YCAP launches window repair

The Yamhill Community Action Partnership, which operates a regional food bank operation and an array of other programs from quarters off Riverside Drive, has finally begun repairing windows that sprung ...

 

Awards honor distinguished citizens

Some of McMinnville’s most dedicated community members were honored Monday night at the 62nd annual Distinguished Service Award Banquet. The event is a chance to recognize people who have helped ...

Search continues for missing Sheridan man

SHERIDAN — Authorities on Monday resumed a search of the South Yamhill River for 24-year-old Brian Disabatino of Sheridan, who fell in early Saturday morning from the Green Bridge downtown. Yamhill ...

Today is Giving Day at Linfield

Today is Linfield College Giving Day. It got its official start at 6:58 p.m. Monday, or 18:58 in 24-hour clock parlance. The aim was to recognize the year of Linfield’s founding — 1858. It ...

Driver identified in fatal crash

Brenden Duck was fingered by several people as the driver of the stolen car that struck and killed a Sheridan motorcyclist last month, according to court records. A 19-year-old McMinnville resident, he ...

Lemonade Day slated Saturday

Lemonade will be the drink of choice this weekend in McMinnville.   More than one hundred young people, from kindergarten through high school age, will be out in force Saturday for the community’s ...

Concert will cap church anniversary

Past and present choir members will perform “O Sing Out, Be Joyful!” during a sesquicentennial concert slated Saturday night at McMinnville First Baptist Church, located downtown at First and ...

Paper Gardens winners to be honored

Winners of the 2017 Paper Gardens writing contest will be honored in a ceremony and book release at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Chehalem Cultural Center, 415 E. Sheridan St. in Newberg. Winning poetry and ...

 

Mac High students glimpse 3-D future

Chantelle Sims is about to lead a dozen McMinnville High School tech students into the inner sanctum of Rapid NW Manufacturing, which is tucked into a nondescript building in Bunn Village, at the north ...

Author schedules reading

Award-winning fiction writer Peter Ho Davies will read from his new book, “The Fortunes,” Friday at Linfield College. The free reading is set for 7:30 p.m. in the Jereld R. Nicholson Library. “The ...

Duniway students write to win

Even if she hadn’t placed first in the prose division of Duniway Middle School’s annual writing festival, sixth-grader Breeana Hill would have been pleased by the way classmates reacted to ...

Opponents appeal landfill ruling to Supreme Court

Argues Appeals Court changed meaning of state land use law

Paving will close Fifth

Weather permitting, Fifth Street will be resurfaced between Evans and Galloway streets from Tuesday to Friday, May 2 to 5. The street will be closed to traffic while the work is underway. The closure will ...

 

Preparing for a regional catastrophe

A Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake — aka, “the big one” — is overdue in the Pacific Northwest, geologically-speaking. The zone has produced a massive new quake every 300 years ...

Residents ask county not to cut Solid Waste

Two county residents asked county commissioners Thursday to reconsider cutting the hours of Solid Waste Coordinator Sherrie Mathison. Ramsey McPhillips and Steve Iverson told commissioners Mathison serves ...

Sheridan City Council meeting postponed

SHERIDAN - A Sheridan City Council meeting, originally scheduled for 7 o'clock tonight at city hall, has been postponed until 7 p.m. Monday, April 8.  

Mom tells abuser he scarred victim for life

The mother of a girl sexually abused by 43-year-old Robert Holman said she has been “scarred for life” as a result. Knowing what he did to her child is a mother’s worst nightmare, she ...

Wright, Gullo to speak about wine

Winemaker Ken Wright of Carlton and wine writer Jim Gullo of McMinnville will speak Monday, May 1, at Linfield College. The free lecture will start at 7:30 p.m. in Ice Auditorium on campus. Wright commissioned ...

 

McMinnville man indicted in fatal motorcycle crash

The Oregon State Police is continuing its investigation into the April 14 motorcycle crash that claimed the life of a Sheridan husband and father of four. Brenden Duck, a 19-year-old from McMinnville, ...

 

Rescue teams searching South Yamhill River at Sheridan

 

Character revealed: Mac rallies to drop Titans, 5-4

Heywood Broun, the noted journalist and sportswriter of the first half of the 20th century said, “Sports do not build character. They reveal it.” McMinnville’s softball team’s ...

 

Adversity to advantage! Cats roll to NWC title after 1st game loss

Adversity can be advantageous. In the case of Linfield’s baseball team, the tribulation from losing its first round game Friday coalesced its talent into a potent group, which then swept ...

