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By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews Lincoln County has started its temporary winter program for the homeless in Lincoln City even though it has been unable to find and purchase property for a permanent shelter there. The county’s new shelter in Newport and a similar service now in Lincoln City is its first attempt to establish a walk-in shelter system for the

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews WALDPORT – Laura Abel is just trying to bring people together one small pizza at a time. So for 37 straight Sundays – and during the summer at the Waldport Wednesday Market – she has set up shop in a gravel parking lot along U.S. Highway 101 between a coffee shop and cannabis dispensery and given

Editor’s note: A paragraph in this story on response times and units responding to a Dec. 11 trailer fire on the south edge of Waldport has been updated and corrected. By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews Thirteen years of three small local fire districts helping each other out when responding to calls could end in mid-January because of philosophical and

By CHRISTIAN WHITOL/The Lund Report CORVALLIS — UnitedHealth Group, the nation’s biggest health care corporation, is continuing its expansion drive in Oregon with a bid to buy The Corvallis Clinic, an independent 11-clinic physician-owned system in the mid-Willamette Valley. Under the deal, the clinic network, founded 76 years ago, would become an arm of Optum Health, the burgeoning United

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews A very wet early December pushed rainfall totals for 2023 to near average in the Yachats area, according to YachatsNews’ weather watchers, after much of a year that was drier and warmer than usual. And, as always, the amount of rainfall depended on whether it was measured near the ocean or in the foothills of the

By GARRET JAROS/YachatsNews Silence greeted some Lincoln County radio listeners on New Year’s Day after a longtime broadcast institution folds under financial failure. After 75 years of operation, Yaquina Bay Communications of Newport and its five remaining stations serving Lincoln City, Newport and Waldport aired for the last time Sunday. The stations are KNPT-AM and KNCU-FM in Newport, KBCH-AM