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The number of COVID-19 cases in Lincoln County has dropped so dramatically the past month that it will be one of three Oregon counties Friday that will relax heavy restrictions on social and business activity to much looser state controls. Lincoln and nine other of Oregon’s 36 counties will be classified effective Friday as “low risk” for spreading the

Five mass COVID-19 vaccination clinics scheduled this week in Lincoln County will be held after health organizations Monday received a shipment of the Moderna vaccine delayed in the Midwest because of storms there. Winter storms last week delayed a scheduled shipment of 1,200 doses to Lincoln County from the FedEx shipping hub in Memphis, Tenn., forcing public health officials to

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com A four-mile section of U.S. Highway 101 between Yachats and Florence was reopened with flaggers mid-morning Friday as crews prepare to haul a large piece of equipment that fell onto ocean’s edge early Saturday. But the highway at Bray’s Point will close again at 7 a.m. Saturday when two massive wreckers drag a 28-ton drilling machine

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews The director of the Waldport Chamber of Commerce is leaving that position at the end of the month to work for a new marine economy program based at the Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport. Laura Furgurson has been splitting time between the Waldport and Depoe Bay chambers for the past year under a three-year economic

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com A coalition of neighborhood groups which wants to ban short-term rentals in parts Lincoln County said Tuesday it will hold off filing petition signatures to put the issue on the May ballot so the county can continue working to revise its regulations. Instead, the 15neighborhoods group said it will hold back signatures to possibly place its

The Lincoln County School District has announced it would begin four high school sports – volleyball, cross country, soccer and non-contact football – on Monday, Feb. 22. The re-start of team sports – prohibited since schools closed last spring – follows new rules from Gov. Kate Brown and the Oregon Health Authority, allowing high school and small college sports

The Oregon Department of Transportation has closed a four-mile section of U.S. Highway 101 between Yachats and Florence from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. for up to a week beginning Wednesday morning so that a contractor can make emergency repairs to a section of the cliffside road that has given away. On Monday the agency said the road would