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By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com The death toll for residents of a Newport nursing home who tested positive for COVID-19 reached five Monday, as county health officials warned of increasing spread in the city and a looming shortage of reliable tests. Lincoln County Public Health and Avamere Rehabilitation of Newport said a 95-year-old woman died there Monday. That followed the deaths of

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com Kama Almasi of Yachats has lived in Japan, been a paralegal in Seattle, taught college in Wisconsin – and this spring taught math to middle school students in Toledo. But starting in August, Almasi will spend 11 months in Washington, D.C. as one of 15 Albert Einstein Distinguished Education Fellows. The 30-year-old program is sponsored by five

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com and STEVE LUNDEBERG/OSU News Service Lincoln County reported its sixth COVID-19 related death Friday, a 91-year-old man who died at his residence. That follows the county’s highest number of COVID-19 cases in more than a week and its fifth death Thursday. On Thursday, the Oregon Health Authority reported a record 389 new cases, then 275 cases Friday

By CHERYL ROMANO/YachatsNews.com When the coronavirus pandemic forced cancellation of the Yachats Ladies Club’s traditional fundraising activities this year, members took the opportunity to provide a different service to the community. Traditionally, the club’s goal of promoting the welfare of the community has been rooted in activities that sound gloriously old-timey — pie socials and hand-crafted gifts bazaars. But now

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com The Yachats City Council has forgiven $11,000 of a $19,000 water and sewer bill for the owners of Fisterra Gardens Townhomes because of a massive water leak from a waterline break in late February. The council granted Layne Morrill, general partner in the low-income apartment complex, relief from a $11,000 sewer bill because the water leak did

By STEVE LUNDEBERG/OSU News Service The groundbreaking Oregon State University sampling project that helps determine community prevalence of coronavirus will return to Newport for two more days of sampling this weekend, July 11-12. Results from door-to-door sampling June 20-21 showed that 3.4 percent of Newport residents – 34 of every 1,000 — have the coronavirus. That is a rate 17

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com Like the last four months of 2020, July 4 in Yachats was a lot different. Gone were the big crowds lining the streets for the city’s whimsical la de da Parade. No fire department barbecue or duck race on the Yachats River. No fireworks from Yachats State Park. Even the town’s only brewery took a different approach

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com A second resident of a Newport rehabilitation center has died of COVID-19, one day before Gov. Kate Brown put Lincoln County and seven other rural counties on notice that there could be a retightening of restrictions unless outbreaks are brought under control. A 96-year-old woman died Thursday at Avamere Rehabilitation in Newport, Lincoln County officials announced Saturday.

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com The city of Yachats has chosen a new operator for its city-funded visitors center, approving a two-year contract with a former council member who specializes in online marketing and business development. In awarding the contact to James Kerti, the City Council moved away from having the Yachats Chamber of Commerce run the center and marketing programs, which

By CHERYL ROMANO/YachatsNews.com After 14 weeks of supplying cash to workers displaced by the coronavirus pandemic, the well has run dry.  Yachats Community Presbyterian Church has run out of money in its displaced workers fund and ended the program this week. And, there is enough money for just one more round of the church’s small business relief program, with a