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By DANA TIMS/YachatsNews.com A first-of-its kind effort to address long-term water use and conservation issues on the central Oregon coast is about to have its biggest moment yet. After six years of work, members of the Mid-Coast Water Planning Partnership will go before state officials June 16 to formally present a plan addressing how the central Oregon coast will

By EMILY GREEN/The Lund Report NEWPORT — For most of her adult life, Crystal Johnson was, as she puts it, a minivan-driving soccer mom. A life-long Newport resident, the affable 49-year-old thought the meth addiction she battled in her early 20s was behind her. But when the youngest of her four children was in high school, a family crisis

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com YACHATS – In elementary school, Reba Ortiz went on field trips to Cape Perpetua. During her senior year at Waldport High School, Ortiz volunteered at the Cape Perpetua Visitor Center and did her graduation project on the job of a park ranger. On Wednesday, as the visitor center’s new supervisor, she helped reopen the popular attraction

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com WALDPORT – Two new members of the Central Oregon Coast Fire & Rescue District were resoundingly recalled by voters Tuesday after the first major count of ballots in a special election. With 97 percent of all ballots counted Tuesday night and more Wednesday, the Lincoln County elections department said Todd Holt of Waldport was being recalled

By DANA TIMS/YachatsNews.com Edith and Kent Hitchings were in Florence last Friday when the longtime whale-watchers checked a Facebook page that monitors orca sightings on the Oregon coast. A family of orcas were spotted near Newport, someone reported, so they raced north. “We made the guess that they might turn up into Yaquina Bay,” Edith Hitching told YachatsNews this

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com and LYNNE TERRY/Oregon Capital Chronicle The number of Covid cases in Lincoln County is surging again but because of the area’s high vaccination rate, new treatments and a less virulent variety of the disease, hospitalizations have been minimal. Lincoln County Public Health said it had official reports of 381 Covid cases in May – equal to

YACHATS — You can’t study marine science at Yachats’ newest storefront, but you still might learn something at Oceanography 101. That’s because owner Bridgette Shipley has dotted her new retail space along U.S. Highway 101 with small signs offering tidbits of sea life information — like “Jellyfish … are not fish. They have no brain, no heart, and no

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com WALDPORT – After two years of battling Covid-19 restrictions and some troublesome behaviors, Cristal Arden wanted something to help bring Crestview Heights School students back together — a project that anyone who wanted to could help design and build. Drawing on her experience 16 years ago with a large mosaic tiled mural that now graces the front

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com WALDPORT — The call came at 11:43 a.m. Saturday – a woman near Range Drive in Waldport was struggling to breathe. Central Oregon Coast Fire & Rescue firefighter/paramedic Jo Bartling and firefighter/EMT John Townley got to her house in less than 4 minutes and asked for backup from the Yachats and Seal Rock fire departments. Shortly