The best thing about Duniway Middle School’s new gardening class is getting to plant vegetables, watch them grow and getting to eat them, eighth-grader Jayden Vargas said. He likes the classroom ...
News & Features
Transit director raises funding, service concerns
Big conversations are going to be needed on fares, routes and a provider contract for Yamhill County Transit in the coming year, Director Cynthia Thompson told county leadership last week. The department ...
Students grow vegetables, and skills, in Duniway garden
The best thing about Duniway Middle School’s new gardening class is getting to plant vegetables, watch them grow and getting to eat them, eighth-grader Jayden Vargas said. He likes the classroom ...
Chemeketa makes case for bond measure
Chemeketa Community College leadership has made the rounds in an effort to promote its proposed $140 million bond issue on the May 20 ballot, addressing McMinnville City Council and the Yamhill Board of ...
Stopping By: Bard Influence
Mac’s state Shakespeare champion uses comic, musical talents to explore the new language of iambic pentameter
‘Setting the table’ for Innovation Campus
McMinnville residents gave feedback on plans for a 200-acre employment and retail development on Highway 18 last weekend during a community forum hosted by the city. Plans for an Innovation Campus and ...
New CEO, Dewane Pace, impressed with culture, offerings at Willamette Valley Medical Center
Willamette Valley Medical Center’s new CEO, Dewane Pace, has been in the medical field in Florida and Colorado. Now he’s completed his migration across the country, and is happy to be living ...
Dayton asks Lafayette for access to water transition line
The Lafayette City Council listened at its March 13 meeting as Dayton officials pitched a plan for increased water cooperation. Dayton has asked for temporary connection of Lafayette’s Ash Road transition ...
'Outraged' Salinas holds Mac town hall
Rep. Andrea Salinas had harsh criticism for President Donald Trump and Democrat leadership in the Senate at a town hall Tuesday in McMinnville “I’m outraged. I’m really outraged at the ...
Secretary of State Tobias Read talks audits, ‘motor voter’ refinements
Oregon Secretary of State Tobias Read stopped in Yamhill County on March 15 to meet with Yamhill County Clerk Keri Hinton. Read, sworn into office on Jan. 7, plans to meet with every county clerk this ...
Lafayette opts to do wastewater project to reduce DEQ penalties
The Lafayette City Council on March 13 unanimously approved submitting a supplemental environment project and paying 50% of penalties from the Department of Environmental Quality. In December 2022, during ...
County board opts not to support Chemeketa bond
The Yamhill County Board of Commissioners decided not to endorse the upcoming $140 million Chemeketa Community College bond measure Thursday, voting unanimously against it.
In Yamhill, new community library is Cleary a favorite
Children’s author Beverly Cleary and her mom would have been proud to see Yamhill residents checking out the town’s new community library during an open house preview Saturday. Cleary was ...
Community closet stocks transgender supplies
A new Transgender Community Closet offers hard-to-find supplies needed by people who are transitioning or who have transitioned. Ames Bierly of the McMinnville Trans Network set up the closet and a free ...
Solid Foundations tour raises funds for CASA
Court-Appointed Special Advocates Program is hosting a fundraiser called the Solid Foundations Tour to raise funds that will help children have a “solid foundation” in life. The event on Saturday, ...
Dayton culinary team third in state
Dayton’s first-ever ProStart culinary team took third place, competing against more seasoned schools, Monday in the statewide cooking competition. Ivan Duarte, Sydney Hall, Grace Goularte ...
CASA learns it will lose $1.7 million in federal funding
CASA programs in Oregon, Yamhill County’s included, will face difficult decisions due to a loss of $1.7 million in federal funding. In the continuing resolution budget passed by Congress on Friday, ...
Sheridan votes to utilize Jensen for city manager search
The Sheridan City Council unanimously decided March 17 on a recruiting firm for its search for a new city manager. A contract for $27,000 will be issued to Jensen Strategies, which also conducted the ...
Quirk: ‘Visible spectrums,’ be they fleeting or ageless rainbows, add vivid local color
Talk of rainbows and pots of gold made the rounds this week. While no such discoveries were reported, some reliable rainbow sightings can be documented. It turns out that around McMinnville, a trove of ...
Arrests & Citations: March 21, 2025
Yamhill County Sheriff’s Office Keith Edwin Becker, 37, Amity, March 17, unauthorized use of a vehicle/two counts, possession of stolen vehicle/two counts, unlawful possession of methamphetamine, ...
Open primary bill would enfranchise Oregon’s largest group of voters
The Oregon House Rules Committee will hold a hearing March 19 on the latest effort to enfranchise the largest single group of voters in the state: those unaffiliated with any party.
