Yachats Celtic Festival returns after two-year absence to international performers, sold out shows — and some free events

November 7, 2022

BY CHERYL ROMANO/YachatsNews.com YACHATS — Tune up the bagpipes, rosin up the fiddle bows and stand back: the Yachats Celtic Music Festival hits town this weekend with a sold-out roster of famed musicians — plus a whirl of free music and other events. Muffled for the past two years by the coronavirus pandemic, the popular celebration of Celtic music,

In another sign of the political times, Lincoln County clerk’s office counts thousands of general election ballots under unprecedented levels of outside scrutiny

November 3, 2022

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com NEWPORT – By the time the first voting results are released at 8:05 p.m. Tuesday, your ballot will have been handled seven times by Lincoln County clerk’s office employees and “observed” at least twice by volunteers from the local Republican and Democrat parties. For an expected 27,500 returned ballots. Although the clerk’s office handles everything from

A dry fall pushes more black bears into coastal neighborhoods, scrounging for food in preparation for winter hibernation

November 3, 2022

By DANA TIMS/YachatsNews.com Black bears — driven by failures in their normal autumn food supplies — are rummaging through garbage cans up and down Oregon’s central coast and generally alarming residents not used to such blatant fall intrusions. “I’m getting bear calls from all over my district,” said Jason Kirchner, an Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife biologist in

Yachats council gives 82 feet of neglected city street to neighbors, sends limits on hedges, fences and walls back for more work

November 3, 2022

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com YACHATS – The Yachats city council held two public hearings Thursday, approving the donation of a long-neglected and small piece of Shell Street to adjoining property owners but sending back to the Planning Commission new wording on limits to fences, walls and hedges. Both hearings lacked staff reports, recommendations or presentations by staff or commission chairs

OSU wins $4.2 million federal grant to investigate ocean issues affecting Dungeness crab and food web

November 2, 2022

BY MICHELLE KLAMPE/OSU News Service NEWPORT – The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has awarded Oregon State University and its research partners $4.2 million to investigate how multiple climate change-related stressors are impacting marine ecosystems off the coast of Oregon, Washington and northern California. The researchers will focus on two key species — Dungeness crab, which plays a significant economic and

Yachats community will gather Sunday, Nov. 20 to throw Don Dougherty a going-away 65th birthday bash

November 1, 2022

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com YACHATS – Don Dougherty is getting a birthday party and a sendoff. Dougherty, 64, who lived in and around Yachats for the last 30 years, died Friday, Oct. 28 at Samaritan Pacific Communities Hospital in Newport after being found unresponsive in his car parked outside the Yachats Post Office where he had been living. Dougherty would

Columbia Bank is selling its branches in Waldport and Newport, but their new owner — whoever they are — will continue to operate them

November 1, 2022

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com WALDPORT – Columbia Bank is selling – but not closing — its branch offices in Waldport and Newport as a proposed merger with Umpqua Bank nears completion. As part of the merger, proposed in 2021, the U.S.Department of Justice required Columbia to sell 10 of its 150 branches in Oregon, Washington and California to try to

Yachats-area artist changes coasts, careers and now finishing up three years of grueling botanical illustration studies

November 1, 2022

By Oregon ArtsWatch YACHATS — If life had gone according to plan, Dana LaMair and her husband, Mark, would be living the life on a cruiser somewhere off the East Coast. Instead, the two now call home a spot six miles south of Yachats opposite the ocean – a decidedly wilder landscape than the calmer Eastern Seaboard. “My son

With two competing offers for downtown Waldport property, Lincoln County School District pulls back to re-think best use

October 31, 2022

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com WALDPORT – Faced suddenly with at least two competing offers for the former Seashore Family Literacy and Waldport school property in the middle of downtown, the Lincoln County School District has decided to take the property off the market for a few months. Superintendent Karen Gray informed the city of Waldport that the district wants to

73-year-old Yachats Rural Fire Protection District is at a crossroads as voters weigh whether to approve new, large tax levy to fund operations

October 27, 2022

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com YACHATS – The 73-year-old Yachats Rural Fire Protection District is at a crossroads. Do voters approve a district operating levy request of $1.59 in the Nov. 8 general election and continue operations as usual, or do they vote no to force difficult conversations by its five-member board on possible other ways to provide services. In a

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Yachats Celtic Festival returns after two-year absence to international performers, sold out shows — and some free events

In another sign of the political times, Lincoln County clerk’s office counts thousands of general election ballots under unprecedented levels of outside scrutiny

A dry fall pushes more black bears into coastal neighborhoods, scrounging for food in preparation for winter hibernation

Yachats council gives 82 feet of neglected city street to neighbors, sends limits on hedges, fences and walls back for more work

OSU wins $4.2 million federal grant to investigate ocean issues affecting Dungeness crab and food web

Yachats community will gather Sunday, Nov. 20 to throw Don Dougherty a going-away 65th birthday bash

Columbia Bank is selling its branches in Waldport and Newport, but their new owner — whoever they are — will continue to operate them

Yachats-area artist changes coasts, careers and now finishing up three years of grueling botanical illustration studies

With two competing offers for downtown Waldport property, Lincoln County School District pulls back to re-think best use

73-year-old Yachats Rural Fire Protection District is at a crossroads as voters weigh whether to approve new, large tax levy to fund operations

Letters from readers

Commissioner clarifies stance on Veterans Service levy on Nov. 4 ballot

Lincoln County ballot measure is a commitment to our veterans

$25,000 grant will help View the Future’s community conversations

Obituaries

Jon M. French of Waldport

Joe Chapman of Tenmile

Ruth R. Mock of Yachats — “Fiddlin Ruth”

Civic Calendar

Yachats and Central Oregon Coast fire districts consolidation committee meeting

Yachats Big Band monthly concert

Yachats Rural Fire Protection District board

Yachats Planning Commission monthly workshop meeting

Yachats Public Works & Streets Commission

Lincoln County School District board of directors

Waldport City Council

Lincoln Soil and Water Conservation District monthly board meeting

Yachats “open mic” night

Newport City Council work session and regular meeting

Public & Legal Notices

NOTICE TO INTERESTED PERSONS

LEGAL NOTICE: Seal Rock Fire District and East Lincoln County Fire District

NOTICE TO INTERESTED PERSONS