Second annual Yachats Agate Festival kicks off Jan. 19 at Yachats Commons

A Waldport woman named Sheri found this fossil, showing a dark bone, attached to a mass mortality mud stone plate of fossil shells, said K. Myers, who owns a gem shop in Newport and will have fossils and agates on hand at the second annual Yachats Agate Festival on Jan. 19 and 20. (Courtesy photo)

YACHATS – Organizers of the second annual Yachats Agate Festival say that with 26 vendors and a hands-on approach to agate viewing, they expect a good turnout this weekend.

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