Despite the bans, July 4th fireworks at the coast overrun police agencies, who say they’ll focus on critical calls

July 1, 2025

By GARRET JAROS/Lincoln Chronicle Just to be clear — all fireworks but smoke bombs and sparklers are banned across all of Lincoln County with the exception of Siletz and Toledo — where fireworks legally sold in Oregon will be allowed. Again, except for those exceptions — whether on beaches, in campgrounds, state parks, forests, public lands, backyard barbeques, private

The long Independence Day weekend for local residents and thousands of visitors begins Thursday in Waldport and ends Sunday in Yachats

July 1, 2025

By SHAYLA ESCUDERO and CHERYL ROMANO/Lincoln Chronicle The motels and vacation rentals are booked. The campgrounds are full. Hamburgers and hotdogs are ready for the grill. The weather forecast is good. Everything is as ready as possible for the thousands of visitors expected to swarm the central Oregon coast for the long July 4th holiday. Many of those visitors

Central Lincoln PUD will break ground this fall on new $26.5 million Newport headquarters building

June 30, 2025

By QUINTON SMITH/Lincoln Chronicle NEWPORT – Central Lincoln People’s Utility District has signed contracts to design and construct a new $26.5 million headquarters building adjacent to its current office along U.S. Highway 101. Recent decisions by the utility’s board to award architect, engineering and construction manager/general contractor contracts ends a nearly nine-year process to replace its 44-year-old headquarters. The

Too dry on the coast? Lack of rain means Lincoln County is first in Oregon to seek drought declaration

June 26, 2025

By GARRET JAROS/Lincoln Chronicle Rocks in the Siletz River — usually submerged until sometime in August — are already breaking the surface. The nearly 70-mile-long river supplies water to municipalities as well as farmers and set an unwanted record last week – the lowest level ever recorded for that date. The Siletz was flowing at just 22 percent of

See all those brown spruce needles on the ground? You can blame the work of aphids months ago

June 26, 2025

By DANA TIMS/Lincoln Chronicle YACHATS — Joanne Kittel could only stand and watch recently as Sitka spruce needles rained down onto the driveway of her forested property on the edge of Cape Perpetua just south of Yachats. “I knew that aphids were causing the problem because I’ve had them before,” Kittel told Lincoln Chronicle. “But nothing like this. It’s

Yachats-based affordable housing developer begins work on apartments, childcare center in Florence

June 26, 2025

By QUINTON SMITH/Lincoln Chronicle A Yachats-based nonprofit developer of affordable housing has broken ground on its second project in Florence that will include a $4.1 million childcare center for the community. The apartment project is fourth in Yachats and Florence for Our Coastal Village, started by Layne Morrill in 2009, and its largest so far. Elm Park Apartments, which

Former Taft High School employee sentenced to 18 months in prison for raping 15-year-old student she groomed

June 25, 2025

By SHAYLA ESCUDERO/Lincoln Chronicle NEWPORT – A former Taft High School employee will spend 18 months in prison for raping a 15-year-old male student. A handful of Angela R. Schafer’s supporters watched Tuesday as she pled guilty in Lincoln County circuit court to third-degree rape and furnishing alcohol to a minor. Schafer’s plea came after mounting evidence from forensic

Lincoln County fires district attorney’s husband from job in her office; $3.3 million lawsuit filed in May

June 24, 2025

Editor’s note: this story was updated Thursday, June 26, to include details of a new lawsuit filed against the county. By SHAYLA ESCUDERO/Lincoln Chronicle The Lincoln County district attorney’s husband who has been at the center of a months-long personnel dispute with county officials was dismissed from his job last week as a legal assistant in the district attorney’s

150-year-old Sitka spruce in Yaquina Bay State Park keeps its “muscle” but has rotten limbs removed Monday

June 23, 2025

By SHAYLA ESCUDERO/Lincoln Chronicle NEWPORT – With arms that once flexed and reached to the sky, the limbs of the beloved Sitka spruce “muscle tree” at the entrance of Yaquina Bay State Park, now stop short. After a five-hour takedown Monday, the Sitka spruce where many have made memories – from commemorating graduations to taking wedding photos – now

Former partner in Newport treatment center files complaint against owners alleging retaliation, discrimination

June 23, 2025

By SHAYLA ESCUDERO/Lincoln Chronicle A partner in a prominent Newport-based addiction treatment center is leveling accusations of disability discrimination and retaliation and seeking $879,000 from the other three founders of the company. Phoenix Wellness Center opened in 2020 when four members of the Confederated Tribes of the Siletz Indians – Ashleigh Ramirez, Wylie Stokes, Zebuli Payne and Danielle Payne

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Despite the bans, July 4th fireworks at the coast overrun police agencies, who say they’ll focus on critical calls

The long Independence Day weekend for local residents and thousands of visitors begins Thursday in Waldport and ends Sunday in Yachats

Central Lincoln PUD will break ground this fall on new $26.5 million Newport headquarters building

Too dry on the coast? Lack of rain means Lincoln County is first in Oregon to seek drought declaration

See all those brown spruce needles on the ground? You can blame the work of aphids months ago

Yachats-based affordable housing developer begins work on apartments, childcare center in Florence

Former Taft High School employee sentenced to 18 months in prison for raping 15-year-old student she groomed

Lincoln County fires district attorney’s husband from job in her office; $3.3 million lawsuit filed in May

150-year-old Sitka spruce in Yaquina Bay State Park keeps its “muscle” but has rotten limbs removed Monday

Former partner in Newport treatment center files complaint against owners alleging retaliation, discrimination

Letters from readers

Lincoln County ballot measure is a commitment to our veterans

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

Look at Medicare Advantage plans carefully before making a decision

Obituaries

Joe Chapman of Tenmile

Ruth R. Mock of Yachats — “Fiddlin Ruth”

Marie Jones of Newport

Civic Calendar

Lincoln County School District board special meeting

Port of Newport Commission monthly meeting

Port of Alsea commission special meeting

City of Yachats Parks & Commons Commission

Workshop meeting of Seal Rock and East Lincoln County fire district boards

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

Public & Legal Notices

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

NOTICE TO INTERESTED PERSONS

A regular meeting of the Board of Directors of Central Lincoln PUD