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By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com A quickly increasing number of COVID-19 cases in Lincoln County prompted county officials Thursday to ask that people age 5 and older resume wearing masks in public, indoor places. Like other counties around Oregon, county commissioners did not take the next step and make masks mandatory — as they could do. Although its overall COVID-19 numbers

By CHERYL ROMANO/YachatsNews.com There’s a big new library in town for those who like to read on their desktop computers, tablets and even cellphones. Digital content has come to the Yachats Library. Thanks to a grant secured by The Friends of Yachats Library, “We’ve entered the 21st century in the digital age,” said David Rivinus, chair of the city’s

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com    Frustrated by delays from Lincoln County commissioners, a group opposed to vacation rentals in residential neighborhoods has qualified its initiative petition phasing them out for the Nov. 2 ballot. The “15neighborhoods” group has been collecting signatures for more than a year to put its initiative to a countywide vote. But it held off filing to give

There wasn’t much rain in July, as usual – but it wasn’t dry enough to result in voluntary water restrictions in Yachats. Yet. Elsewhere in Lincoln County, the city of Toledo and the Seal Rock Water District are now asking customers to voluntarily limit their water use because of near-record low levels of the Siletz River, where both get their

By DANA TIMS/YachatsNews.com The families of thousands of Lincoln County students are beginning to receive payments compensating them for school-provided meals they missed over the past year to due pandemic-caused school closures. Three separate payments will cover school lunches students would normally have received last October, November and December. “We should see just over 5,000 individual students receive benefits,”

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com Lincoln County health officials issued a warning Friday evening about a surge in COVID-19 cases in the county, saying there were nearly as many new cases this week as in the entire month of May. Lincoln County Public Health said there were 46 new COVID-19 cases from Monday through Friday and 101 cases for the month