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By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com The city of Yachats is trying to determine the future of its library and wants residents to help figure it out. So it is seeking your thoughts. The Yachats Library Commission is sponsoring community meetings at 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 24 at the pavilion behind the Commons. The meetings will be led by

By YVONNE SHAW/For YachatsNews.com Two men caught setting stolen crab traps in a marine on the Oregon coast await trial following a joint effort of citizen reporting and solid detective work. Bob Browning has fished Oregon waters all his life. Sarah Henkel, a researcher with the Oregon State University marine program in Newport had hired Browning and his boat,

Residents of the burned neighborhoods in Otis will be allowed back into the fire area from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office announced Friday. Property owners will need to show identification with their address. People without complete identification have to contact the county’s call center to make arrangements with the sheriff’s office for

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com In the thirst for news and on-the-ground word in the aftermath of the fires burning in north Lincoln County, perhaps no better clearinghouse for information has been a spur-of-the-moment Facebook page created by a high-tech guy who happened to be visiting his mother in Otis. “I just saw an opportunity with communication and coordination,” said Brian

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com Evacuation orders for the north end of Lincoln City were dropped Saturday as cooler weather helped firefighters keep the 2,400-acre Echo Mountain fire burning to the east from growing. People who had been forced from their homes along East Devils Lake Road and South Schooner Creek Road were told early Saturday they could

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com Dale Voris was sleeping at his parents’ home along Oregon Highway 18 in Otis when he heard the loud knock on the door at 4:30 a.m. Wednesday. “Get out now!” the Lincoln County Sheriff’s deputy yelled. Voris on Tuesday had already prepared his parents, Rick and Debbie Voris, to evacuate as two fires north of the

If you are registered to vote in Lincoln County, don’t listen to the noise coming from Washington, D.C. about voting by mail. There will be ample time to mark your ballot and return it, says Lincoln County Clerk Dana Jenkins. Mailing envelopes are pre-paid so it won’t cost you a cent. And, as in the past 20 years, there will

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com The cities of Yachats and Waldport have embarked on a two-year experiment to with work an Albany-based regional government to provide planning services for the two communities. The effort reflects the difficulty in attracting qualified planners or other governmental experts to rural Oregon that is compounded by small cities not needing a full-time employee to do the