Provoking Hope program sets a path to overcome addiction, detach from criminal behavior and serve the community
News & Features
Council agrees on May bond for $80 million rec center
Only a few questions remain on the design of a new $80 million Riverside Drive recreation center, but McMinnville City Council agreed Tuesday to delay a municipal bond measure until the May 2027 election ...
Stopping By: Life of music
Willamina musician Johnny Wheels sings the blues but lives with positive purpose
Starrett faces backlash over comments about racism
Community members turned out to Thursday’s Board of Commissioners meeting to condemn Mary Starrett’s comments last week over a car yelling racial slurs at a group of girls in Newberg. After ...
Mac Water & Light passes budget, breaks ground
McMinnville Water & Light will spend approximately $28 million in reserves over the 2026-27 fiscal year, largely on its headquarters renovation. The utility remains in sound financial shape despite ...
Emerald Ash Borer found in Newberg
The emerald ash borer has been detected in a parking lot outside Newberg and in Tualatin and Silverton, the Oregon Department of Forestry reported this week. “This June, the Oregon Department of ...
Attempted murder, sexual assault trial continued
The Yamhill County District Attorney’s Office has requested a continuance in the attempted murder trial of Travis William Ferguson. Prosecutors told Circuit Court Judge Cynthia Easterday that lab ...
DCI International leaving for Wilsonville
DCI International, one of Newberg’s largest employers and a fixture of Newberg’s manufacturing economy for more than four decades, announced Tuesday it is leaving Newberg and consolidating its Oregon operations at a newly purchased campus in Wilsonville.
Willamina ready to continue tradition
The build up to the Willamina Old Fashioned Fourth of July is year-long as the committee members raise funds for 12 months with two mud drag events, bake sales, t-shirt sales and other fundraisers. At ...
4th of July celebrations around the county
In honor of the 250th Independence Day celebration, events across the county are aiming to be bigger and better. Willamina's annual Old Fashioned Fourth of July celebration will be graced with an Air ...
Recover, rebuild
Provoking Hope program sets a path to overcome addiction, detach from criminal behavior and serve the community
Provoking Hope worried about sale of Hope House
When the owners of one of Provoking Hope’s “Hope House” residential recovery facilities decided to sell the property so they could retire, staff and clients of the nonprofit worried. Provoking ...
Madison Street repairs create gridlock in Lafayette
Road repairs on Madison Street in Lafayette led to gridlocked traffic on Thursday afternoon. Eastbound traffic on Pacific Highway 99W through Lafayette bunched from Northeast Mattey Road to the east side ...
Kotek’s prosperity council pushes for lower taxes, fewer regulations
To jumpstart Oregon’s economic development, the state should cut taxes, eliminate a key state climate program and allocate a quarter of a billion state dollars for business infrastructure needs every two years, according to a new report from Gov. Tina Kotek’s economic advisers.
Arrests & Citations: June 26, 2026
Yamhill County Sheriff’s Office Adam Michael Haskins, 38, Salem, June 18, first-degree failure to appear; booked into the Yamhill County Jail on $25,000 bail. John Wayne Bailey, 50, McMinnville, ...
Homeowner appeals over 50-year-old approval
An unusual appeal hearing stemming from a 1976 land use approval may be solved before the Yamhill County Board of Commissioners weigh in; noticing necessary for the appeal could solve the dispute. Dayton ...
Hospitality with heart
New soup kitchen manager enjoying transition from private chef to feeding those in need
Lincoln City parks director to take over in Mac
Lincoln City Parks and Recreation Director Jeanne Sprague will move from the beach to the valley, taking over the same position in McMinnville starting July 27. Sprague will join McMinnville during a ...
Couple loses home, belongings in arson fire
In the late evening of June 12, a fire broke out with two seniors and a child in the home. A family member was later arrested for allegedly committing arson. At 11:02 p.m. the ...
Gas leak leads to evacuations in Lafayette
South Jefferson Street homes were evacuated for a several hours on Monday, June 22, in Lafayette after reports of a gas leak. City Administrator Branden Dross told the News-Register that a contractor ...
Sex offender gets 22 years
Michael Adams James Cline, 37, was sentenced to 22 years with the Department of Corrections after entering a guilty plea of first-degree sodomy on June 15. The mother of the victim told the court she ...
Sports
Photo Gallery: Past versus present
McMinnville alumni took on current Grizzly varsity players on Wednesday for the first of what hopes to become an annual basketball game between the school’s past and future graduates. In front of ...
