Central Coast Food Web wins $477,000 federal grant to help develop local markets for local seafood

November 9, 2023

BY GARRET JAROS/YachatsNews NEWPORT – Tucked in a nondescript building on the shore of Yaquina Bay is a new hub of innovation intent on transforming the local seafood market. Central Coast Food Web and its Yaquina Lab is a non-profit founded specifically to help local fisheries and other food producers on the central coast bring their products to local

Oregon Sea Grant selects Yachats resident for new education position at Hatfield Marine Science Center

November 9, 2023

By TIFFANY WOODS/Oregon Sea Grant Oregon Sea Grant has appointed Tracy Crews of Yachats to a new position of associate director of education to oversee its K-12 marine education program, the Oregon Coast STEM Hub, and the public education wing of the Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport. For the past 15 years Crews has led the marine education

Habitat for Humanity opens applications for two homes it plans to build in downtown Waldport

November 9, 2023

WALDPORT — Habitat for Humanity of Lincoln County has opened the application process for families to help build and own two homes it will construct in Waldport. Ground breaking in Waldport is expected to begin next summer with completion in late 2025. The housing nonprofit received a $360,000 state grant this year to help build two homes on property

New national and local report highlights the impact of Lincoln County arts organizations on the economy

November 8, 2023

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews For you, it may just be a night at the play, a trip to an art gallery or going somewhere to listen to live music. But with your admission ticket — maybe a dinner beforehand, drinks afterward, or overnight at a motel — that play, that gallery and that venue has a noticeable impact on Lincoln

Yachats fire district voters easily approve 61 cent operating levy; county voters OK increase in lodging tax

November 7, 2023

Voters in the Yachats Rural Protection District on Tuesday approved the district’s request to renew a 61 cent property tax levy to support its yearly operations. The five-year levy easily passed 827 to 311 after the third day of counting ballots Thursday, according to the Lincoln County clerk’s office. Voters across Lincoln County also widely approved – 9,011

When Celtic performers from around the world come to Yachats this weekend, you can thank volunteers from Polly Plumb Productions

November 6, 2023

By Oregon ArtsWatch YACHATS — World-renowned musicians will take the stage in Yachats this weekend to play Celtic music to sold-out crowds from all over Oregon and the U.S. Few will mind that they are sitting in a former elementary school auditorium, as frill-less as a Depression-era place of learning can be, aware only that they are among

Chief Donald “Doc” Slyter of Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw tribes dies Saturday of cancer

November 6, 2023

BY GARRET JAROS/YachatsNews Revered for his passion and commitment to the Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw – Chief Donald ‘Doc’ Slyter, who also served as a bridge to healing with the Yachats community – died Saturday surrounded by family at his home in Coos Bay. He was 72. Slyter had been diagnosed and under treatment for

A ride-a-long with a Lincoln County Sheriff’s deputy in Waldport illustrates why no day is a typical day

November 2, 2023

By GARRET JAROS/YachatsNews The phone calls to 9-1-1 reporting a man walking around with a rifle and stopping to aim at people’s houses came in while Lincoln County Sheriff’s deputies were at their morning briefing in Newport. Deputies Doug Honse and Zachary Akin wasted no motion as they hurried to their patrol vehicles and sped toward the South Beach

Soil tests for Yachats library project throw a monkey wrench into $1 million expansion plans

November 2, 2023

By CHERYL ROMANO/YachatsNews YACHATS — The plan all along had been to renovate and expand the 50-year-old Yachats Library on West Seventh Street with a $1.09 million makeover. But soil tests have dictated a “course correction”, in the words of one project leader. In early September, Foundation Engineering of Corvallis discovered it had to drill down 20 feet to

Yachats council asks staff to develop homeless camping ordinance so it can begin some type of enforcement

November 2, 2023

By GARRET JAROS/YachatsNews YACHATS – Getting an ordinance on the books to addresses homeless camping in Yachats moved forward Thursday with a request by the city council that staff pen a rough draft highlighting where camping will not be allowed. Yachats is the only city in Lincoln County without a public camping ordinance, which results in no enforcement options

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Central Coast Food Web wins $477,000 federal grant to help develop local markets for local seafood

Oregon Sea Grant selects Yachats resident for new education position at Hatfield Marine Science Center

Habitat for Humanity opens applications for two homes it plans to build in downtown Waldport

New national and local report highlights the impact of Lincoln County arts organizations on the economy

Yachats fire district voters easily approve 61 cent operating levy; county voters OK increase in lodging tax

When Celtic performers from around the world come to Yachats this weekend, you can thank volunteers from Polly Plumb Productions

Chief Donald “Doc” Slyter of Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw tribes dies Saturday of cancer

A ride-a-long with a Lincoln County Sheriff’s deputy in Waldport illustrates why no day is a typical day

Soil tests for Yachats library project throw a monkey wrench into $1 million expansion plans

Yachats council asks staff to develop homeless camping ordinance so it can begin some type of enforcement

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

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

Yachats “open mic” night

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