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WALDPORT – There will be lots of opportunities in November to join the Waldport city council – you just have to file some paperwork this month to get on the ballot Nov. 8. There will be elections for mayor and four council positions in the general election. Waldport voters elect a mayor every two years and some of the

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com The Lincoln County Sheriff’s deputies are no longer responding to nuisance and some lower-level criminal complaints in Yachats and unincorporated areas of the county because of a lack of patrol deputies. The order by Sheriff Curtis Landers took effect Sunday. Landers said the unprecedented change was “due to an extraordinary low number of deputies available to

By Oregon ArtsWatch Should you be driving along Yaquina Bay Road east of Newport and find yourself tootling along behind a green Subaru, before you hit the horn or flash that universally understood gesture, consider — you may be following a renowned artist at work. That would be Sandra Roumagoux, prominent Oregon painter, three-time mayor of Newport, educator, activist and

YACHATS — If you like your bluegrass spiced with swing, ragtime, jazz and Americana music, the Yachats Commons is the place to be for a special concert Sunday, Aug. 7. Damn Tall Buildings, a Brooklyn, N.Y.-based trio, headlines the evening, which starts at 6 p.m. with special guests Cary Novotny and Brongaene Griffin, a Portland-based duo. “Bluegrass at heart,

NEWPORT — Dipping into its allocation of $9.2 million in federal economic recovery money, Lincoln County commissioners have approved 39 projects totaling $5.1 million to help make it more efficient, improve customer service and upgrade technology and other equipment. The money comes from $65 billion allocated to counties across the country as part of the $350 billion American Rescue

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com WALDPORT – The city of Waldport has some new, old baseball and softball fields. The Lincoln County School District has deeded over 3.58 acres of property containing Kendall Field to the city with the idea that it and the Waldport Junior League Sports Association will do more to care and improve them. “It just makes