Sports
Mac High Sports Roundup: Grizzly bats nab blowouts in season openers
McMinnville baseball blew out non-league 6A Reynolds in the season opener, jumping out a 9-0 lead early on Tuesday. The game was shortened to five innings as the Grizzlies led 19-2, picking up their first ...
Valley Panthers Rugby opens 2-2 at preseason jamboree
The Valley Panthers Rugby club started the spring 15s preseason with a bang, defeating the Chinook Lady Pack from Clark County, Washington, 39-14 in the season opener. 33 Panthers turned out for spring ...
Greene nabs 175 middle school championship for Grizz Dawgs
Eighth grader Patton Greene of Duniway Middle School won the 175-pound middle school wrestling state championship for the Grizz Dawgs middle school wrestling team on Saturday, March 15 at West Albany High ...
Spartan boys win at Dayton PacWest Ice Breaker
Sheridan senior Jayden O’Reilly won three events, leading the Spartan boys track and field team to victory at 3A PacWest Icebreaker meet on Monday at Dayton. The Spartan boys won six events at the ...
YC’s Smith takes third at Regionals wrestling tournament
Yamhill-Carlton eighth grade wrestler Eliana “Elli” Smith (220) qualified for the middle school state championship tournament in her first year of wrestling and gained a love for the sport. Smith ...
Grizzlies’ run ends at Chiles Center after two games
After a tough 60-29 quarterfinal loss to Clackamas Wednesday afternoon, McMinnville senior Macie Arzner said she expected a different Grizzly team to show up Thursday morning for its consolation bracket ...
Family, community ties run deep for 2025 state championship Amity squad
Amity girls basketball final huddle of the season, wasn’t on the Marshfield High School court, the home of the 3A state basketball championship game. The huddle was in an intimate setting, downstairs ...
Amity players, coaches reflect on the title game victory over Banks, and their 30-0 season
Sixth time’s the charm, the Warriors claimed the 3A state championship for the first time in school history by two-points against the Banks Braves on Saturday in Coos Bay. Coach Jed McMullen said ...
Grizzlies book trip to Chiles Center
The Forest Grove Vikings’ game plan was clear from the opening tip of Friday night’s second-round girls playoff game in the McMinnville gymnasium: clog the paint, hound Macie Arzner with two ...
Undefeated Warriors win state championship
The 3A state championship game came down just one shot with 4.7 seconds on the clock and the undefeated Warriors made school history, nabbing the title.
19-win season sets new standard for YC girls basketball
The Yamhill-Carlton girls couldn’t generate enough offense to earn a trip to Coos Bay. The Tigers lost Feb. 28 on the road at Coquille in the second round of the playoffs, 48-26. But after the game, ...
Sometimes friendship circles start on the oval
The term “town and gown” — that happy link between community and academia – is a cultural concept that can take human form. I saw it up close, and somewhat serendipitously, at ...
Trammell takes fifth for Sheridan
Sheridan’s senior heavy-weight Joseph Trammell went into a tiebreaker against the No. 1 seed Kiason Smith of Warrenton in the semifinals of the 3A State Tournament at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum ...
Three Y-C juniors claims sixth at state
Yamhill-Carlton juniors Kalob Dallas (126), Tyler Pond (175) and Gavin Smith (285) finished in sixth at the 3A State Championship on Feb. 28 at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Portland. The ...
Sauceda takes third at state, makes Pirate girls history
Junior second-year wrestler Aliyah Sauceda (170, 38-4) has made Dayton High School history as the first girl to place at the state championship, held Feb. 28 at Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Portland. Last ...
Huston nabs runner-up, Bulldogs claim fifth at state
Senior Devin Huston (150) took second and the Willamina boys took fifth at the 3A State tournament on Feb. 28 at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Portland. Last season, Huston finished third and has ...
Campos claims sixth for Grizzlies at 132
Nelson Campos (132, 35-17) nabbed the No. 6 seed for the 6A Wrestling State Championship and proved the seeding correct, claiming sixth on Saturday at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Portland. Campos ...
Willamina light-weight Brewer reclaims state championship
The Bulldog known as Zoe Brewer attacked the bracket, pinning three opponents in the first period in early rounds before facing a familiar foe. The 105-pound 4A/3A/2A/1A girls state championship match ...
Mac boys program battle-tested after Coil's first year
The McMinnville boys basketball season concluded with plenty of “what-ifs.” The Grizzlies finished the season 8-16, with nine of the losses by five points or less; and concluded league play ...
