Bayshore volunteers complete years-long project to create beach access for people with mobility issues

May 29, 2025

By CHERYL ROMANO/Lincoln Chronicle WALDPORT — It’s a beautiful day on the Oregon coast so let’s go to the beach! That’s an easy plan for many — but not if you’re in a wheelchair, using a walker or cane, or just don’t feel secure walking on soft, shifting sand. That’s changed, however, in the Bayshore community just north of

Lincoln County’s only therapy-based school closes this week after years of financial struggles

May 29, 2025

By SHAYLA ESCUDERO/Lincoln Chronicle TOLEDO – A 47-year-old therapy-based school and resource hub — the only one of its kind in Lincoln County — has ceased operations after a failed merger agreement and years of financial instability. Olalla Center, a day treatment program in Toledo, offered therapy-based education for children with disabilities and behaviors who need extra support before

Citing legal expenses and desire to move on, Waldport council votes to reinstate Lambert as mayor

May 27, 2025

Note: This story was updated at 4:05 p.m. Friday, May 30 with a formal statement from Waldport city manager Dann Cutter. By GARRET JAROS/Lincoln Chronicle WALDPORT – The Waldport city council voted unanimously Tuesday to return mayor Heide Lambert to office and dismiss charges that she violated the city charter in March. The decision is a reversal of

Oregon State Parks officials soon deciding fate of 150-year-old “Yaquina Muscle Tree” in Newport

May 27, 2025

By KRISTIAN FODEN-VENCIL/Oregon Public Broadcasting NEWPORT — Anyone driving into Yaquina Bay State Recreation Area will see a majestic Sitka spruce standing in the middle of the road, overlooking the ocean. It’s known as the Yaquina Muscle Tree, because its beefy branches stick out like a flexing bodybuilder. For generations, people have gotten married next to it, taken graduation

Caught in Trump and Europe’s tariff wars, USDA announces $16 million purchase of Oregon pink shrimp

May 26, 2025

By ALEJANDRO FIGUEROA/Oregon Public Broadcasting In a regular season, commercial fishing boats on the Oregon coast set out at the beginning of April to catch Pacific pink shrimp to then be canned or frozen at a local processing facility. This year, those plans got delayed. “They decided to wait and put it off two weeks at least,” said Nick

25-year plan for Yachats Commons/city center area takes shape, now heads to commission and council

May 26, 2025

By GARRET JAROS/Lincoln Chronicle YACHATS – Designing a vision of what a Yachats civic campus might look like 25 years into the future is not easy but after months of synthesizing community comments and ideas there’s a draft of a final plan. “It was challenging, I’ll be honest,” said principal designer Shelby Scharen before the start of a May

Big crowd anticipating fireworks at Waldport city council instead get calm meeting focused mostly on business

May 24, 2025

By GARRET JAROS/Lincoln Chronicle WALDPORT – Some who attended Waldport’s city council meeting Thursday said they “had come to watch the fireworks” and others “to see the show” after the regularly scheduled meeting was cancelled two weeks ago out of concern clashes between opposing groups might lead to mayhem. But there were no fireworks and there was no show.

Despite lots of vocal opposition, county commission chair says idea of limiting public comment still alive

May 22, 2025

By SHAYLA ESCUDERO/Lincoln Chronicle NEWPORT – A proposal to limit public comment at Lincoln County commission meetings is still alive despite a wave of opposition Wednesday – including from commissioner Casey Miller who was blocked from voicing his dissent. Another chaotic commission meeting this week is the latest in an onslaught of conflict – months of contention between commissioners

Yachats’ proposed 2025-26 budget rising 14 percent as multiple long-planned city projects get under way

May 22, 2025

By GARRET JAROS/Lincoln Chronicle YACHATS – If the city of Yachats’ proposed 2025-26 budget were a person they would be wearing a hard hat and boots and working from dawn to dusk on a laundry list of capital improvement projects. The nearly $8.86 million spending proposal reflects the city’s movement on a litany of long-term plans and is $1.1

Nurses union, 3 lawmakers urge Samaritan Health not to close maternity units in Lincoln City, Lebanon

May 22, 2025

By LYNNE TERRY/The Lund Report Dozens of residents and health care professionals held a last-minute rally called by the Oregon Nurses Association on Wednesday in Corvallis over the specter of Samaritan Health Services closing maternity centers at its hospitals in Lincoln City and Lebanon They gathered mid-day outside a Samaritan building in Corvallis an hour before board members were

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Bayshore volunteers complete years-long project to create beach access for people with mobility issues

Lincoln County’s only therapy-based school closes this week after years of financial struggles

Citing legal expenses and desire to move on, Waldport council votes to reinstate Lambert as mayor

Oregon State Parks officials soon deciding fate of 150-year-old “Yaquina Muscle Tree” in Newport

Caught in Trump and Europe’s tariff wars, USDA announces $16 million purchase of Oregon pink shrimp

25-year plan for Yachats Commons/city center area takes shape, now heads to commission and council

Big crowd anticipating fireworks at Waldport city council instead get calm meeting focused mostly on business

Despite lots of vocal opposition, county commission chair says idea of limiting public comment still alive

Yachats’ proposed 2025-26 budget rising 14 percent as multiple long-planned city projects get under way

Nurses union, 3 lawmakers urge Samaritan Health not to close maternity units in Lincoln City, Lebanon

Letters from readers

Commissioner clarifies stance on Veterans Service levy on Nov. 4 ballot

Lincoln County ballot measure is a commitment to our veterans

$25,000 grant will help View the Future’s community conversations

Obituaries

Joe Chapman of Tenmile

Ruth R. Mock of Yachats — “Fiddlin Ruth”

Marie Jones of Newport

Civic Calendar

Port of Alsea commission special meeting

City of Yachats Parks & Commons Commission

Workshop meeting of Seal Rock and East Lincoln County fire district boards

Yachats Big Band monthly concert

Yachats Rural Fire Protection District board

Yachats Planning Commission monthly workshop meeting

Yachats Public Works & Streets Commission

Lincoln County School District board of directors

Waldport City Council

Lincoln Soil and Water Conservation District monthly board meeting

Public & Legal Notices

LEGAL NOTICE: Seal Rock Fire District and East Lincoln County Fire District

NOTICE TO INTERESTED PERSONS

A regular meeting of the Board of Directors of Central Lincoln PUD