 

Baptism under fire

It was a baptism under fire for the McMinnville Grizzly softball team Tuesday on its home diamond, as it rallied from a 3-0 deficit winning a 5-3 contest over hot-hitting McNary. The win kept them ...

 

'Cats sweep Blues, take NWC title

WALLA WALLA – The Linfield College baseball team flattened Whitman over the weekend, sweeping all three games from the Blues at Borleske Stadium, to award ‘Cat head coach Scott Carnahan ...

 

Grizzlies reign over Saxons, rain, 1-0

McMinnville’s Grizzly softball team (9-1, 4-0 GVC) had a taste of playoff softball Wednesday as it scratched out a 1-0 victory over feisty South Salem (6-4, 1-2 GVC) Tuesday at the McMinnville ...

 

Leid, Smith shut down Sprague

The unknown abruptly became known Saturday when the McMinnville Grizzlies baseball team dropped Sprague from the ranks of the undefeated by a 5-4 margin, in the process overcoming a late-inning ...

 

Barnes’ undefeated season, 3rd title reaps AoY award

Who knows where Brian Barnes would be today if he hadn’t been an energetic adolescent kid growing up? Seeking an outlet for all that exuberance, Barnes took up wrestling at a relatively young ...

 

The Spink mindset: ‘You have to think you’re the best’

DAYTON – To truly understand the best, you must play against the best. Which is exactly what I did Sunday afternoon: I challenged the News-Register’s girls’ basketball Athlete of the ...

 

AoY Zach Bernards forever entwined in basketball, Dayton community spirit

Dayton’s Zach Bernards didn’t have to think long when asked when he started playing basketball. “Forever is accurate – I really couldn’t tell you when this started,” ...

 

Carney wins 600th!

ORANGE/LA VERNE, Calif. –Scott Carnahan achieved his 600th win as head coach of the Wildcats, while his team won two of three contests in the tough SCIAC league over the weekend, upping its ...

Photo entries due

Entries for the Agriculture in Art photography competition are due by Monday, April 3. The Yamhill Valley Camera Club is coordinating the contest. All photos must depict Yamhill County farm life in one ...

 

Grizzly girls’ team eyes GVC title, state

For senior Ally Legard (and the rest of her senior mates) on the McMinnville girls’ track team, the 2017 season doubles as a farewell tour in which both team and personal goals are the focus. Notes ...

 

CASON rolling along: Cunningham strikes out 14 as ‘Cats take two from Pioneers

About the call that never materialized – Linfield head baseball coach Scott Carnahan is ever so happy. Cason Cunningham, Linfield’s left-handed pitcher, spent four years in the US ...

 

Shooting for the stars! Grizzly softball team’s vision a state title

Preseason involves doing the hard work, animating the vision of the future. McMinnville’s Grizzly softball team head coach Larry Nichols notes, “If these girls are the competitors I ...

 

After state championship... Mac cheer squad preps for national title

What do you do after winning the state championship? That’s easy: take on the nation – exactly what McMinnville High School’s cheer squad will do later this March. They travel ...

 

Dayton boys capture fifth state title, defeat De La Salle North Catholic, 64-55

COOS BAY – Dayton's boys' basketball team has been crowned 3A state champs after a thrilling 64-55 victory over De La Salle North Catholic in Saturday's title matchup held at the Pirate Palace ...

 

Dayton girls denied the three-peat as they fall 36-34 to Cavaliers in title game

COOS BAY – There will be no three-peat for the Dayton girls' basketball team as they dropped a 36-34 championship bout to the Blanchet Catholic Cavaliers in tonight's title game held at Marshfield ...

 

Warrior boys suffer controversial 62-61 defeat to Salem Academy; finish sixth in state

COOS BAY – Amity's postseason run ended in heartbreak and controversy with today's 62-61 loss to Salem Academy in the OSAA state tournament fourth place game held at the Pirate Palace at ...

 

Dayton girls one step from history, defeat Coquille, 55-45

COOS BAY – Dayton girls' have cleared the penultimate hurdle on their way to a third consecutive title after defeating Coquille, 55-45, in tonight's semifinal contest held at the Pirate Palace at ...

 

Pirate boys will play for title after vanquishing Cascade Christian, 72-62

COOS BAY – Dayton's boys' basketball team booked its trip to the 3A state championship after knocking off Cascade Christian, 72-62, in Friday's semifinal held at Marshfield High School's ...