Along the Street: Culture group accepting grant applications
The Yamhill County Cultural Coalition is now accepting 2016 grant applications for projects and programs related to local arts, culture and history. Application forms were recently posted on the group’s ...
Mac plans to cut grade school class sizes
McMinnville elementary schools will have smaller classes next year under a spending unveiled Wednesday night by Superintendent Maryalice Russell. She proposes using reserve funds to reduce average class ...
McMinnville unveils city 2015-16 budget
As the economy has begun to improve,both locally and nationally, the city of McMinnville is looking to loosen its belt just a bit. That is reflected in a proposed 2015-16 budget up for comment during a ...
Students get primer on justice system
Judges need to balance the media’s right to report information and the public’s right to know with a defendant’s right to a fair trial, the Hon. John Collins told Linfield College students ...
County OKs $1 million in budget changes
During meetings held Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, the Yamhill County Budget Committee left unchaged the county’s property tax rate for the new fiscal year starting July 1 unchanged at $2.57 per ...
Y-C senior wins Merit Scholarship
YAMHILL — Jake Bibb, who is about to graduate from Yamhill-Carlton High School, has won a $2,500 National Merit Scholarship from the National Merit Scholarship Corporation. Bibb is planning to study ...
Lemonade Day helps kids make money and make a difference
Erin Taylor was amazed by the size of the cookies offered at the lemonade stand outside Serendipity Ice Cream, on the south side of Third and Evans streets in McMinnville. “They’re bigger than ...
Locals remember VE Day
When the news came on May 8, 1945, George Hudson’s Air Corps softball team was playing for the Italian championship. Suddenly, the airmen-turned-ballplayers heard the official announcement — ...
Stopping By: Aboard the wide Missouri
Virgil Wray celebrated his 89th birthday at almost the same spot where he celebrated his 20th and 21st birthdays. But this time, there was a lot more fanfare. On March 10, Wray marked his birthday by ...
Mac City Pastors mount downtown patrols
Hoping to help McMinnville cope with objectionable youth behavior downtown, a local church coalition has begun patrolling Third Street on Friday nights, which represent a particular problem time. Organized ...
Willamina teacher arrested for allegedly assaulting her daughter
This article was updated on Friday, May 5. WILLAMINA — Heather McDonald Hughes, who teaches at Willamina Middle School and coaches track at Willamina High School, was arrested by Yamhill County ...
90 days meted in child, animal sex case
McMinnville resident Casie Nelson was sentenced to three months in the Yamhill County Jail and five years probation Monday, resolving cases in which she pleaded guilty to encouraging child sexual abuse, ...
Lawyers inform students of rights, responsibilities
NEWBERG — A dozen lawyers spent Friday morning at Newberg High School talking with seniors the rights and responsibilities they will have as adults. Judge Ronald Stone, who organized the event, ...
FFA members nurture success
McMinnville High School horticulture students will be selling bedding plants, vegetable starts and flowering baskets at their annual plant sale, set tor Thursday and Friday, May 7 and 8. The sale will ...
Along the Street: Pier 1 Imports closing its doors
Pier 1 Imports plans to close its McMinnville outlet by the end of May. The Texas-based retailer opened the 9,000-square-foot store in the fall of 2001. At the time, the decorative home furnishings retailer ...
