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By OREGON ARTS WATCH NEWPORT — When guests sit down to the Crab Krack hosted by the Pacific Maritime Heritage Center on Sunday, it will be thanks to the generosity of countless strangers – fishermen, artists, businesses, and, of course, the visitors and members who support the center. Like nonprofits everywhere, the maritime center exists largely through the largesse

By KENNETH LIPP/YachatsNews YACHATS — The Yachats Rural Fire Protection District Board this week approved a cost-of-living raise and two months of back pay for employees.  During its first meeting of the year Monday, the fire board played catch up on an item typically resolved in December — an annual cost-of-living adjustment for its firefighters and assistant administrator. Seven

By CHERYL ROMANO/YachatsNews YACHATS — After stitching together an internationally-recognized career in the field of art quilts, multi-talented Ruth Bass is producing her last local show in what promises to be a royally-good finale. The Yachats resident is bringing to town an art quilts exhibition themed simply “Diana,” a tribute to the late British princess. Some 100 works will

By KENNETH LIPP/YachatsNews WALDPORT — Waldport is on track to join Newport and Lincoln City among Lincoln County municipalities to enact bans and restrictions on plastic takeout materials. Waldport City Council held a first public reading last week of an ordinance that is essentially a carbon copy of one implemented Jan. 1 in Newport  — city manager Dann Cutter

By The Salem Statesman Journal The number of people visiting Oregon’s outdoors plateaued just below record numbers in 2022 during another year of packed campgrounds and busy trailheads across the state. Oregon’s state park system recorded 52.2 million day visits and 2.97 million camper nights last year, the second-highest in the agency’s 100-year history. The numbers were down slightly

By KENNETH LIPP/YachatsNews WALDPORT — A new law regulating where homeless people can camp in the city of Waldport could be in place in April. During its regular meeting Thursday, the Waldport city council unanimously decided to move forward with an ordinance that would add language defining permissible camping on private and public property. Councilors expressed reticence at making

By DANA TIMS/YachatsNews There are many factors that fishermen can’t control – the weather, the price of fuel, and oftentimes the price of Dungeness crab. One thing they have absolute control over, however, is whether to fish at all. And that’s what a significant portion of the Newport fleet chose not to do for nearly two weeks recently in

Waldport and Toledo high schools are getting $1.2 million to increase their graduates’ participation in college or training programs over the next seven years. The two Lincoln County school are the recipients of more than a third of the $3.5 million in federal funds coming to the Oregon GEAR UP program, administered by Oregon State University. The GEAR UP

By CHERYL ROMANO/YachatsNews The man accused of killing former Yachats resident Martin “Marty” Baker has been found guilty of second-degree murder. Less than three hours after closing arguments were made Feb. 1 in San Diego County Superior Court, a jury returned the guilty verdict against Eugene “Gene” Focarelli, 39. The charge stemmed from a February 2021 beating of Baker, a