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By JORDAN ESSOE/YachatsNews.com SEAL ROCK – Facing staffing deficits, a tight budget, unexpected equipment repairs and external criticism, Seal Rock Rural Fire Protection District is accelerating its plan to deploy an emerging unit of volunteer responders. Since March, Seal Rock has lost all four of its full-time paid firefighters. The last to leave, Derek Udoutch has taken a new

By the Oregon Capital Chronicle and YachatsNews.com A nonprofit proposing to build 44 low-income apartments in Lincoln City is getting almost $4 million from the Oregon Housing Stability Council for people displaced by the Labor Day 2020 wildfires that burned nearly 300 homes in Otis. The project by Stewardship Development of Eugene is one of 10 projects that

WALDPORT — The sun came out for the 66th annual Beachcomber Days. So did crowds of thousands of people, families young and old. A parade marched through town, kids waving at the entrants and scrambling for candy, beach balls and frisbees. Vendors lined the streets to hawk their goods and gear and food booths were doing a brisk business. Bands

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com WALDPORT – The Central Oregon Coast Fire & Rescue board was left without a quorum to conduct business Thursday night after two board members resigned this week and a recalled member did not show for a meeting. With just two of five members at its monthly meeting, board member Reda Eckerman said she will ask Lincoln

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com YACHATS – The Yachats Rural Fire Protection District board is betting big that history won’t repeat itself. The board voted 4-0 this week to ask district voters in November to approve a new tax levy that would add $300 a year onto the tax bill for property assessed at $300,000. The district has been struggling financially

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com WALDPORT – Lincoln County Sheriff’s Deputy Zach Akin and Central Oregon Coast Fire & Rescue Lt. Shi Bucher said they had no choice but to go into the ocean Tuesday to rescue two brothers who had been swept away by a riptide at Governor Patterson State Park. “In my mind there was no decision. It was

The U.S. Coast Guard is making it a family affair for the commanders in charge of two major Coast Guard stations along the Oregon coast. Master Chief Scott Slade assumed command of U.S. Coast Guard Station Coos Bay from his wife, Chief Warrant Officer Beth Slade during a ceremony Friday at the rescue station in Charleston. Beth Slade is

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com WALDPORT – The chair of the Central Oregon Coast Fire & Rescue board, who had collaborated unsuccessfully with two recently recalled board members to try to fire the district’s chief, resigned as expected Monday. Buster Pankey, who like Todd Holt and Kathryn Menefee took office last July, submitted a one-sentence letter of resignation, effective immediately. Holt