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By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com Lincoln County cannot  go into the second phase of the Oregon’s coronavirus reopening process until at least Sept. 8, Gov. Kate Brown said in a letter to county commissioners Thursday. The county had applied to enter Phase 2 effective Monday — if commissioners still felt comfortable with proceeding with looser restrictions on public gatherings and opening

By DANA TIMS/YachatsNews.com It’s hard to know what a post-coronavirus world will look like for Oregon’s central coast and how its businesses and individuals will go about piecing back together anything that looks like normal. But for Yachats and surrounding communities it’s a good bet that proximity to Cape Perpetua and its state-protected marine reserve area will play a

By DANA TIMS/YachatsNews.com In any normal year, Lincoln County schools would be gearing up to welcome nearly 5,500 students back to 11 campuses scattered along a 55-mile-long stretch of the Oregon coast. Needless to say, this isn’t a normal year. The same coronavirus that halted in-person instruction in March continues to rage across the county and the state. Now, with

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com Kim Mobley typically takes pictures of tide pools, rocky beaches, ocean waves, sunsets, flowers, and her trick dog Koby. But when the newly discovered Comet Neowise appeared in the inner solar system for the first time in thousands of years, she turned her attention to the night sky for two weeks in July. “I do a

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com Jim Peterson and Eric Meyer’s neighborhood sits on an ancient lava shelf where Cape Foulweather plummets into the Pacific Ocean south of Depoe Bay. The views in the Miroco neighborhood are stunning. The neighborhood, serviced by a one-lane road, is usually quiet. It’s an area of 59 houses, including many new or remodeled, and oceanfront homes

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com The head of Lincoln County’s health department is sounding a warning about coronavirus testing, saying that supplies are dwindling in Oregon and test results are taking too long to help stop the spread of the illness. Rebecca Austen, director of Lincoln County Public Health, told the Yachats City Council on Wednesday night that testing is headed

By CHERYL ROMANO/YachatsNews.com WALDPORT — One Sunday in early June, Jim Sehl had to do something “just tragic” — he suspended the free meal program at the Waldport Moose Lodge. For the next 17 days, the homeless, the jobless and the just plain hungry had to find food elsewhere or do without. In the wake of a surge of COVID-19

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com and CHRISTIAN WIHTOL/The Lund Report The willingness of Oregonians to try to stem COVID-19 cases started Wednesday when residents and visitors in Lincoln County and six other jurisdictions came under a state requirement to wear face coverings in public. But it was a backlash to a week-old county directive that overshadowed implementation of the state order in

By CHERYL ROMANO/YachatsNews.com A homeless man approaches Bob Barrett one misty May morning as he goes to work at Yachats Community Presbyterian Church. The man is there to see if Barrett – known throughout Yachats as “Pastor Bob” — has a line on an apartment. Barrett is friendly, open, welcoming. Moments later someone from Oregon Gov. Kate Brown’s office