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With two meetings and three appointments Thursday, Central Oregon Coast fire board has five members again

June 30, 2022
By QUINTON SMITH and CHERYL ROMANO/YachatsNews.com WALDPORT – The Central Oregon Coast Fire & Rescue District is back to having a full, five-member board. Just six hours after Lincoln County commissioners appointed one member to the board, the new three-member majority voted unanimously Thursday evening to appoint two more residents to fill vacant seats. County commissioners Thursday morning voted

Scientists say orca’s death off Oregon coast after becoming entangled in fishing or crabbing gear is a first

June 28, 2022
By DANA TIMS/YachatsNews.com In what scientists and researchers say is a first in Oregon’s coastal waters, a killer whale appears to have died after becoming entangled in fishing or crabbing gear. The orca, believed to be a juvenile, was spotted Sunday by halibut fishermen about 25 miles west of Newport. The grim discovery comes after families of transient killer

Report on Lincoln County income shows it keeping up with increases across Oregon, but remains far behind state’s overall wages

June 27, 2022
By DANA TIMS/YachatsNews.com A new state economic report provides both good and bad news for Lincoln County, as well as four other northwest Oregon coastal counties. The upside of the report, compiled by regional economist Erik Knoder of the Oregon Employment Department, is that average wages in Lincoln County increased nearly 50 percent from 2011 through 2021. That figure

Developers of proposed motel say they will re-think plans after Yachats commission unanimously rejects conditional use permit

June 23, 2022
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com YACHATS – In the end, there were too many unresolved issues. Some 11 months after an original application and eight months after a previously scheduled hearing, the Yachats Planning Commission voted unanimously Tuesday evening to turn down a conditional use permit to allow a hotly debated motel project along Yachats Ocean Road. There was little debate

Doug Sestrich and fellow Oregon coast beach rangers are “eyes and ears and the boots on the ground” for Oregon State Parks

June 23, 2022
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com Doug Sestrich’s job often depends on the ocean’s tide — and sometimes the weather. Two or three days a week, he drives miles of shoreline from Yaquina Bay to Carl Washburne State Park in an Oregon State Parks off-road vehicle looking for everything from trash, to snowy plovers to illegal activity. “My goal is to be

Skyrocking cost to rebuild 540 foot section of East Second Street in Yachats puts project on hold — again

June 23, 2022
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com YACHATS – It’s back to the drawing board for a long-awaiting project to rebuild a 540-foot long portion of East Second Street. The project, which has been advocated by neighbors along the steep narrow city street for years, has been delayed again because construction bids came in 62 percent higher than expected. The main impetus for

Yachats council approves $1.75 million general fund budget for 2022-23, focusing on added staff and starting some projects

June 21, 2022
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com YACHATS – The Yachats city council has approved a spending plan for fiscal 2022-23 starting July 1 that focuses on re-staffing city hall with employees and beginning several significant projects. The city’s more flexible $1.75 million general fund budget represents a small portion of the $14.3 million that the city will have on the books over
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