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By DANA TIMS/YachatsNews.com It’s hard to think about anyone having serious reservations about summer camping along Oregon’s central coast. Tide pools, sand dunes, the incessant thrum of the surf – what’s not to like? In what is emerging as a record-setting year, however, it’s also true that if people don’t have reservations to camp, they are likely to find

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com Erica Henry carefully lifts the netting from the side of the small, improvised tent and squirms underneath. Once partly inside, she begins to poke among the grasses and tiny, wild violets in search of rare caterpillars transplanted weeks earlier from a special breeding program at the Oregon Zoo. That caterpillar carries the hopes and efforts of

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com The Yachats Rural Fire Protection District has announced it will not respond to fires or medical calls inside Yachats Brewing because it lacks building permits and a certificate of occupancy, re-igniting a dispute over a popular brewery and restaurant operating without permits for seven years. Fire district administrator Frankie Petrick sent a letter to the city

By RANDI BJORNSTAD/Eugenescene WALDPORT — Although her college degree from Cornell University was in art, it has taken 92-year-old Jean Esteve of Waldport all the decades since to launch her painting career. “For me this is brand new,” Esteve says. “I’d been intending to paint all my life, but I got nowhere with it.” All those years ago, she

By DANA TIMS/YachatsNews.com Likely pushed by changing ocean conditions, a new and unusual fishery is emerging off the Oregon coast, already surpassing the value of the salmon harvest and forcing the state to enact new rules and regulations. Market squid, after turning up in the most significant numbers ever in 2020, drew a record number of boats this year.

By CHERI BRUBAKER/YachatsNews.com WALDPORT — Alycia Gordon feels cheated of not being able to participate in some traditional high school senior activities. Although back in school and participating in activities the past six weeks after a year of online classes, Lucas Forshee sees the year just “petering out.” Ryan Eriksen didn’t even return in April when students were able

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com A couple rehabilitating a 52-acre farm in the Yachats River valley wants to turn the former Beulah’s and Landmark restaurant property in downtown Yachats into a farm-to-market store next year. Emily and Paul O’Neill are working with designers at Portland State University to see how to best build on the property at the corner of U.S.