Rachel Thompson/News-Register##Brynn Moir, who co-founded Zero Waste’s Plastics Project, shows how she uses big jars to hold bulk foods in her personal effort to eliminate plastics from her home. She brings her own non-plastic containers or cotton drawstring bags to Harvest Fresh and other stores.

Stopping By: Green advocate works to 'reframe, retrain'

 

Living a green lifestyle is not difficult, said Brynn Moir, who cofounded Zero Waste’s Plastic Project with Jeri White. “It’s just different.” Her goal is to “reframe ...


Commentary

 
The Conversation: New opportunities for women opening up in Orthodox Judaism

By MICHAL RAUCHER Of Rutgers University When people picture a rabbi, they may imagine a man standing in front of a congregation in a synagogue. But the term “rabbi” means much more than ...

The Conversation: Buddhist nuns win access to advanced degree

By DARCIE PRICE-WALLACEOf Northwestern University In August, 161 Tibetan Buddhist nuns from religious institutions across India and Nepal — a record number — gathered at the Dolma Ling Nunnery ...

Bladine: Immigration enforcement war needs a solution

Tracking national news these days is an exhausting mental labor. This week alone, among others, we’ve been confronted with high-octane controversies related to Venezuela, Iran, Greenland, Mark Kelly, ...

Goldberg: Mamdani's call for collectivism dead on arrival

By JONAH GOLDBERG The day before the Trump administration captured and extradited Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro, many on the right, including yours truly, had a field day mocking something newly ...

Investigating the Bible: The edited life

E.B. White’s short book, “The Elements of Style,” has elementary rules of composition to improve English usage; these are too often broken, yours truly included. Some violations ...

Editorials

Let's lower our sights and cut deal on Alpine project

Palindrome’s $80.5 million proposal for redevelopment of Alpine Avenue’s former RB Rubber site stood out for one clear reason: It was the most audacious and ambitious of the eight submissions. ...

 
A lot to like in the result, a lot less in the process

Celebrated English playwright William Shakespeare coined the oft-quoted phrase, “All’s well that ends well,” to serve as the name of a play he wrote and produced in 1623. And even then, ...

All signs point to another year of trail controversy

Yamhill County — where public park development has not been a high priority — has park projects drawing high public interest going into 2026. County leaders are planning to eliminate the expansive ...

 
Leapfrogs and bookends mark local issues at the turn of the year

Resolution and reverberation offer different ways to define 2025 in Yamhill County. As we look at Yamhill County’s year past and year ahead, local issues often either bookended or leapfrogged: many ...

 
Good intentions gone awry leave Oregon in the lurch

It’s been a long time coming, but a sitting Oregon governor finally conceded earlier this month, at Oregon’s annual Oregon Leadership Summit, that business leaders have a point when they complain ...

Letters

News-Register Letters Policy

The News-Register welcomes written opinions about issues of public interest and about the content of this newspaper. Letters from non-local writers are accepted only if they focus on local issues. This ...

Letters to the Editor: Jan. 16, 2026

Poor example I attended the city council meeting on Tuesday, Jan. 13, to learn if the City was going to respond to recent ICE activity, and if so, what the response would consist of. It was clear there ...

 
Letters to the Editor: Jan. 9, 2026

Follow the money We are watching the biggest wealth transfer in history. Wealth that is moving from ordinary Americans to the richest people on Earth. Our middle class is the last repository of wealth ...

Letters to the editor: Dec. 31, 2025

No moral compass I can understand how a person of Christian faith would be encouraged by this president’s remarks during the lighting of the national Christmas tree. Even though I am not affiliated ...

 
Letters to the Editor: Dec. 19, 2025

Weak and damaged A malignant narcissist is defined as an individual with a personality disorder that includes these characteristics: profound lack of insight, extreme grandiosity, lack of empathy, sadism, ...

News & Features

 
Stopping By: Green advocate works to 'reframe, retrain'

Living a green lifestyle is not difficult, said Brynn Moir, who cofounded Zero Waste’s Plastic Project with Jeri White. “It’s just different.” Her goal is to “reframe ...

Neyssa Hays files for county commission

She will challenge Jason Fields for Position 3 seat now held by Mary Starrett

Council debates response to immigration enforcement

McMinnville City Council’s proposed steps to address immigration enforcement fell short of expectations for the sometimes raucous crowd that filled Kent Taylor Civic Hall on Tuesday. After ...

Students call on city leaders to act

The youth turned out at Tuesday’s City Council meeting. Five McMinnville High School students addressed the dais during public comment asking for a state of emergency and a sixth submitted ...

