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By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com The Yachats City Council kicked off the new year Thursday with a nearly four-hour meeting, swearing in three new members, deciding on a timetable for appointing a fifth member, and promptly wading in to the contentious and long-running issue of city staffing. Leslie Vaaler took the oath of office as mayor, then swore in Ann Stott

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com It’s a good thing that Adam Altson is a morning person. Every day at 7 a.m. the Yachats resident goes out to measure rainfall for the last 24 hours, checking a long plastic tube inside a gauge at his house on Ocean View Drive. He enters the number in his own spreadsheet and then logs onto

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com Yachats City Manager Shannon Beaucaire is one of four finalists to become the city manager in Carlton, a small city in the wine region of Yamhill County. Beaucaire has been Yachats’ city manager since October 2017. The Yachats City Council is getting a new mayor and two newly elected members this week, all of whom have been

From YachatsNews.com and Oregon Public Broadcasting Lincoln County Public Health and a Newport-based ambulance service have received their first shipments of the new Moderna COVID-19 vaccine and started administering doses to emergency medical personnel. Until last week, Oregon’s share of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines were shipped directly to hospitals, tribes, and to a handful of pharmacies which are

Lincoln County residents can dine in restaurants and bars again – if they feel comfortable – starting Friday. Unfortunately, they won’t be able to do that New Year’s Eve. Lincoln County was one of five counties the state announced Tuesday will drop from restrictions under its “extreme risk” category down to the “high risk” category effective Friday, New Year’s

By CHERYL ROMANO/YachatsNews.com Like so many Yachats traditions, this season’s New Year’s Day Peace Hike won’t go on as planned — but it will take shape person by person and online. “Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the absolute need to follow all safety protocols, there will be no traditional large-group hike as we have known it,” said Joanne

By Quinton Smith/YachatsNews.com Nurses at Samaritan Pacific Communities Hospital in Newport began administering the first doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine in Lincoln County on Monday, giving shots to front-line employees who eagerly but patiently lined a second-floor hallway as they waited to enter a conference room to get the injections. By the end of the week, the hospital