Yachats church seeks additional donations as money runs out for displaced workers; jobless claims total 4,000 for Lincoln County

May 7, 2020

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com Yachats Community Presbyterian Church has exhausted all of the money contributed to help out-of-work residents and Wednesday appealed for additional donations. In the past six weeks the church has given $74,300 to Yachats workers who have lost their jobs due to the coronavirus pandemic and resulting business closures. On Wednesday it ran through the last $5,100

Lincoln County’s reopening from coronavirus restrictions may be hampered by being grouped with Marion and other Willamette Valley counties

May 5, 2020

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews Lincoln County is well on its way to meeting state COVID-19 requirements for reopening businesses and allowing more social interaction, but may be slowed from doing that because it is been put into a planning region that includes a county with the highest rate of infection in Oregon. Gov. Kate Brown and the Oregon Health Authority are

Lincoln County hospitals begin to slowly resume elective procedures as governor’s restrictions loosen

May 4, 2020

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com The two hospitals in Lincoln County have resumed some elective medical procedures that were ordered stopped by Gov. Kate Brown at the start of Oregon’s response to the coronavirus pandemic six weeks ago. Brown and the Oregon Health Authority partially lifted restrictions on non-emergency care on Friday. That’s when Samaritan Pacific Communities Hospital in Newport and

Oregon Hatchery Research Center near Alsea helps contribute to new groundbreaking study on how salmon find their way home

May 4, 2020

Oregon State University researchers, including the director of the Oregon Hatchery Research Center near Alsea, are a step closer to solving one of nature’s most remarkable mysteries: How do salmon, when it’s time to spawn, find their way back from distant ocean locations to the stream where they hatched? A new study into the life cycle of salmon, involving magnetic

Governor and health officials outline initial details for reopening Oregon; Lincoln County releases guidelines for local businesses and recreation

May 1, 2020

By DICK HUGHES/Oregon Capital Bureau Gov. Kate Brown hopes that some rural areas with few or no COVID-19 cases could start reopening for business and other activities as soon as May 15. Brown held video conferences Friday afternoon with county and hospital officials in central and eastern Oregon to talk about testing, contact tracing and isolating of people infected with

City of Yachats news: Visitor center contract goes out for bid; next council meeting in late May; loan applications now online

April 30, 2020

The city of Yachats is seeking proposals by people or groups to run the city’s visitor center and marketing programs for the next two to six years. The current contract expires July 1 and is held by Yachats Chamber of Commerce. The chamber contracts with Beverly Wilson to do much of the work and organize volunteers. While the

The number of new jobless claims slow in Lincoln County, but totals remain at historic level

April 30, 2020

The number of unemployed workers in Lincoln County continues to pile up with another 408 people filing jobless claims for the week ending April 25, the Oregon Employment Department announced Thursday. The latest numbers bring the total new unemployment filings for the past six weeks to 3,654 – or almost 18 percent of its total workforce. Statewide, another 28,500

Lincoln County and six cities agree to extend ban on recreational visits to motels, rentals, RV parks and campgrounds

April 27, 2020

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com Unless the state of Oregon, Lincoln County and its seven cities come up with a plan for the gradual reopening of businesses, all motels, vacation rentals, campgrounds and RV parks will remain closed until May 31. County commissioners and five city councils this week approved extending for an additional month the closure of lodging to recreational visitors

Three-year study of Oregon resident gray whales show ocean conditions have big effect on their condition

April 27, 2020

By MICHELLE KLAMPE/OSU News Service NEWPORT — Three years of “health check-ups” on Oregon’s summer resident gray whales shows a compelling relationship between whales’ overall body condition and changing ocean conditions that likely limited availability of prey for the mammals, a new study from Oregon State University indicates. Researchers from the Geospatial Ecology of Marine Megafauna Laboratory at OSU’s Marine

Yachats council OKs $100,000 loan program for struggling businesses, rejects direct aid to church relief

April 23, 2020

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com The Yachats City Council on Thursday approved funding a loan program for small businesses to help them survive the state-imposed COVID-19 shutdown. The $100,000 program would be administered by a Springfield-based nonprofit called Community Lending Works, which would charge the city $4,000 to administer 2 percent business loans for up to four years. The city did not

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Yachats church seeks additional donations as money runs out for displaced workers; jobless claims total 4,000 for Lincoln County

Lincoln County’s reopening from coronavirus restrictions may be hampered by being grouped with Marion and other Willamette Valley counties

Lincoln County hospitals begin to slowly resume elective procedures as governor’s restrictions loosen

Oregon Hatchery Research Center near Alsea helps contribute to new groundbreaking study on how salmon find their way home

Governor and health officials outline initial details for reopening Oregon; Lincoln County releases guidelines for local businesses and recreation

City of Yachats news: Visitor center contract goes out for bid; next council meeting in late May; loan applications now online

The number of new jobless claims slow in Lincoln County, but totals remain at historic level

Lincoln County and six cities agree to extend ban on recreational visits to motels, rentals, RV parks and campgrounds

Three-year study of Oregon resident gray whales show ocean conditions have big effect on their condition

Yachats council OKs $100,000 loan program for struggling businesses, rejects direct aid to church relief

Letters from readers

Commissioner clarifies stance on Veterans Service levy on Nov. 4 ballot

Lincoln County ballot measure is a commitment to our veterans

$25,000 grant will help View the Future’s community conversations

Obituaries

Joe Chapman of Tenmile

Ruth R. Mock of Yachats — “Fiddlin Ruth”

Marie Jones of Newport

Civic Calendar

Port of Alsea commission special meeting

City of Yachats Parks & Commons Commission

Workshop meeting of Seal Rock and East Lincoln County fire district boards

Yachats Big Band monthly concert

Yachats Rural Fire Protection District board

Yachats Planning Commission monthly workshop meeting

Yachats Public Works & Streets Commission

Lincoln County School District board of directors

Waldport City Council

Lincoln Soil and Water Conservation District monthly board meeting

Public & Legal Notices

LEGAL NOTICE: Seal Rock Fire District and East Lincoln County Fire District

NOTICE TO INTERESTED PERSONS

A regular meeting of the Board of Directors of Central Lincoln PUD