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By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com WALDPORT – The city of Waldport is going to make a run at purchasing the hulking, former middle school building and garden area that the Lincoln County School District has been trying to sell since the spring. The Waldport city council last week authorized city manager Dann Cutter to make the school district an offer to

Compiled from the Salem Statesman Journal and YachatsNews.com It’s mushroom season on the Oregon coast. The prize of the local fungi group is the Pacific golden chanterelle, which was declared Oregon’s official state mushroom in 1999 and begins popping up shortly after fall rains begin. But, many people don’t know that the chanterelle season starts way before the rains,

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com WALDPORT – The contentious issue of ownership of the main fire station in downtown Waldport may be settled – for one to five years, at least. Now all the city of Waldport and Central Oregon Coast Fire & Rescue need to do is convince the 2023 Legislature to give it $4.4 million to help the city

An advisory board appointed to combat homelessness in Lincoln County has selected six firms to compete for the right to oversee administration of the effort. Interviews will take place after members of the Lincoln County Homeless Advisory Board have reviewed proposals submitted by the firms. The effort, expected to cost $200,000, is part of a larger, $400 million statewide effort

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com YACHATS – Zachary Stocks is heavily involved in the Oregon coast tourism industry. The native of Williamsburg, Va. has worked on the tall ships that visited ports up and down Oregon and Washington. He’s currently an interpretive guide at Lewis and Clark National Historical Park in Astoria. As the executive director of a statewide historical group,

By DANA TIMS/YachatsNews.com YACHATS — After a two-year, Covid-imposed hiatus, the Yachats Mushroom Festival returns Friday for a three-day run that’s expected to draw considerable numbers of fungi-lovers. Mycology experts from around the state are participating in the event, which includes educational talks, guided walks, workshops and mushroom identification tables. “This is a great opportunity to come out for

By MATEUSZ PERKOWSKI/Oregon Capital Press SILETZ — As an island of agriculture in a sea of timber production, the owners of Gibson Farms have learned to take advantage of the operation’s distinctive circumstances. A hook-shaped bend in the Siletz River has blessed the 200-acre farm with a rare stretch of flat, open ground in an otherwise forested, mountainous landscape.