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By GARY A. WARNER/Oregon Capital Bureau and QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com Oregon’s COVID-19 infection rate is rising so fast that unless checked, businesses may have to close again and reopening schools this fall could be jeopardized, top state officials said Wednesday. “Today, Oregon, you have a choice,” Gov. Kate Brown said. “A choice only you can make. What happens next is up

QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com and STEVE LUNDEBERG/OSU News Oregon State University researchers are confirming what Newport residents have feared since early June – they have a significant coronavirus problem. Preliminary results from door-to-door sampling in Newport nine days ago by OSU suggest that 3.4 percent of Newport residents have the coronavirus — at least 17 to 34 times greater than the rate

By GARY A. WARNER/The Oregon Capital Bureau Everyone in Oregon will be required to wear masks or face coverings in indoor public spaces starting Wednesday to help curb the spread of COVID-19, Gov. Kate Brown announced Monday. “Over the last month, we have seen the disease spread at an alarming rate in both urban and rural counties,” Brown said

By ANGELA NEBEL/For YachatsNews.com Angela Martinez-Hernandez of Newport had just finished the medical assistant program at Oregon Coast Community College this month, when she heard about Lincoln County’s urgent need for bilingual workers to help trace contacts of people with COVID-19. “I know it is a scary situation and I knew I could help,” she said. Within days, Martinez-Hernandez

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com The coronavirus pandemic claimed its second life this week in Lincoln County, a 63-year-old Newport man who died Tuesday after being hospitalized Sunday with complications from COVID-19. Salvador Magana Rojas died at Samaritan Pacific Communities Hospital. His death follows the announcement Monday that Celerino Gamez Galicia, 68, of Puebla, Mexico, had died June 16 in Newport

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com Lincoln County and some of its cities are going separate ways on how or if to continue regulating residents and visitors amid the increasing number of local COVID-19 cases. The result is a growing mish-mash of restrictions depending on where people live or visit. County commissioners and councils or representatives of six of seven cities

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com Members of the city’s Parks and Commons Commission on Thursday gave a cool reception to an idea to rent out much of the city’s offices to a Florence dentist when staff move to the 501 Building late this year. Mayor John Moore said he wanted to “take the temperature” of renting out the vacated offices to