By CHERYL ROMANO/YachatsNews.com YACHATS – It’s a rare, bright spring day and Joanne Kittel – wearing her usual kneepads, rain gear and a reflective vest – is simultaneously transplanting […]
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State park reopens where PacWave conduit work was under way; now OSU-led energy project looks for cable manufacturer
By DANA TIMS/YachatsNews.com First-time visitors to Driftwood Beach State Recreation Site north of Waldport will see what appears to be the perfect spot to enjoy an afternoon picnic — […]
Central Coast Fire budget committee — with 3 board members absent — OKs $1.35 million spending plan for 2022-23
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com WALDPORT – The budget committee for the Central Oregon Coast Fire & Rescue District is recommending the board approve a proposed $1.35 million general fund spending […]
Waldport community, sheriff’s animal control officers unite to locate and capture “Meru,” the runaway German shepherd
By JORDAN ESSOE/YachatsNews.com WALDPORT – After 66 days, Meru is home. The three-year-old white German shepherd disappeared in March after being attacked and chased by a pit bull at […]
Yachats woman who lied in voters pamphlet to win 2019 election pleads guilty to felony, is fined and put on probation
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com A Yachats woman who lied about her background in the Lincoln County voter’s pamphlet three years ago to help get elected to a local fire board, […]
Host of agencies, biologists getting ready for another season of research into endangered silverspot butterfly south of Yachats
By DANA TIMS/YachatsNews.com For the second year in a row, an open-air laboratory is being nurtured south of Yachats as part of a decades-long effort to save the Oregon […]
Yachats budget committee gets first look at 2022-23 spending plan that includes re-staffing city hall, adding public works employees
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com YACHATS – Yachats’s new city manager has proposed a $1.74 million general fund budget for 2022-23 that under a staffing reorganization plan pays for adding five […]
Groups gearing up for dedication of Amanda Trail suspension bridge and special play honoring De-Cuys this weekend
By CHERYL ROMANO/YachatsNews.com YACHATS — Six years in the making, the new Amanda Trail suspension bridge receives its formal — and respectful — welcome Saturday and Sunday. Several activities […]
Have you seen Ronnie? Family and community search for woman who lived in her car the past year around Yachats and Waldport
By CHERYL ROMANO/YachatsNews.com YACHATS – A woman who spent the last year living in her car in and around Yachats abandoned the vehicle nearly three weeks ago, worrying family […]
Yachats council gives unanimous approval to seek engineering design and costs for Ocean View Drive boardwalk
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com YACHATS – The Yachats City Council has given the go-ahead for the next step on what could be a $950,000 project to build a 350-foot boardwalk […]