DELIVERING HOPE: Paramedics, nurses, doctors and lots of volunteers relish new roles as they bring COVID-19 vaccines to Lincoln County residents

March 4, 2021

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com As a supervisor at PacWest Ambulance, Brett Gnaw the past year raced COVID-19 patients to hospitals in Lincoln County and the Willamette Valley. As labor and delivery manager at Samaritan North Lincoln Hospital, nurse Jen Pierce dealt with new mothers and their families before and after they gave birth during the coronavirus lockdown. As a Lincoln

A matter of when, not if: Yachats’ and Oregon coast’s fragile beauty is perched on the edge of disaster, so get prepared

March 1, 2021

By CHERYL ROMANO/YachatsNews.com For decades, people who make their livings forecasting natural disasters have known an unsettling truth about the Pacific Northwest coastline — it’s poised to crumble into the sea. It could happen in a few days or many years, depending on which scientists you follow. But they all seem to agree on one scenario — a shattering

Lincoln County Oregon Building Permits – February 2021

March 1, 2021

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Tuesday update of U.S. 101 repairs: Daytime closure in place all week, crews will now try to retrieve equipment on Saturday

February 22, 2021

UPDATE FOR TUESDAY, Feb. 23 from the Oregon Department of Transportation: The 12-hour closures between Cape Perpetua south of Yachats to Tenmile Creek will stay in place from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. all this week, including Saturday. Flaggers will let travelers through on one lane at Bray’s Point, where the repair work is being done, from 7 p.m.

SPECIAL REPORT: What’s the future of the 85-year-old Yaquina Bay Bridge? Newport and Lincoln County want to know, state says there are no plans — and no money — to replace it

February 11, 2021

By DANA TIMS/YachatsNews.com The Yaquina Bay Bridge is one of the most photographed and recognized architectural structures on the West Coast. Its image adorns everything from international travel magazines and business logos to the sleeve patches worn by Newport police. But for all that adoration, there is also the growing concern that, with the iconic span’s 100th anniversary on

Owner of thriving Luna Sea in Yachats buys former Yuzen restaurant in Seal Rock to open second outlet, even in these crazy times

February 4, 2021

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com Other restaurant owners tell Robert Anthony he’s nuts to be opening a second outlet during a pandemic. He shrugs that he might be. But after record years at his Luna Sea Fish House in Yachats, Anthony is expanding north – buying the former Yuzen Japanese restaurant in Seal Rock. By mid-March or April, it will

Lincoln County Oregon Building Permits – January 2021

February 1, 2021

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Hidden theft, open danger: One Yachats couple’s pursuit of justice for the crime of financial elder abuse

January 28, 2021

SPECIAL TO YACHATSNEWS.COM Linda and Joe Tapal don’t look abused. Their faces aren’t bandaged or bruised; they wear no casts. Yet the Yachats couple suffered what may be the most common type of elder abuse — financial exploitation. Lincoln County Circuit Court Judge Sheryl Bachart last week handed down sentences against Jennifer L. Snyder, 45, of Waldport after her

Lincoln County schedules mass vaccination clinic Friday to work through 500-person waiting list, looks for more clinic sites and doses

January 26, 2021

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com More than 500 people on a long waiting list to get their COVID-19 shot will be able to do so Friday in another mass vaccination clinic at the Lincoln County Fairgrounds in Newport. Lincoln County Public Health is pooling vaccines it is getting this week with supplies from community partners to get 545 doses and clear

Lincoln County schedules another mass vaccination clinic Friday to work through 500-person waiting list, looks for more clinic sites — and doses

January 21, 2021

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com More than 500 people on a long waiting list to get their COVID-19 shot will be able to do so Friday in another mass vaccination clinic at the Lincoln County Fairgrounds in Newport. Lincoln County Public Health is pooling vaccine doses it is getting this week from the state with supplies from community partners to get 545