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By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews It’s 52 degrees in the garage where Julie and Dennis Wehling have been holed up since Saturday. And that’s with the wood stove blazing. That’s better than the 44 degrees in the kitchen of their adjacent triple-wide manufactured home. “We’re cold, but we’re OK,” Julie Wehling said Monday in a phone interview from her home in

By LORI TOBIAS/for YachatsNews NEWPORT — Friday afternoon, we’d arrived home from the Willamette Valley, where I’d had a doctor’s appointment. I’d watched weather reports for days, gauging the timing of our drive and a coming storm. Now home, I relaxed with the knowledge that we didn’t have to be anywhere. That night, as the snow began in Corvallis, I

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews Much of Lincoln County was hit with another series of power outages Tuesday afternoon when two large Central Lincoln Peoples Utility District transmission lines went out affecting more than 19,000 residential and business customers. Central Lincoln found the causes of both outages – ice-laden lines thawing and touching another line – and were undertaking repairs to restore

This is Sunday night’s story; see updated story at the top of the website By QUINTON SMITH and GARRET JAROS/YachatsNews A surprise ice storm knocked out power to wide swaths of Lincoln County on Saturday and Sunday, closing highways connecting the coast to the Willamette Valley and leading the city of Newport on Saturday and Lincoln County on

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews YACHATS – The Yachats fire district will continue to give and receive help on routine calls with its counterpart in Waldport under an “automatic aid” agreement its board tentatively approved Monday. The agreement would replace one from 2011. The Yachats Rural Fire Protection District board agreed the districts should continue to help each other – but