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By CHERYL ROMANO/YachatsNews.com WALDPORT — Pandemic restrictions don’t make anyone happy, but they’ve brought an unexpected boost to the Green Bike Co-op. While the all-volunteer bicycle sharing/selling/repairing group has been around since 2006, it took the 2020 lockdowns to make business bustle. “We had our busiest year during the pandemic,” said Rick Hill, long-time volunteer and former administrator of

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com Juanita and Brett Bovee of Sacramento want an ocean-view house. So do Fred and JoAnne Rentze of Springfield. The Rentze’s have their house underway and the Bovee’s their land prepped and ready to go on the west side of U.S. Highway 101 between Yachats and Waldport. Casey Jones of Pleasant Hill has cleared trees on 15

By CHERYL ROMANO/YachatsNews.com WALDPORT — There’s a woman in Waldport who sees the world differently than most — a slightly cockeyed view rooted in her funny bone, honed by an unconventional past, and manifested in decades of creating cartoons. Theresa McCracken has an offbeat perspective known to many on the central Oregon coast from her monthly cartoons created for

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com Devils Churn is an ocean-worn crack in a massive basalt flow created by a volcano 37 million years ago. Seventy-five yards wide at its mouth, the chute slices 200 yards inland, narrowing to just three or four feet before ending at the base of Cape Perpetua towering 800 feet above. The churn’s wild waves draw thousands

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com Bystanders trying to rescue a California man Thursday from the depths of Devils Churn had him briefly on a makeshift line and then a life ring for 10-15 minutes before the cold surf and an apparent head injury swept him away. Steve Allen, 67, of Walnut Creek, Calif. is missing and presumed drowned after frantic bystanders

By CHERI BRUBAKER/YachatsNews.com WALDPORT — Louis Southworth came to Oregon in the 1850s along the Oregon Trail, a young Black slave owned by a man from Tennessee. He paid $1,000 for his freedom in 1858, eventually making his way to the upper Alsea River bay, where he homesteaded and donated land for the area’s first school. Jesse Dolin

By DANA TIMS and QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com The rapidly deteriorating carcass of a juvenile gray whale that washed ashore this week in Yachats moved out of a rocky cove below Ocean View Drive overnight Sunday, floated into the Yachats River bay at low tide — and then was washed out to sea during high tide Sunday afternoon. The carcass began breaking

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com A young gray whale on the beach in Yachats was likely dead when it washed ashore Monday and could have been killed by orcas that prey on juveniles. Jim Rice, head of the Oregon Marine Mammal Stranding Network at the OSU Marine Mammal Institute in Newport, took measurements and tissue samples of the whale Tuesday so