Quinton Smith
Quinton Smith founded YachatsNews in 2019 after a 40-year career as a reporter and editor for United Press International and three Oregon newspapers. He worked in various editing positions at The Oregonian from 1984 to 2008 where he led a reporting team that won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News.
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It’s been 40 years since Kelly Disney mysteriously disappeared off the streets of Newport. Her skull was found 10 years later, but the rest of her body has never been recovered. -
Corinne McElroy was pulled from the cold ocean waters with the help of bystanders- one of whom remains a mystery. -
A judge said Tuesday that a Yachats businesswoman’s complex of four yurts and a recreational vehicle on 20 acres of forest land violates zoning ordinances. -
Landers was appointed by county commissioners to the vacant position in June 2016, elected for the first time five months later and re-elected in 2020, running unopposed both times. -
Birgitte Ryslinge, who has been president of Oregon Coast Community College the past 10 years, announced Wednesday that she planned to retire by Sept. 30. -
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 Sunday to declare a state of emergency. -
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.
