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By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com Lincoln County staff has unveiled proposals for tighter regulations on vacation rentals in unincorporated areas, suggesting much lower occupancy limits, setting up a hearings process for complaints, and floating an idea to limit rentals by geographic area that could replace a countywide cap. County commissioners got a first look at the proposals Monday from counsel Wayne

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com After racing ahead to get a majority of Lincoln County residents vaccinated, the state Wednesday gave the county’s health care providers permission to immediately begin offering COVID-19 vaccines to thousands of front-line workers, five days earlier than scheduled. Lincoln County Public Health sought permission to jump ahead on the schedule Tuesday after hundreds of appointments remained

By CHERYL ROMANO/YachatsNews.com For the fifth consecutive summer, Yachats will greet the season with dozens of unique art banners festooning the downtown light poles along U.S. Highway 101. And for the fifth consecutive year, Michael Guerriero is coordinating the Yachats Banner Project under the sponsorship of Polly Plumb Productions. Beginning in mid-June, 36 canvas banners will flutter in the

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com Lincoln County staff expects to complete detailed recommendations on regulations governing short-term rentals and present them to commissioners at its Monday meeting. After outlining the proposals to commissioners, County Counsel Wayne Belmont is tentatively proposing another public workshop on the regulations for April 7. Without revealing specifics or a direction, Belmont told commissioners two weeks ago

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com After two months of mass clinics in Newport and Lincoln City, the COVID-19 vaccine came to Waldport on Thursday. Some 215 south Lincoln County residents got their first dose of the Moderna vaccine at the first of planned weekly clinic, shuttled through in groups of 6-7 every 10 minutes at the Waldport Community Center. “It was

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com and GARY WARNER/Oregon Capital Bureau A small increase in the number of COVID-19 cases in Lincoln County will mean slightly tighter restrictions on some businesses and social gatherings starting Friday. Because of the increase, the Oregon Health Authority is moving the county from the “low risk” category – where it has been for a month –

By BRIAN BULL/ Underscore.news While the United States as a whole is just finding its stride administering the COVID-19 vaccine to its citizens, many Native American tribes – including the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians – are on a mean streak. The Siletz tribe, based in Lincoln County, has vaccinated roughly one-quarter of the 5,547 enrolled members, and about one-third

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com Lincoln County will begin offering COVID-19 vaccines beginning Monday to many adults with underlying health conditions and seafood processing workers as part of an accelerated schedule authorized Friday by the state. The changes come a week early for the county after Gov. Kate Brown said counties which had vaccinated a majority of residents age 65 and