CARLTON — The theme of this year’s Fun Days celebration may be “Carlton’s Got the Blues,” but that’s simply a reference to the music. Festival-goers’ moods will ...
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31st Annual Lions Club Pancake Breakfast
Sunday, June 25
The 31st annual McMinnville Lions Club Fly-in/Drive-in/Ride-in Pancake Breakfast will be held Sunday, June 25 from 7am to noon at the McMinnville Airport. Breakfast for adults is $8, kids under 10 $4. See fun helo demonstrations or even take a ride in a helicopter for $25. Proceeds support Lions Club charities. See you there!
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McMinnville Fireworks
Tuesday, July 4
The “Celebrate in Mac: July 4th Spectacular” will begin at 5 p.m. Tuesday, July 4, at the Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum, 500 Northeast Captain Michael King Smith Way. The event includes food vendors, merchant booths, a farmers market, beer tent, and fireworks beginning about 9:30 p.m. Museum admission for this occasion will be $5.
For more information, visit mcminnville.org/july-4th/.
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Report terms arts 'a good investment'
The arts bring people together, give them a chance to laugh and learn, and help them celebrate a shared culture. But if you think that’s all the arts contribute to the community, think again. According ...
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Partners Terrence Kay and Gregory Brown announced Thursday they were putting the Bayou Golf Course & Estate up for sale at $1.95 million. They are giving the roughly 2,000 members who signed on after ...
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Drug investigation nets three arrests
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McMinnville garbage rates will go up 5 percent if the city council approves an increase being sought by Recology Western Oregon. This means a residential customer having a 96-gallon trash container would ...
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Pearson retires, but keeps showing up for work
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Three injured in multi-car pileup
SHERIDAN — Three people suffered minor injuries Tuesday afternoon in a multiple-vehicle crash east of Sheridan on Highway 18. Traffic had to be re-routed around the scene for 3 1/2 hours. Law enforcement ...
Soccer player making progress
Brian Ceras, the eighth-grader who collapsed due to an undiagnosed, congenital heart condition, was scheduled to have open heart surgery Thursday. He has been gradually improving since June 2, when he ...
Sliding from preschool to kindergarten
LAFAYETTE — Graduates-to-be smiled and posed for pictures with parents, grandparents and their favorite teacher, Barbara Curtis. They reminisced with one another about the challenges they’d ...
Amity schools settle on one mascot
AMITY — All three Amity schools will be known as the Warriors starting next year, the school board decided Wednesday night. Only the high school has called itself the Warriors in the past. The middle ...
Mac school board to meet
McMinnville School Board members on Monday, June 26, will hold a work session about bond projects and a regular business meeting, which will include a hearing on the 2017-18 budget. The work session will ...
Sheridan public works head resigns
SHERIDAN — City Manager Frank Sheridan and the Sheridan City Council regretfully said goodbye to Public Works Director Kie Cottom at this week’s meeting. He resigned after six years with the ...
Sex abuser carried out 'horrible' acts
Defense attorney Elana Andrew-Flynn acknowledged her client, child sexual abuser Chrissy Dugger, had engaged in some “horrible” conduct during the month-long period at issue. Dugger ...
Health care tax passes Oregon Legislature, heads to governor
SALEM — A $670 million health care tax package has passed the Oregon Legislature and now heads to Gov. Kate Brown, providing enough funds over the next two years to prevent Medicaid recipients from losing health care and avoid closing a newly-built psychiatric hospital with hundreds of patients and workers.
Veterans offered free dental care
Aspen Dental will provide a day of free dental care for veterans on Saturday, June 24. More than 440 Aspen Dental practices across the country are offering the free care. The local office is located at ...
Funds available for shelters, food banks
Nonprofit shelters and food banks have until 5 p.m. Friday, June 30, to apply for a portion of the $47,000 Yamhill County has received from the federal government. Money is available for governmental or ...
Summer feeding programs begin
With classes ending, some area school districts will begin hosting free summer meal programs for children 18 and under. In most cases, meals will be served in school cafeterias. However, some districts ...
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