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By MAX KIRKENDALL/Lincoln County News-Guard Lincoln County’s first COVID-19 patient – and the first to be hospitalized – is back home after 10 weeks of treatment and recovery. But Anne Fehringer-Williams, 65, of Gleneden Beach, who was placed on a ventilator and put into a coma during her treatment in Portland, has some cautionary advice for local residents. As

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com Oregon Gov. Kate Brown is requiring that people wear face coverings in Lincoln County and six other counties effective June 24 while they are inside public places like grocery stores and other businesses. The other counties included in the surprise order this week are Marion, Polk, Hood River and three Portland-area counties of Multnomah, Washington and

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com Oregon State University is expanding its groundbreaking COVID-19 sampling and research project into Newport this weekend to see how far the coronavirus has spread into the community. The effort comes on the heals of Oregon’s largest workplace outbreak of COVID-19 at Pacific Seafood’s processing plants that is now spreading rapidly through the Newport area. Lincoln County,

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews It’s easy to glimpse the debate over wearing masks in public during the coronavirus pandemic. Just take a quick walk through downtown Yachats on a sunny Thursday. The great majority of visitors – yes, we asked – walk from shop to shop and restaurant to store without face coverings. Yachats residents – yes, we asked — seem

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com The Oregon Health Authority on Sunday reported another eight COVID-19 cases in Lincoln County as of midnight Saturday, bringing to 51 the number of new cases in the county last week. There are now have been 206 cases in Lincoln County, including the 127 workers at Pacific Seafood. Lincoln County now the fifth highest case count of

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com Unsettled by a large outbreak in Lincoln County COVID-19 cases, county commissioners have again decided against asking the state to enter Phase 2 of Oregon’s reopening plan. Monday’s decision came quickly and with no debate after the announcement Sunday of a 127-case outbreak among workers at Pacific Seafood in Newport. It followed a decision last Friday to

By DANA TIMS/YachatsNews.com Lindsey Johnson, like so many others, had been reading all about the critical shortage of personal protective equipment facing first responders and other front-line workers helping to curb the wildfire spread of the coronavirus. Unlike others, however, Johnson, a long-time Lincoln City cabinet-maker and designer, found himself in a position to do something about it. Working

By DANA TIMS/YachatsNews.com WALDPORT — When the coronavirus pandemic closed Waldport High School nearly three months ago, no one had a clue what the future held for anything close to a “normal” graduation for the school’s 37-member senior class. But several mountain’s worth of learning curves have been scaled since then, paving the way for Friday night’s first “virtual”