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By CHERYL ROMANO/YachatsNews.com YACHATS — She just doesn’t look the part. White hair tops a tall frame, and she walks with a cane pending surgery this winter. She’s a deacon and an elder at Yachats Community Presbyterian Church, where she coordinates the food pantry. But for years, this Yachats resident travelled the globe in the high-speed, high-risk world of

Despite averaging 100 new, reported Covid-19 cases a day the past week, Lincoln County may have seen the peak of the omicron surge, county health director Florence Pourtal said this week. Lincoln County had 2,053 reported cases in January, Pourtal told county commissioners in her weekly briefing Wednesday. While that may only represent half of the actual cases, she

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com WALDPORT – The idea of turning the city’s former museum on Northeast Third and Grant streets into a performing arts center or other civic use may be dead. So, should the city turn it into temporary housing for new workers, interns or others who have jobs in Waldport but are struggling to find a place to

By OSU NEWS SERVICE and OREGON CAPITAL CHRONICLE The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded $25 million to eight groups for the testing of wave energy technologies at Oregon State University’s PacWave South facility off the central Oregon coast between Waldport and Newport. Construction began in June 2021 on the approximately $80 million facility, to be located about seven miles offshore.

By TIFFANY ECKERT/Oregon Public Broadcasting The Oregon Coast Trail stretches along the state’s entire 362-mile coastline from Washington to California – but there are disconnected sections of trail that pose safety concerns for hikers. Now, the public is being asked to weigh in on plans to reconnect the trail. The Oregon Parks and Recreation Department is creating a plan

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com The chiefs and two board members of fire districts in Seal Rock and Waldport plan to meet next week in what could be a series of discussions whether a joint operating agreement can be saved. At issue is a 2-year-old agreement allowing firefighters in the neighboring departments to work, train and live together and respond to

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com The two hospitals in Lincoln County are not yet full of Covid-19 patients, but are struggling with staff shortages and not being able to send seriously ill patients to full Willamette Valley hospitals or recovering patients to local nursing homes or rehabilitation centers. “We’re rapidly becoming our own island,” Dr. Lesley Ogden, chief executive officer of