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By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com Lincoln County and Samaritan Health Systems are getting 1,675 doses of COVID-19 vaccines from the state Tuesday, allowing it to reopen registration and add a third day to mass clinics this week at the county fairgrounds in Newport. Lincoln County Public Health paused signups for the clinics Friday after a ultra-cold freezer from the Oregon Health

By CHERYL ROMANO/YachatsNews.com In the first year of her 40-year teaching career, Amanda Middlebrooks remembers showing a little boy pictures of vegetables during a reading class. “What’s that?” the 6-year-old said, pointing to onions. Middlebrooks told him, and he replied, “Oh yes, onions, the enemy of my eyes.” Moments like that are diffused through decades of teaching little ones

By NANCY STEINBERG/Oregon State University Last spring and summer, when some Oregon Dungeness crab fishermen dropped their pots into coastal waters, they were gathering more than just the leggy delicacy. In partnership with Oregon State University researchers, they were collecting critical data on oxygen levels in Oregon’s ocean via small sensors attached to their crab pots. The data they

By DANA TIMS/YachatsNews.com The first doses of a groundbreaking vaccine deemed effective at combating COVID-19 arrived Thursday in Lincoln County. The arrival means that within a day or two, a hastily assembled network of medical professionals and providers will swing into action in an effort to halt a virus that has infected tens of thousands in Oregon and millions

By DANA TIMS/YachatsNews.com New surveys are showing a dramatic reversal of the 7-year-old die off that threatened to snuff out the iconic ochre sea stars populating Oregon coast tide pools. But the outlook for other sea star species – commonly referred to as star fish, except that they aren’t true fish – remains grim, scientists and researchers say. Seven

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com The Yachats City Council will have a new look and likely a lot of new issues starting January, according to returns Tuesday night from the Lincoln County elections department. With 99 percent of the votes counted countywide in Tuesday’s general election, Councilor Leslie Vaaler easily defeated incumbent John Moore 434 to 232 to become the city’s

It’s election day 2020 – and YachatsNews will have results for races in Yachats, Waldport, Lincoln County, and coastal legislative and statewide contests Tuesday night. As of Monday night, almost 70 percent of 38,500 ballots have been returned in Lincoln County. That means results from those ballots will be released by the elections department shortly after 8 o’clock Tuesday night.