Alpine project gets back on track

  McMinnville City Council unanimously approved a new “zone” for the planned McMinnville Landing and agreed to enter negotiations with development team Guardian for the redevelopment ...

Continued declines expected in McMinnville school enrollment

Enrollment is declining not just in the McMinnville School District, but statewide, a representative of the firm Flo Analytics told McMinnville School Board members Monday night. The planning ...

 
Program tackles plastics problem

Zero Waste’s Plastic Project is promoting reusable dinnerware and food containers as a way of eliminating single-use plastics, In 2023, it started a program encouraging local restaurants ...

Commissioners approve Grange Estate permit

The Yamhill County Board of Commissioners unanimously approved a home occupation permit for a controversial 10-room bed and breakfast in Dundee Thursday, but indicated changes are coming to the ...

 
Lafayette council approves strategic plan

The Lafayette City Council approved the city’s strategic plan, which notes that wastewater system capacity is top priority. At the Jan. 8 Lafayette City Council meeting, City Administrator ...

Water loss improves; too soon to 'toot our own horn'

Preliminary reports show the city of Lafayette has improved on its water loss and is sitting around 12%, compared to 49% water loss in 2017. In 2022, Lafayette experienced a 39% water loss, leading ...

Aldeguer trial opens Monday

A late discovery of DNA evidence pushed the trial of Anthony “Tony” Gray Aldeguer, 67, from November 2025 to Monday, Jan. 20. Aldeguer faces 27 charges involving rape, assault, kidnapping, ...

Dayton man killed in Tuesday morning crash

A Dayton man died Tuesday morning, Jan. 13, in a two-vehicle wreck on Highway 154 near milepost 6, south of Dayton. According to Oregon State Police, Marcel Israel Benavides, 35, was driving south in ...

Mac school board makes superintendent contract official

McMinnville School Board finalized its contract Monday night with the new superintendent, Kourtney Ferrua, who has been serving as interim leader since July 1. Ferrua will be paid a $243,500 annual salary ...

Oily rags cause kitchen fire at county jail

The Yamhill County Correctional Facility had a kitchen fire on Thursday, Jan. 8, around 1:25 p.m. No one was injured. The “fire was 100% accidental from routine kitchen operations,” ...

Arrests & Citations: Jan. 16, 2026

Yamhill County Sheriff’s Office Troy Allen Ingram, 62, Willamina, Jan. 8, failure to appear; booked into the Yamhill County Jail on $7,500 bail. Zachary Michael Spittles, 34, Grand Ronde, Jan. ...

Grange hall offers dancing

McMinnville Grange 31, 1700 S.W. Old Sheridan Road, is offering dancing and a potluck from 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. on Fridays and from 1 to 4 p.m. on Sundays. The dances are family friendly, according ...

Reservations due Saturday for music fundraiser

Reservations are required by Saturday, Jan. 17, for “Swingin’ On a Star,” the annual fundraiser for McMinnville school music programs that features student bands, choirs, soloists and ...

Sheridan cultural fair features art, more

The 2026 Community Cultural Fair will feature art, music, food, informational displays and a quilt raffle on Saturday, Jan. 24, at The Bridge Learning Community, 430 S.W. Monroe St., Sheridan. The ...

Melt Down coming to a grill near you

The Melt Down, Yamhill County’s annual cheese-focused fundraiser, will start with a 10th-anniversary open house on Saturday, Jan. 31, at Golden Valley Brew Pub, McMinnville. After that, 53 restaurants ...

Highway 18 at Lafayette Highway reopen after four-hour crash-related closure

Highway 18 at the Lafayette Highway, northeast of the McMinnville Airport, reopened about 1 p.m. after being closed because of a crash that happened before 9 a.m. today.  The Oregon Department of ...

Sports

 
3A/2A Boys Basketball: Warriors win in stunning fashion, hold Bulldogs scoreless in first quarter

Any coach will say that scoring comes in waves, but something was in the water Monday night in Amity and it started a scoring tsunami for the No. 20-ranked Warriors (8-6, 4-2). The night started innocently ...

 
3A/2A Girls Basketball: Warriors trample Bulldogs in first meeting of year

For the second time this season, the No. 2-ranked Amity Warriors (11-3, 6-0) scored just one point in the fourth quarter. That said, it came with a much different result after their first time doing so ...

 
Unselfish play lifts Linfield over Willamette

Those who braved heavy fog to Ted Wilson Gymnasium on Tuesday night were treated to a basketball nightcap that produced a few reasons as to why Linfield’s mens basketball team (4-8, 2-2) may be on ...

