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By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com The Oregon Health Authority on Thursday announced that a 72-year-old Lincoln County woman tested positive for COVID-19 last week, one day after her death. The woman had underlying health issues and died Nov. 16 at her residence, the OHA said. Tests revealed the virus the next day. It was the second COVID-19 related death from last

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com The Yachats City Council has sent a proposed lighting ordinance back to the Planning Commission for more work after pushback from two large motels upset about a suggested ban on marine lighting. If such lights were banned, Adobe Motel general manager Anthony Muirhead told the council last week that for safety reasons the owners would build a

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com It was supposed to be good news Wednesday. Instead it was overshadowed by another tense squabble between current and soon-to-be members of the Yachats City Council. City Manager Shannon Beaucaire on Wednesday released a long-awaited financial update showing surprisingly strong revenue from lodging and food and beverage taxes for July, August and September, the first quarter of

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com Spurred by an anonymous donation of $50,000, the Yachats Community Presbyterian Church announced Thursday it was resuming direct aid to laid-off workers and businesses hurt by new coronavirus restrictions. With other new but smaller donations, Pastor Bob Barrett said the church had $60,000 to distribute – and asked for more donations to help people and businesses

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com The popularity of four mass COVID-19 testing events last week in Lincoln County has the county’s public health director looking for ways to bring more on-demand testing to the area. Some 1,140 people were tested during four, six-hour drive-through events in Waldport (238), Newport (352), Lincoln City (351) and Toledo (169). And long lines of cars seemed

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com Lincoln County commissioners generally support Gov. Kate Brown’s two-week “freeze” that puts new, strict limits on many businesses across Oregon beginning Wednesday – but they still have questions as to why counties with a low number of COVID-19 cases are being lumped together with high-case counties. Even with a four-day mass testing event last week, the

The Lincoln County School District announced Monday that it would “freeze” for two months its plans to gradually move more students back into classrooms because of Gov. Kate Brown’s new coronavirus restrictions taking effect Wednesday. Although schools are exempted from Brown’s executive order that shuts down many businesses and limits social activities for two weeks, Superintendent Karen Gray said

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com The Oregon State Police wildlife troopers hadn’t finished setting up “Scruffy” their decoy deer when a hunter prowling a mountain road in Lincoln County spotted it. Not quite ready, “we chased him out of there,” said Trooper Andrew Butler. That was just after sunset Friday, Nov. 6. Less than an hour later two men used their