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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Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek appointed Jenna Wallace as Lincoln County’s next district attorney on Friday as Lanee Danforth’s resignation takes effect six months before the end of her troubled four-year term.
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When Oregon State University asked years ago to expand its Hatfield Marine Science Center it made a commitment to develop housing for some of the students, faculty and researchers drawn to the new facility. On Monday, it officially broke ground on a $16.5 million, 77-unit apartment project to do just that.
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Lincoln County’s embattled district attorney announced Monday she will resign June 21 and that she has asked the Oregon Department of Justice to come in and help run the office.
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A Yachats developer has completed a $10.9 million affordable rental housing project in Florence and has plans on the drawing board for two more projects totaling $22 million.
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The demonstration started spontaneously to protest George Floyd’s killing, but the group is spreading its efforts into other endeavors.
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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.
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Wallace will be next Lincoln County district attorney; Hall and Beasley in November runoff; all money measures passing
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Lincoln County voters have a wide array of choices – five to be exact — in the May primary to decide who occupies one of three seats on the board of commissioners — or if two candidates go to a runoff in November.
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This month, Lincoln County voters will have a choice of who replaces Lanee Danforth, the one-term district attorney whose term has been marked by office turmoil and turnover, public clashes with county commissioners, and a federal lawsuit by a former deputy district attorney.
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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.