 
‘Cats spring to life, stifle Willamette in fourth quarter for seventh straight win

When Linfield’s womens basketball team (11-2, 4-0) needs to, they secure a few things on defense to ensure a game doesn’t slip away: stops, stops and more stops. On Tuesday evening, while ...

Linfield softball hosting two January camps

Linfield University is hosting two All-Skills Softball Clinics on Jan. 18 and Jan. 24 at Ad and Joan Rutschman Fieldhouse on the corner of Linfield Avenue and Davis Street. Each clinic will stress ...

Professional softball coming to Oregon

The Athletes Unlimited Softball League (AUSL), a women’s professional softball league that was founded and began play in 2024, announced on Tuesday that one of its new teams will call Oregon home ...

Mac Girls Basketball: Grizzlies hold Apollos scoreless in second half, win 61-18

McMinnville’s girls varsity basketball team (4-7) handled business on Monday afternoon, toppling No. 37 Sunset (5-9) 61-18 without allowing a point in the second half. “We didn’t have ...

 
Upon Further Review: The ball I thought I knew

With a new year upon us, I become increasingly self-aware of everything I do not know. And as I believe I’ve mentioned before, that’s the beautiful thing about aging. Fresh beginnings are ...

 
Linfield outwits Whitman, surrenders to Whitworth at home

Emotions ran wild over the weekend as Linfield mens basketball team (3-8, 1-2) split a pair of Northwest Conference matchups at home to Whitman College (6-7, 1-3) and Whitworth University (10-3, 4-0). The ...

 
Wildcats topple Pirates, conquer Blues

What makes the Wildcats roll is their connection to one another. Under head coach Casey Bunn-Wilson, Linfield’s womens basketball team (10-2, 2-0) has turned into a formidable foe in the Northwest ...

 
Busy weekend of wrestling produces 10 Yamhill County champions

Yamhill County was a wrestler’s paradise on Saturday, Jan. 10. Over 20 Oregon schools competed on the mat at either the Bob Bishop Invitational in Willamina or the Mike Henry Memorial duals in Dayton. Boys ...

Bird named to CSC Hall of Fame class of 2026

Linfield University’s Athletics Marketing and Events Coordinator, Kelly Bird, will join the College Sports Communicators Hall of Fame class of 2026 and be inducted on Monday, June 8, in ceremonies ...

Mac swimmers run roughshod over Liberty

In their final dual meet against Liberty High School before the Falcons transition to 5A, the Grizzlies’ swim teams dominated at the Shute Park Aquatic & Recreation Center in Hillsboro, ...

3A/2A Girls Basketball: Warriors keep winning, Tigers rebound

Jan. 9 Amity 56 Santiam Christian 29 Yamhill County’s highest-ranked basketball team, the Class 3A No. 2 Warriors (10-2, 4-0), maintained its momentum with a 56-29 win at No. 27 Santiam Christian ...

3A/2A Boys Basketball: Pirates, Tigers victorious with double-digit dousings

Jan. 9 Amity 47 Santiam Christian 74 No. 20-ranked Amity (6-6, 2-2) fell back to even on the season on Friday as they were on the wrong side of a road palindrome, 74-47. Amity led No. 9 Santiam Christian ...

Mac Basketball: Boys, girls fall short in battles with top-15 foes

McMinnville’s No. 35-ranked boys varsity basketball team (5-6) proved a difficult out in a 69-63 loss to No. 13 Sunset (10-2) on Friday in Hillsboro. The Grizzlies trailed 23-14 after one ...

Mac Boys Basketball: Grizzlies ride first-quarter wave to even season record in Aloha

A 29-5 first quarter propelled the No. 36-ranked Grizzlies (5-5) to their second-largest margin of victory this season as they toppled No. 49 Metro League foe Aloha (0-10), 69-45, on the road. Sophomore ...

 
Mac Girls Basketball: Grizzlies steal Blues' rhythm in first home victory

The Grizzlies’ record (3-6) is not indicative of their true potential. Head Coach Sean Coste has seen nearly everything in his time on the sidelines, but an 0-6 start to the season was a first in ...

 
Linfield has eight placers, Willamina alumni return at Mat Cat Open

Grapplers from all walks of life competed in the Mat Cat Open on Sunday, Jan. 4, inside Ted Wilson Gymnasium, with 35 teams taking the mat. The host Wildcats had eight combined placers across men’s ...

 
3A/2A Girls Basketball: Pirates feast from range in win over Bulldogs

The basket seemed five feet wide for the No. 21-ranked Dayton Pirates (9-3, 3-1) Wednesday night as they outshot No. 38 Willamina (1-8, 0-2) en route to a 53-26 victory. Dayton slowed their pace over ...

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