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By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office has started a six-month experiment for scheduling patrol deputies because it has been too short-staffed to cover some shifts or duties. Although it has just hired three more deputies and has others in state-required training, the department is putting just half of the 18 patrol deputies it is authorized on the

By BREEANA LAUGHLIN/YachatsNews.com Although it cancelled a scaled down in-person event again this year, organizers of 45th annual Newport’s Seafood and Wine Festival are trying to keep the tradition alive by offering smaller alternatives this week to the annual celebration. The three-part celebration includes both in-person and virtual options. Anyone can take part in any or all of the

By QUINTON SMITH and JORDAN ESSOE/YachatsNews.com WALDPORT – Sensing that a personnel-sharing agreement with Seal Rock is going to end soon, the Central Oregon Coast Fire & Rescue Board voted unanimously Thursday night to hire two more firefighters to ensure that engines are fully staffed when responding to calls. For the last two years the districts have shared personnel

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com YACHATS – Wednesday’s Yachats City Council meeting was probably not the way councilors wanted to show new city manager Heide Lambert how they operate. Just three days into her job, Lambert was thrust into the middle of a procedural mess and yet another long-running disagreement over proposed repairs to the city-owned Little Log Church Museum. Just

By DANA TIMS/YachatsNews.com A wildfire that all but destroyed the community of Otis in September 2020 was caused by negligence when PacifiCorp failed to shut down its power lines in the area, according to a lawsuit filed against the utility in Lincoln County Circuit Court. The suit, filed on behalf of State Farm Fire and Casualty Company, seeks more

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com WALDPORT – It didn’t take long Thursday for a 91-year-old blighted building in downtown Waldport to bite the dust. A large track hoe and debris trucks from Road & Driveway of Newport took just the morning to demolish and haul away most of the structure that had been everything from a dance hall and roller skating

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com The legal fight over Lincoln County’s new restrictions on vacation rentals will likely take place in local court, not before the Oregon Land Use Board of Appeals. The state agency, which reviews land-use decisions, ruled Feb. 10 that it does not have jurisdiction over a county ordinance that more tightly regulates and limits the number of

By ZACH URNESS/Salem Statesman Journal  It was another record-smashing year for the number of people who hiked, camped and explored Oregon’s outdoors, but whether that’s a good or bad thing depends on who you ask. Oregon’s state park system set records for recreation visits and camping nights in 2021 while federal land managers also saw a continued record pace

WALDPORT – It looks like the popular Green Bike Co-op could have a new home and the former Waldport Heritage Museum a new occupant. The cooperative, which has operated for more than 15 years in a portion of a former garage along U.S. Highway 101 in downtown Waldport, has asked to move to the city’s former museum building at