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By CRISTIN SEVERANCE/KGW-TV Fred Creasy was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer at the end of June. Doctors gave the 81-year-old just 30 days to live. He died at the end of July while in hospice care at Avamere Rehabilitation in Newport. “They told my daughter you better come down here because it’s going to be today. And within

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com Under pressure from some residents to shrink the size of a street project, the Yachats City Council decided Wednesday to look at alternatives before deciding how or whether to go ahead with it. The council agreed to hold an online, public work session at 9:30 a.m. Aug. 19 to go over possible alternatives to a proposed

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com The operators of a bus system between Yachats and Florence have adjusted its schedule so that riders can now get all the way to Eugene in less than 4 hours instead of 12 hours. Schedule changes for the Florence-Yachats Connector and the Eugene-Florence Connector took effect Monday. The Lane Council of Governments took over the Florence-Yachats

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com A coalition of Lincoln County neighborhoods failed to collect enough signatures by Wednesday night to get an initiative on the November ballot that proposes phasing out vacation rentals in unincorporated areas. Now, the newly formed group called “15Neighborhoods” will aim their measure for May 2021. Monica Kirk, leader of the petition drive, said the group simply didn’t

By ANGELA NEBEL/For YachatsNews.com Lauren Seager of Lincoln City, a recent graduate of Oregon State University, has been on the phone a lot lately. But she’s not catching up with friends, separated since the coronavirus pandemic began. Instead, she’s part of a 10-member team helping find answers to basic coronavirus issues in the Lincoln County call center. The call

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com WALDPORT – After serving 13,000 meals in 4½ months, the non-stop food program by the Waldport Moose Lodge for people in need came to a quiet end Wednesday. Three volunteers stationed themselves by the front door to alert kitchen supervisor Shannon Elliott to dish up a hot serving of chicken with stuffing. But after volunteer delivery

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com The recreational season for fall Chinook on the central Oregon coast opens Saturday, but fishermen should not expect to see much improvement in catches over the past few years from the Siletz River south to the Siuslaw. A dramatic cutback of catch limits for wild fall Chinook that started in 2019 will continue this fall. And, for

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com Oregon Gov. Kate Brown on Thursday took Lincoln County off a state “watch list” for uncontrolled spread of the coronavirus, saying the county had recovered from a massive outbreak at a seafood processing plant and now meets standards for knowing where and how people are contracting COVID-19. The governor took Lincoln and Union counties off the

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com A coalition of neighborhood groups will begin collecting signatures Tuesday to place an initiative petition on the November ballot to phase out vacation rentals in unincorporated Lincoln County. No one challenged the petition’s constitutionality by a 5 p.m. Monday deadline. That sets up a 5- to 8-day race for the petitioners to collect 1,454 valid signatures