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By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com YACHATS – An ambitious proposal to build a 350-foot-long boardwalk overlooking the Yachats River is reaching its first critical test with a key Yachats commission asking the city council to have engineers firm up the project’s design and cost. A preliminary estimate by a Newport engineering firm says the boardwalk along Ocean View Drive from Beach

By CHERYL ROMANO/YachatsNews.com WALDPORT — It could have been an episode of “House Hunters.” The hunters — the nonprofit Green Bike Co-op of Waldport — needed to leave their dark, chilly 600-square-foot home. The house? A former museum with twice the space, loads of light and ample parking for anyone who would like to rent, sell, buy or have

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com A candidate for Lincoln County commission touting his education and business experience failed to register his campaign with the Oregon Elections Division for five months until Thursday and has not reported contributions or spending over $3,500 as required. Carter McEntee of Newport filed last October for Position 1 on the board of commissioners. But until Thursday, a

YACHATS – A Yachats woman indicted on three felony charges for violating Oregon election law in 2019 when she was elected to the Yachats Rural Fire Protection District board is scheduled to enter a plea and be sentenced May 12 in Lincoln County Circuit Court. A’lyce A. Ruberg, 53, of Yachats was indicted by a Lincoln County grand jury in

By JORDAN ESSOE/YachatsNews.com WALDPORT – It’s been a long time coming, but south Lincoln County will be getting a new public healthcare clinic. Lincoln County has purchased a former medical building in downtown Waldport to provide public health patients in the area with a more accessible alternative to driving to Newport or Lincoln City, where the only other county

By ELIZABETH MILLER/Oregon Public Broadcasting NEWPORT – Yaquina View Elementary principal Kristin Tocano Becker never thought she’d see the day her school would get a new gym. “It’s not a thing I thought I would see completed in the time that I anticipate working,” Tocano Becker said of her school where current gym doubles as a cafeteria. “Because we

By JAYATI RAMAKRISHMAN/The Oregonian/OregonLive ASTORIA — The Clatsop County Board of Commissioners will consider two competing proposals this week, one of which would impose strict limits on where to allow vacation rental homes in unincorporated areas. Commissioners will decide whether to restrict short-term rental licenses in residential zones to the unincorporated community of Arch Cape, at the south end of

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com NEWPORT – A nasty dispute between the Lincoln County district attorney and county commissioners and its staff over hiring a DA’s detective may resolve itself in two weeks, but not without unprecedented public allegations of lying and abuse of power, retaliation, threats of prosecution and lawsuits, and at least one outside investigation. The fight that moved