Graduation rates skyrocket at Waldport High School

January 24, 2019

Waldport High School increased its four-year graduation rate to almost 94 percent for the 2014-18 school years, the highest rate among the Lincoln County School District’s high schools and 15 percentage points higher than the Oregon average. Waldport High’s graduation rate of 93.88 percent for the class of 2018 was a 16.4 percent increase over the four-year period ending in

Yachats gets its first marijuana dispensary

January 23, 2019

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com Yachats has its first pot shop. Yachats Cannabis Company opened for business Tuesday afternoon in the long-vacant blue building at 430 N. Highway 101 across from City Hall and the Commons. The store is one of 609 licensed by the Oregon Liquor Control Commission; there are 25 retail marijuana shops in Lincoln County. The store is owned

Wave energy expert describes project to Yachats audience

January 15, 2019

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com If OSU builds it, will they come? Burke Hales and Oregon State University are betting $50 million in federal and state money that someone will. Hales is chief scientist for PacWave, an OSU-led consortium planning to install a wave-energy testing system stretching from seven miles west of Newport to a research center just north of Seal Rock.

Commons floor replacement hits snag

January 9, 2019

Replacing the floor of the Yachats Commons’ multipurpose room hit a snag this week, stopping work on the project until March. As contractors removed the top flooring in the room on Monday vinyl tiles underneath it pulled up. That meant the new floor couldn’t be installed over the old tiles without voiding warranties on it. But to remove the old

Burglars steal peace of mind for Yachats business owners

January 7, 2019

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com The laptops and copy machine have been replaced. The window has been fixed and the bank accounts frozen. But peace of mind for Wendy and Mike Snidow, longtime real estate brokers at Coastal Homes & Land in downtown Yachats is still missing. That’s after burglars broke into their office along Highway 101 late Sunday or early Monday,

2019 calendar benefits Yachats kids

January 3, 2019

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com You could say that the calendar for Yachats Youth and Family Activities Program started on Dec. 3, 2011. That’s when Ken Gagne of Yachats was loading his fishing boat at South Beach Marina and turned around to experience “the most beautiful sunset I’d ever seen.” He took out his $100 point-and-shoot camera and fired off a shot.

Welcome to YachatsNews.com

January 3, 2019

Welcome to a news website devoted to local journalism for Yachats and south Lincoln county Residents of Yachats are very interested and involved in their community – and very demanding of it. But the demise of traditional media and news coverage by even the smallest newspapers has left a void of clear, contextual, straight news reporting to help people understand