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By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com The Yachats Rural Fire Protection District is a financial mess. So after years of financial missteps and inattention, it’s asking voters to help solve the problem by raising taxes on themselves. It is an expensive request – one that would add almost $450 a year onto the tax bill of someone owning property worth $300,000. Some

By OREGON ARTSWATCH Life threw a few challenges her way, but Niki Price finally got her Oregon Coast trek underway in September — and the first leg was every inch as amazing as she expected. “It was grand,” Price, executive director of the Lincoln City Cultural Center, said of the 21-mile stretch from the north trailhead at Ft. Stevens

A wind, lightning and rainstorm put the brakes on a COVID-19 vaccine and testing clinic Sunday in Yachats, but organizers say they’ll be back starting at 11 a.m. Monday and give shots until everyone has what they want. A big yellow bus provided by the Federal Emergency Management Agency along with 23 contracted staff members arrived Sunday morning in

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com Lincoln County voters will be inundated with advertising, post cards, phone calls, texts and emails the next two weeks as proponents and opponents of a ballot measure to phase out short-term rentals in some parts of the county gear up their campaigns. While voters throughout the county — including cities like Yachats, Waldport, Newport and Lincoln

By DANA TIMS/YachatsNews.com Lincoln County, apparently riding the wave of an influx of retirees, exceeded prior population forecasts and far surpassed slower-growing counties farther down the coast, according to 2020 Census numbers. The county, as a whole, grew by 9.5 percent over the past decade, a rate just behind the statewide average of 10.6 percent. Lincoln County’s growth rate

By CHERYL ROMANO/YachatsNews.com WALDPORT — What do cool cars, Halloween treats, holiday wreaths and scholarships have in common? That would be Waldport’s Beachcomber Days, which is expanding its calendar of community events to run throughout the year. Known for its traditional Father’s Day weekend celebration featuring a parade, music and car show, Beachcomber Days is a nonprofit that funds

WALDPORT – Dr. Stephanie Bosch, 32, a key member of Samaritan Health Service’s clinic in Waldport, died Wednesday night in the emergency room at the hospital in Newport. Bosch had practiced family medicine at the Waldport Clinic since August 2018. Samaritan closed the clinic Thursday and Friday so staff could recover and grieve, said Dr. Lesley Ogden, chief executive officer