reopening plan

May 14, 2020

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com Oregon State Parks will begin reopening day-use areas Friday along U.S. Highway 101 in Lincoln County after the county got state approval Thursday of its reopening plan for many businesses. Gov. Kate Brown and the Oregon Health Authority approved Lincoln County’s plan on Thursday. Hours later county commissioners gave the go-ahead for restaurants, personal services, gyms

Oregon Hatchery Research Center near Alsea helps contribute to new groundbreaking study on how salmon find their way home

May 4, 2020

Oregon State University researchers, including the director of the Oregon Hatchery Research Center near Alsea, are a step closer to solving one of nature’s most remarkable mysteries: How do salmon, when it’s time to spawn, find their way back from distant ocean locations to the stream where they hatched? A new study into the life cycle of salmon, involving magnetic

Three-year study of Oregon resident gray whales show ocean conditions have big effect on their condition

April 27, 2020

By MICHELLE KLAMPE/OSU News Service NEWPORT — Three years of “health check-ups” on Oregon’s summer resident gray whales shows a compelling relationship between whales’ overall body condition and changing ocean conditions that likely limited availability of prey for the mammals, a new study from Oregon State University indicates. Researchers from the Geospatial Ecology of Marine Megafauna Laboratory at OSU’s Marine

OSU Sea Grant awards $1.15 million for five coastal research projects

March 11, 2020

Oregon Sea Grant, the marine research, public engagement and education program at Oregon State University, has awarded $1.15 million to five OSU scientists to study beach grass, groundfish trawling, sea lions and oysters over the next two years. Oregon Sea Grant receives a share of congressionally appropriated funds every two years that it awards via a competitive process to scientists at

Oregon Gov. Brown issues executive order to have state agencies begin work on climate issues

March 10, 2020

By Jake Thomas/Oregon Capital Bureau Gov. Kate Brown Tuesday directed state agencies to reduce Oregon’s greenhouse gas emissions through more stringent standards for fuels, new buildings and consumer appliances, imposing by order what she couldn’t get from the Legislature. Her order doesn’t exempt any portion of the state from her mandates, a considerable change from legislation that would have spared rural Oregon and some

Funding for coastal early-warning earthquake system once again dies in last days of Legislature

March 10, 2020

By DANA TIMS/YachatsNews.com For the second legislative session in a row, a bill with money to complete an early warning earthquake-alert system along the Oregon coast has failed. The failure was especially bitter for coastal lawmakers and others, since it was one of Gov. Kate Brown’s legislative priorities for the recently completed 35-day “short session,” and because it had drawn

Democrats unwilling to refer cap-and-trade to voters as Oregon GOP walkout goes into a third day

February 26, 2020

By the Oregon Capital Bureau SALEM — With Republican legislators absent from the Capitol for the third day over a proposal to reduce Oregon’s greenhouse gas emissions, Democrats in the House and Senate said they were determined to stand against demands to refer the proposal to voters. Although there are some faint hints of a resolution to the stalemate,

Oregon ‘Cap and Trade’ Legislation: Here’s an explanation of basic questions

February 22, 2020

By CLAIRE WITHYCOMBE and JAKE THOMAS/Oregon Capital Bureau SALEM — The arguments and critiques are flying across the state about Senate Bill 1530, Oregon’s plan to set limits on — and shrink — the state’s greenhouse gas emissions. Proponents of the program say it’s needed in the face of federal inaction on climate change, which is already affecting the

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More federal and state campgrounds open this week, but Cape Perpetua Visitor Center remains closed indefinitely

Marine mammal experts remind public not to disturb seal pups on beaches

Parks workers will begin removing barriers Friday to beach day-use areas after state OKs Lincoln County reopening plan

Oregon Hatchery Research Center near Alsea helps contribute to new groundbreaking study on how salmon find their way home

Three-year study of Oregon resident gray whales show ocean conditions have big effect on their condition

OSU Sea Grant awards $1.15 million for five coastal research projects

Oregon Gov. Brown issues executive order to have state agencies begin work on climate issues

Funding for coastal early-warning earthquake system once again dies in last days of Legislature

Democrats unwilling to refer cap-and-trade to voters as Oregon GOP walkout goes into a third day

Oregon ‘Cap and Trade’ Legislation: Here’s an explanation of basic questions

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