State park reopens where PacWave conduit work was under way; now OSU-led energy project looks for cable manufacturer

May 17, 2022

By DANA TIMS/YachatsNews.com First-time visitors to Driftwood Beach State Recreation Site north of Waldport will see what appears to be the perfect spot to enjoy an afternoon picnic — a freshly paved parking lot, new curbs and sidewalks, a viewing platform, all leading to an idyllic stretch of sandy beach. What won’t be apparent, however, is that just below

Central Coast Fire budget committee — with 3 board members absent — OKs $1.35 million spending plan for 2022-23

May 16, 2022

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com WALDPORT – The budget committee for the Central Oregon Coast Fire & Rescue District is recommending the board approve a proposed $1.35 million general fund spending plan for 2022-23. The budget committee is made up of the five COCF&R board members and five other district residents. Seven of the 10-member committee met for 80 minutes Thursday

Waldport community, sheriff’s animal control officers unite to locate and capture “Meru,” the runaway German shepherd

May 12, 2022

By JORDAN ESSOE/YachatsNews.com WALDPORT – After 66 days, Meru is home. The three-year-old white German shepherd disappeared in March after being attacked and chased by a pit bull at Governor Patterson state recreation site. The dog then wandered the chilly coastal landscape by herself for more than two months as her out-of-town owner and a large team of locals

Yachats woman who lied in voters pamphlet to win 2019 election pleads guilty to felony, is fined and put on probation

May 12, 2022

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com A Yachats woman who lied about her background in the Lincoln County voter’s pamphlet three years ago to help get elected to a local fire board, pleaded guilty Thursday to breaking Oregon election law, was sentenced to 18 months probation and fined $2,500. In exchange for a guilty plea from A’lyce A. Ruberg, the Oregon Department

Host of agencies, biologists getting ready for another season of research into endangered silverspot butterfly south of Yachats

May 12, 2022

By DANA TIMS/YachatsNews.com For the second year in a row, an open-air laboratory is being nurtured south of Yachats as part of a decades-long effort to save the Oregon silverspot butterfly from extinction. Building on research conducted last year in fields at Rock Creek and on Brays Point, a mower will roar into action in early June to recreate

Yachats budget committee gets first look at 2022-23 spending plan that includes re-staffing city hall, adding public works employees

May 12, 2022

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com YACHATS – Yachats’s new city manager has proposed a $1.74 million general fund budget for 2022-23 that under a staffing reorganization plan pays for adding five employees at city hall and two more in public works. The proposed budget got its first examination Monday during a four-hour meeting of the city’s budget committee, made up of

Groups gearing up for dedication of Amanda Trail suspension bridge and special play honoring De-Cuys this weekend

May 12, 2022

By CHERYL ROMANO/YachatsNews.com YACHATS — Six years in the making, the new Amanda Trail suspension bridge receives its formal — and respectful — welcome Saturday and Sunday. Several activities are planned that weekend to honor the bridge and trail’s’ namesake, Amanda De-Cuys, a member of the Coos tribe. Blind, she was forced by U.S. government troops in 1864 to

Have you seen Ronnie? Family and community search for woman who lived in her car the past year around Yachats and Waldport

May 9, 2022

By CHERYL ROMANO/YachatsNews.com YACHATS – A woman who spent the last year living in her car in and around Yachats abandoned the vehicle nearly three weeks ago, worrying family and friends concerned for her well being. Ronnie Deleski, 42, was a common sight around Yachats and Waldport living in her small, blue Toyota Scion stuffed with her personal belongings.

Yachats council gives unanimous approval to seek engineering design and costs for Ocean View Drive boardwalk

May 9, 2022

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com YACHATS – The Yachats City Council has given the go-ahead for the next step on what could be a $950,000 project to build a 350-foot boardwalk along Ocean View Drive overlooking the Yachats River. The council voted unanimously and enthusiastically Thursday to seek and negotiate detailed engineering designs for the boardwalk. Those designs will be used

Waldport High School wins third straight forestry championship, teacher named natural resources educator of the year

May 9, 2022

WALDPORT – It’s a three-peat for the forestry program at Waldport High School, which also had its instructor honored as natural resources educator of the year for Oregon. Some 38 students in the high school’s forestry program competed in the Oregon Future Natural Resource Leaders state competition April 29-30 at the Hopkins demonstration forest in Oregon City. Of those,

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State park reopens where PacWave conduit work was under way; now OSU-led energy project looks for cable manufacturer

Central Coast Fire budget committee — with 3 board members absent — OKs $1.35 million spending plan for 2022-23

Waldport community, sheriff’s animal control officers unite to locate and capture “Meru,” the runaway German shepherd

Yachats woman who lied in voters pamphlet to win 2019 election pleads guilty to felony, is fined and put on probation

Host of agencies, biologists getting ready for another season of research into endangered silverspot butterfly south of Yachats

Yachats budget committee gets first look at 2022-23 spending plan that includes re-staffing city hall, adding public works employees

Groups gearing up for dedication of Amanda Trail suspension bridge and special play honoring De-Cuys this weekend

Have you seen Ronnie? Family and community search for woman who lived in her car the past year around Yachats and Waldport

Yachats council gives unanimous approval to seek engineering design and costs for Ocean View Drive boardwalk

Waldport High School wins third straight forestry championship, teacher named natural resources educator of the year

Letters from readers

Commissioner clarifies stance on Veterans Service levy on Nov. 4 ballot

Lincoln County ballot measure is a commitment to our veterans

$25,000 grant will help View the Future’s community conversations

Obituaries

Jon M. French of Waldport

Joe Chapman of Tenmile

Ruth R. Mock of Yachats — “Fiddlin Ruth”

Civic Calendar

Yachats Big Band monthly concert

Yachats Rural Fire Protection District board

Yachats Planning Commission monthly workshop meeting

Yachats Public Works & Streets Commission

Lincoln County School District board of directors

Waldport City Council

Lincoln Soil and Water Conservation District monthly board meeting

Yachats “open mic” night

Newport City Council work session and regular meeting

Southwest Lincoln Water People’s Utility District board

Public & Legal Notices

NOTICE TO INTERESTED PERSONS

LEGAL NOTICE: Seal Rock Fire District and East Lincoln County Fire District

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