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To readers of YachatsNews: It’s been two years since the launch of YachatsNews.com and one year since the last update on how everything has been going on the site and behind the scenes. So in the interest of transparency and to keep anyone who might care abreast of what happened in 2020 and plans for 2021, here goes. A look

By CHERYL ROMANO/YachatsNews.com It’s tough enough to keep a retail shop going during a pandemic. But to open a new one? It’s all part of the plan for Todd and Karen Moyer, owners and operators of the new Beach Daisy Wine shop just north of Yachats in the Greenhouse Market Place. “People have been enjoying wine for thousands of

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com The Yachats Rural Fire Protection District board has tapped the brakes on a suggestion to ask voters in May to approve a new tax levy to hire more people and replace old equipment. The board held a special meeting Monday to discuss the idea of putting an operating levy on the May ballot, allowing it to

Kindergarten through third-grade classes will resume Monday in the Lincoln County School District, but it could be another three months before high school students return to buildings. The resumption of “hybrid” classes – two days in school and three days online – is the result of new, but constantly changing criteria handed down from the Oregon Department of Education

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com Lincoln County and its partners will vaccinate an estimated 600 people against COVID-19 during a mass clinic Friday at the county fairgrounds in Newport, and then pause further clinics for two weeks because its supply of vaccines has been cut off by the state. Vaccines to Lincoln County Public and Samaritan Health Systems and at least

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com The paving of the newly-named La de da Lane behind Yachats City Hall is tentatively moving ahead, after the City Council voted 3-1 this week to spend $4,000 to proceed with bids for it. Newly elected Councilor Greg Scott tried to halt the estimated $160,000 project Thursday, saying it was not needed, lacked enough public discussion,

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com Supporters of short-term rentals came out in force Wednesday night during a re-boot of Lincoln County’s long process considering tighter regulations on nearly 600 vacation rentals operating in unincorporated areas of the county. Vacation rental owners and representatives of management companies championed the economic impact they provide, that tightening of regulations would stifle their income or