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By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com Lincoln County commissioners Wednesday extended their moratorium on new vacation rental licenses for another six months and said they need to have detailed discussions on how and where to limit such rentals in five unincorporated areas west of U.S. Highway 101. The decision comes after the Oregon Land Use Board of Appeals ruled Aug. 8 that a

By CHERYL ROMANO/YachatsNews.com YACHATS — Yachats’ summer season comes to an unofficial close this weekend with a rich lineup of events. From handmade crafts to hand-poured pancakes, bargain books to free, live music, there’s no shortage of activities and attractions to spark the holiday weekend. Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 3-4 Yachats Ladies Club craft bazaar, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.,

By QUINTON SMITH and JORDAN ESSOE/YachatsNews.com WALDPORT – A 2½-year-old agreement between the Central Oregon Coast and Seal Rock fire departments to share personnel and equipment is all but dead – if the two agencies can even agree whether it still exists. So the question is – what, if anything — happens next? The newly-reconstituted board of the Central

By OREGON ARTSWATCH NEWPORT — The brass band played, the crowd stood, and the Oregon Coast Art Bus crept into view, a rolling mass of color on a rolling fog gray day. It was a deceptively simple debut, coming after months of tackling the logistics of taking the license plate-sized “Celebrate Oregon” art and wrapping it around a full-sized bus.

It’s official — the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife has approved rules to allow a limited fishery for wild coho salmon on four streams in Lincoln County. Fishing for fall Chinook salmon in most coastal bays and rivers opened Aug. 1. Now, there will be an opportunity to keep one mid-coast Oregon coho, which is listed as threatened

 As students prepare to return to school, districts are offering bonuses and pay raises to attract and retain much needed teachers and school staff.  By ALEX BAUMHARDT/Oregon Capital Chronicle Districts plan on spending millions of dollars in state and federal funds to pay teachers higher salaries and offer hiring and retention bonuses to fully staff schools by Sept. 1. Nearly

WALDPORT – Central Oregon Coast Fire & Rescue will ask voters to increase one of its two operating levies by 10 cents per $1,000 assessed property value in the November general election. The district’s board voted unanimously Thursday night to ask voters to replace a 10-year old levy of 25 cents per $1,000 assessed value with a 35 cent

By CHERYL ROMANO/YachatsNews.com YACHATS — For pre-pandemic newcomers to Yachats, the small city always seemed to kick up a big tide of social and civic affairs. There were art and crafts fairs, pie socials, concerts, solstice celebrations, a major music festival, civic and trails projects, crab and pancake feeds and even meetings. All in person, face-to-face. Those events gave

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com WALDPORT – The Port of Alsea board voted Wednesday to end the lease of a small shop it rents to a commercial sand shrimp processor, saying it needed the space for its own operations. But the board gave Shrimp Daddy’s owner Mike Gatens of Waldport until March 31 to move — six more months than originally

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com A Yachats-based nonprofit development company has received state funding and arranged other financing to proceed with a $10.9 million, 24-unit affordable housing project in Florence. Our Coastal Village of Yachats plans to break ground on the project next April and complete it in May 2024, said company president Layne Morrill of Yachats. Called the Oak Manor