Upon Further Review: Covering history at Hayward
In my travels across the nation to view athletics for both work and pleasure, few cathedrals of sport have attracted my gaze more than historic Hayward Field. Growing up in a family whose lineage had ...
Grizzlies taking a page from Wildcats' playbook
Those in charge of McMinnville High School football are always trying to find ways to improve, and after losing more than a dozen seniors and all but one game in 2025, the Grizzlies are taking every opportunity ...
Mac's Carpenter, Amity's Howard reach record marks at Nike Outdoor Nationals
Two McMinnville school records and an overwhelming personal best marked some of the praiseworthy performances by Yamhill County athletes during the Nike Outdoor Nationals annual track and field invite ...
Youth softball players, coaches learn from Portland's professional team
Professional softball players and the youth athletes they’re inspiring met for the first time in Hillsboro last weekend. The newly-founded Portland Cascade of the Athletes Unlimited Softball League ...
Willamina Mud Drags offering new SXS class
This Saturday, June 27, the Willamina Mud Drags are returning to the West Valley with a new event for spectators to enjoy and racers to partake. Outside of the usual Super Modified, Modified, four and ...
Grizzlies baseball star praises family, community for strength to battle adversity
When Cameron Hyder entered the ranks of McMinnville High School baseball, he was not projected to become the player he was during the Grizzlies’ most recent spring season. Hyder shined as an athlete. ...
Tiger girls basketball 'in a good place' with incoming freshman
There is a consensus opinion from opposing coaches facing the Yamhill Carlton girls basketball team during summer league: they’re going to be fun to watch. Despite being down in games and fairly ...
Pirates, Tigers using basketball offseason to reinforce leadership skills, toughness on the court
County rivalries take on a different form in the summer. The mood is more playful, but the competition is just as heated. Such was the case last week when Dayton High School hosted the boys’ basketball ...
Fueling the future: Warriors measuring success by 'getting better every day' of summer basketball league
The ability to play freely was one of the major contributors to success for Amity’s girls’ basketball championships over the last two seasons. A few years of defeat while falling short also ...
Miersma, Lomeli represent Warriors in All-Star showcase
A throng of elite class 2A, 3A and 4A basketball players assembled at the Warrior gymnasium and Amity High School on June 12-13. For two days, seniors who took the winter by storm donned their school’s ...
Upon Further Review: Regret, reminiscence and goals to be glorified
The world’s game has taken over North America. Every four years, nationalism and patriotism — depending on your point of view — take over sporting news for the better in most ways. The ...
Three locals named to All-State teams
A trio of Yamhill County athletes earned Oregon School Activities Association All-State recognition, as selections were announced this week by the organization for boys and girls tennis and boys volleyball. Among ...
Local girls flag rugby league ends first season with for players and parents to enjoy game
On Sunday, June 6, the Mid-Willamette League of girls rugby met at Joe Dancer Park in McMinnville to finish its inaugural season. Six fields were in use as young ruggers laughed and smiled while playing ...
Grizzlies taking summer ball as opportunity to embrace new roles
Though the calendar hasn’t yet marked it, summer is in full swing for the Mac-Willamette Valley Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Varsity baseball team. The Grizzlies’ offseason squad has been ...
Amity's Dyer, McMullen named 3A Coaches of the Year
On Saturday, May 30, Amity High School head coaches Jed McMullen (girls basketball) and Andy Dyer (girls soccer) each received recognition as Class 3A Coaches of the Year for their respective sports ...
Photo Gallery: All for one, one for all
Between the high school and collegiate level, five softball teams from Yamhill County made a run through their respective playoff tournaments. Though none were able to capture a title, many set records ...
3A Softball: Yamhill Carlton's Bradfield named Special District 3 Pitcher of the Year
On top of their first league title since 2022 and a trip to the 3A State semifinals, Yamhill Carlton’s softball team owned a fair share of their Special District 3 all-league awards. Headlining ...
3A Baseball: Five Tigers, Pirate trio head all-league awards
As the 3A baseball season ended, 12 ball players from Yamhill County represented their respective squads as all-league honorees in Special District 3. A pair of Tigers from Yamhill Carlton came away with ...
Upon Further Review: The game with a heart beat
Since moving to McMinnville in May of 2025, I have been gobsmacked by the sport that is fastpitch softball. The reasoning’s in the name, end of story. All joking aside, fastpitch offers everything ...
