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NEWPORT – The Oregon Coast Community College board intends to ask Lincoln County voters in May to approve a $32 million bond to replace one expiring next year. The bond would be used to build a facility on its Newport campus to house new trades programs and make upgrades to facilities on that campus and at satellite campuses in

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews If you buy a fresh Oregon Dungeness crab from the market this weekend, you’ll pay around $7.95 a pound – half what it cost this time last year. But because of the dynamics of the industry – and the law of supply and demand – the crabber who has hundreds of thousands of dollars tied up

By SUSAN PALMER/YachatsNews If you visit Florence at the end of January, be prepared for music, lots of it, breaking out spontaneously almost anywhere. That’s what happens when bluegrass musicians come to town. The Florence Winter Music Festival, celebrating its 20th anniversary, gets underway Thursday, Jan. 26, kicking off with a daytime concert for area students and an open

By KENNETH LIPP/YachatsNews Lincoln County’s legislators are optimistic about cooperation in Salem as they head to the Capitol to tackle ambitious goals for the 2023 session. Gov. Tina Kotek and both Democrats and Republicans in the Oregon Legislature have identified priorities for this year’s legislative session that, in many areas, overlap. Solutions differ, but on everyone’s list are the

By CHERYL ROMANO/YachatsNews YACHATS — In a scant four months, the new head of the Yachats Chamber of Commerce is making things happen. Since Bobbi Price started her job as executive director of the chamber last fall, she can tick off these boxes: A new Chamber website to support local small businesses, promote membership and schedule events; The first

By KENNETH LIPP/YachatsNews Lincoln County commissioners and coastal legislators are urging Oregon’s new governor to reconsider the exclusion of rural areas from her emergency declaration on homelessness. Gov. Tina Kotek signed three executive orders Jan. 10. Along with a $130 million funding request she’ll make to the 2023 Legislature, the new governor said the orders are the first step