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By CHERYL ROMANO/YachatsNews YACHATS — Just 33 days after the City Council agreed to help pay for a homeless shelter, a giant truck backed into the rear parking lot of the Yachats Community Presbyterian Church. Just three hours after that, five shelters had walls and roofs up, almost ready to shield the homeless from winter weather. The prefabricated units

By KENNETH LIPP/YachatsNews A Yachats resident is suing an Otis excavation company for $2.5 million after she slid on ice into its parked trailer along U.S. Highway 101 near Wakonda Beach last year, piercing her vehicle “like a spear” with the trailer’s pointed end and amputating three of her fingers. According to a civil complaint filed in Lincoln County

By KENNETH LIPP/YachatsNews A unanimous vote by Lincoln County commissioners to change the racist name of a road four miles east of Waldport brought applause from a handful of people in the audience at their meeting Wednesday, their second on the topic. Commissioners last week held a hearing on whether to change the name of the short U.S. Forest

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews WALDPORT – The city of Waldport thinks the town has some parking issues. Such as: Cars or other vehicles parked all over some front yards, or on the street right-of-way in front of the property; Signs outside businesses that incorrectly say parking spots are reserved for customers only; Or, just the opposite – large parking lots downtown

By KENNETH LIPP/YachatsNews Three veterans are nearing completion of a self-assigned rescue mission.  The trio of former Marines will arrive in Newport on foot Saturday, 10 days after the anniversary of Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, and six months after leaving Boston Harbor on the anniversary of the Allied invasion of Normandy.  Their trek across 3,365 miles of U.S.

By KENNETH LIPP/YachatsNews Almost 20 years after Lincoln County commissioners declined to change a racist road name east of Waldport, the county now appears poised to rename it for a former slave who lived there 140 years ago. As far as the U.S. Forest Service is concerned, the half-mile stretch of fern- and tree-lined road it owns on the

By KENNETH LIPP/YachatsNews Vacation rental owners in unincorporated Lincoln County have a new set of rules to follow next year, as county commissioners prepare for the most controversial aspect of a 2021 ordinance — determining limits on the number of short-term rental licenses allowed in seven areas. Lincoln County  commissioners held a brief workshop Monday to discuss staff work

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