Yachats’ only grocery store plans celebration after recent sprucing up, changing some suppliers, adding items

May 28, 2024

By GARRET JAROS/YachatsNews YACHATS – Customers of C&K Market – “the best grocery store in Yachats” as one employee quips about the only grocer in town – have likely noticed some changes the past month. Store manager Laura Mulroney had an inkling something was in the works a few months ago when corporate sent people with measuring tapes to

Oregon agency schedules one online, four community sessions for comments on offshore wind proposals

May 28, 2024

The Department of Land Conservation and Development is hosting a series of community meetings along the Oregon coast to share information and hear comments on a proposal by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management to lease areas of the ocean off Oregon’s coast to explore possibilities for wind energy development. The proposed leases would authorize companies to study the

Group of Yachats residents still show up every Saturday four years after first protest of George Floyd’s killing

May 26, 2024

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews At 10 a.m. every Saturday for four years a collection of Yachats-area residents grab homemade signs and stand along U.S. Highway 101 in the center of town to ask people to become more racially aware. They wave to people who honk as they drive past, or smile at others who give them a different type of

Lincoln County dispute over deputy contracts likely resolved for one year as sheriff agrees to absorb added costs

May 23, 2024

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews Lincoln County officials believe they have resolved – for one year at least — a dispute that broke into the public view last week over sheriff deputy contracts in Waldport and Yachats. The result – if county commissioners approve a proposal from Sheriff Curtis Landers next month – will have Waldport and Yachats splitting the cost

Revitalized Yachats emergency committee aims to help locals and visitors prepare for and survive disasters

May 23, 2024

By GARRET JAROS/YachatsNews YACHATS – Whether pandemic or prolonged power outage, forest inferno or earthquake with a tsunami chaser, preparing for possible emergencies on the Oregon coast is an essential that is best not postponed. Emergency planners across the nation map evacuation plans, prepare shelters and stock caches for a host of eventualities, and to varying degrees Oregon’s coastal

Wallace elected Lincoln County’s next district attorney, but learns three of six prosecutors departing soon

May 23, 2024

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews The biggest challenge for Lincoln County’s newly elected district attorney may not be prosecuting bad guys but finding and keeping attorneys on her staff. Jenna Wallace, the chief deputy district attorney who stepped in to run for district attorney at the last minute in March, won election this week to become Lincoln County’s third district attorney

Sea urchins devouring kelp beds off Oregon coast have indirect, negative impact on local gray whales, OSU study finds

May 22, 2024

By MICHELLE KLAMPE/OSU News Service NEWPORT — A boom in the purple sea urchin population off the southern Oregon coast appears to have had an indirect and negative impact on the gray whales that usually forage in the region, a new study shows. When urchin numbers rise, the spiky marine invertebrates can devour kelp forests that are a critical

Two of Yachats’ best-known trails advocates put pen to paper to write and publish new book

May 21, 2024

By CHERYL ROMANO/YachatsNews YACHATS — Scenic walking trails are big attractions for local residents and visitors, but how did they come to be? And who keeps the forest and seaside paths clear and groomed for year round use? The enlightening answers are in a new book, Yachats Trails … An illustrated History, which does more than look at the past

Art show, handcrafts, book bonanza, pancake breakfast fill Memorial Day weekend in Yachats

May 21, 2024

By CHERYL ROMANO/YachatsNews Summer starts sizzling this Memorial Day weekend in Yachats with a roster of special events and local traditions — an art show, a handcrafts and baked goods bazaar, an all-you-can eat pancake breakfast, a big book sale and a farmer’s market. Saturday and Sunday, May 25-May 26 Yachats Arts Guild “Spring Into Art!” show, 10 a.m.

Yachats prohibits camping at Little Log Church as group recommends taking other city sites off potential list

May 16, 2024

By GARRET JAROS/YachatsNews YACHATS – A group advising Yachats on homeless issues is recommending the city add four sites where camping would be banned — sites originally identified as the only city-owned property where camping might be allowed. These include properties next to water reservoirs in neighborhoods east of Highway 101 and a previously favored designated camping area near

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Yachats’ only grocery store plans celebration after recent sprucing up, changing some suppliers, adding items

Oregon agency schedules one online, four community sessions for comments on offshore wind proposals

Group of Yachats residents still show up every Saturday four years after first protest of George Floyd’s killing

Lincoln County dispute over deputy contracts likely resolved for one year as sheriff agrees to absorb added costs

Revitalized Yachats emergency committee aims to help locals and visitors prepare for and survive disasters

Wallace elected Lincoln County’s next district attorney, but learns three of six prosecutors departing soon

Sea urchins devouring kelp beds off Oregon coast have indirect, negative impact on local gray whales, OSU study finds

Two of Yachats’ best-known trails advocates put pen to paper to write and publish new book

Art show, handcrafts, book bonanza, pancake breakfast fill Memorial Day weekend in Yachats

Yachats prohibits camping at Little Log Church as group recommends taking other city sites off potential list

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