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By DANA TIMS/YachatsNews Oregon’s commercial Dungeness crab fishery, after passing a new round of testing, will open Sunday, Jan. 15 from Manzanita to south of Coos Bay, state regulators announced Friday. The season will open Feb. 1 from Cape Falcon, which is near Manzanita, north to the state of Washington, in accordance with testing protocols established by an agency

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews WALDPORT – After weeks of frustration and months of waiting for repairs, the only public laundromat in south Lincoln County should reopen by the end of January. Sweet Homes Vacation Getaways, which bought the SudSea laundromat two years ago, was forced to close it in December after repeated breakdowns, trouble finding contractors to do repairs, and

By KENNETH LIPP/YachatsNews With nine new deputies in training or at the state police academy, Lincoln County patrol deputies returned to their old shift schedule this week after a year-long experiment meant to account for a depleted workforce. Since February, Lincoln County Sheriff’s patrol deputies have worked 12-hour shifts — three days on, two days off, two days on,

By TOM BANSE/Northwest News Network/OPB NEWPORT — The stewards of Oregon’s tallest lighthouse are sprucing up the popular landmark on Oregon’s central coast for its 150th anniversary this year. The 93-foot tall Yaquina Head Lighthouse was completed in 1872, but the lamp on top wasn’t lit until the following year because of a 19th-century version of, get this, supply chain

After YachatsNews reported Wednesday that Kim Segaline had been threatened with eviction days after her husband was arrested for repeatedly assaulting her, Segaline said the owner of her apartment complex’s management company called her to apologize and allowed her until Jan. 15 to move out. Segaline said Grand Management Services owner Kristin Smith contacted her Wednesday afternoon and apologized

By CHERYL ROMANO/YachatsNews About 18 months ago, the Yachats Food Pantry found itself with more groceries than clients. “If you’re hungry, please come,” urged the pantry leader, reminding people of the free food available three days a week. How things have changed. Now, like food banks across Lincoln County, Oregon and the nation, the pantry operated out of Yachats