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By JORDAN ESSOE/YachatsNews.com You can take off your mask Saturday, if you want. But frontline and essential workers, who have been required to wear masks unrelentingly for two years, are not unanimous in their decisions to put them away. A two-year-old state mandate that people wear face masks in indoor public places ends at midnight Friday, putting the choice

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com WALDPORT – A once acrimonious back-and-forth between the city of Waldport and Central Oregon Coast Fire & Rescue district over the future of the main fire station downtown may be soon settled amicably. The City Council on Thursday approved offering the fire district a 5-year lease on the station in exchange for the district paying $40,000

There will be at least two new faces in Lincoln County government next year, after filings for the May 17 primary election closed Tuesday evening. Five men are seeking Position 1 on the board of commissioners, replacing Doug Hunt who is retiring after 10 years. Also, three men filed to run against commissioner Kaety Jacobson, who is first elected

Lincoln County infrastructure projects and a local program to set up a response system to help the homeless received a total of $11.35 million in funding from the Oregon Legislature, which completed its short, 35-day 2022 session Friday. The money came from legislative approval of $1.4 billion in new spending on housing, childcare programs, rural infrastructure and summer school

By MYERS REECE/Underscore.news  On a drizzly January morning, Esther Stutzman’s dining room table is covered with sticky notes, worksheets, notepads and several bulky Kalapuya dictionaries. Seated next to Stutzman are her two daughters and granddaughter, all Kalapuyan descendants and enrolled members of the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians. Their jovial banter belies the gravity of their mission: to revive

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com SEAL ROCK – The Seal Rock Fire District board wants to offer the part-time consultant who has been helping the district since October a two-year contract to be its fire chief. If Will Ewing accepts, his first job might may be trying to replace two of the district’s four firefighters who submitted resignations last week to

By CHERYL ROMANO/YachatsNews.com One winter day at Yachats’ social hub (the Post Office), a well-known local realtor ran into an acquaintance. “I’ve retired from real estate,” she announced “and gone back to basketball.” Huh? After all, D.J. (Debra Jane) Novgrod was a fixture in area real estate for years, well-connected in the Presbyterian church, and in civic affairs. But