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The holiday season starts crackling like a Yule log this weekend. From Yachats to Seal Rock to Waldport, local events — free to enjoy and all family-friendly — begin Saturday. One of the more traditional attractions is “Breakfast with Santa,” returning to the Yachats Lions Club Hall for the first time since 2019. The free pancake breakfast (although donations are

By CHERYL ROMANO/YachatsNews.com WALDPORT — About 40 young children in the Waldport-Yachats area will be getting free bicycles this year, courtesy of the Green Bike Co-op in Waldport. A tradition for a dozen years, the holiday bike giveaway grants the wishes of kids whose families can’t afford to pay for bikes themselves. Green Bike is an all-volunteer nonprofit group

Spending by visitors in four northwest Oregon coastal counties has mostly rebounded from the two-year coronavirus pandemic and is expected to fully recover in 2023, according to a new analysis by the Oregon Employment Department. Visitor spending rose to $1.46 billion in northwest Oregon in 2021 – an increase of 46.4 percent from 2020 after adjusting for inflation, according

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com A Lincoln County circuit judge has denied a request by the owner of three vacation rentals in the Bayshore area of Waldport to require the sheriff’s office to issue a rental license to potential new buyers of one of his properties. Judge Amanda Benjamin issued her ruling Wednesday, a week after hearing oral arguments on the

By DANA TIMS/YachatsNews.com A year ago, Taunette Dixon, along with the rest of Oregon’s $60 million commercial Dungeness crabbing industry, was dining on a diet of decidedly good news. Negotiated prices between boat owners and processors opened about $2 per pound higher than most years, all but guaranteeing profits in the lucrative first two months of a normal year.

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com YACHATS – Don Dougherty’s friends – at least 150 of them — and family came out to his 65th birthday party Sunday evening, although several said he would have balked at the attention. They shared a meal, a drink or two, listened to “Birthday” by the Beatles and “Aqualung” by Jethro Tull – and told stories

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com WALDPORT – It may have been Louis Southworth’s unveiling, but it was Jesse Dolin’s doing. Eighteen months after he suggested to the city of Waldport that it name a big, new downtown park after Louis Southworth, Dolin helped unveil the life-sized statue of the former slave who bought his freedom and homesteaded along Darkey Creek just