Cleanup crews finish work early Friday on milk spill south of Yachats

March 29, 2019

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com Contractors early Friday finished cleaning up a 5-day-old 2,900 gallon milk spill on the east side of U.S. Highway 101 just south of Yachats. The operation started at 8 p.m. Thursday and was finished at 3 a.m. Friday. NWFF Environmental of Philomath and its contractors removed a foot of dirt from the 30-by-90-foot area, spread lime

One step at a time for Yachats Coastal Gems walking group

March 27, 2019

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com Maryann Brown believes that sitting is bad and walking is good. “First of all, it’s going to get your doctor off your back,” she says. Brown and her group – the Yachats Coastal Gems – want to help keep the doctor away. Each month it organizes walks in Lincoln or north Lane counties, scoping out routes based

2018 rainfall is second lowest in nine years

January 3, 2019

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com Yachats received a bit more than 58 inches of rain in 2018, the second lowest amount in the past nine years, reinforcing worries how the city collects, stores and distributes water during the driest months of summer. When midnight arrived Dec. 31 the rain gauge at the city’s wastewater treatment plant near downtown registered 58.26 inches for