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By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com Look for the big yellow tour bus this month in Yachats and Waldport. No, it won’t be a country-Western star on tour, or an over-the-hill big hair band belting out hits from the 70s. It will be a bus provided by the Federal Emergency Management Agency ordered to Oregon by President Joe Biden to help tamp

BY QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com After four months of no discussion, Lincoln County commissioners with little notice began moving ahead again Wednesday on tighter, new rules on vacation rentals in unincorporated areas of the county. If they hold to a proposed schedule, the commission’s final decision would come just six days before ballots are counted in a hotly-contested countywide vote on

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com Goodbye, Kurt Schrader. Hello, Peter DeFazio. Goodbye Boomer Wright. Hello Dave Gomberg. Well, in January 2023 most likely. That’s what the final redrawing this week of congressional and state legislative maps means for Lincoln County and the Yachats area. Because of its population growth, Oregon was one of six states to get an additional – its sixth

To readers of YachatsNews: My last update on the news site was eight months ago, so it is time to offer an update on the efforts to bring local news to south Lincoln County – and make a request for support. I started the news site as a community service project in January 2019 with little idea how it

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com Lincoln County is ready to offer booster shots of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine next Friday if a federal agency and a consortium of western states follow a recommendation it be given to people over 65 and those with long-term health issues. The shots would be offered at mass vaccination clinics initially in Newport, similar to what

By Oregon ArtsWatch NEWPORT — After a pause for COVID last year, the Oregon Coast Jazz Party is on again. This year, it comes under the direction of noted jazz musician Ken Peplowski, who’s been called “the greatest living jazz clarinetist.” Born and raised in Cleveland, Peplowski started playing professionally while still in elementary school and was teaching by

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com WALDPORT – The board of the Central Oregon Coast Fire & Rescue District will get a professional appraisal of the building it is leasing from the city of Waldport to help in its negotiations to buy it. The board, after two members were authorized to consult a Salem attorney, will also press the city to hold