Rachel Thompson/News-Register##Standing beside a shelf full of pink impatiens, horticulture student Michael Wilson checks on a lily plant students grew for the Garden Shed. Dayton High’s horticulture career pathway students and FFA members worked on the plant sale.

Dayton students’ spring plant sale combines science, business and art

Dayton High School students planted and germinated seeds, tended tiny seedlings and repotted them in a variety of ways for their annual “Garden Shed” spring sale. After assisting customers ...

News-Register file photo/Emily Bonsant##Sheridan couple Bradley and Madonna Blackwell are suing the city of Sheridan for property damage connected to the Dec. 19, 2025, break in the city water main. The Blackwells live just below the water treatment plant and city water towers.

Homeowners sue Sheridan over 2025 landslide

The city of Sheridan is being sued by residents Bradley and Madonna Blackwell for $827,067 alleging property damage associated with an August 2025 runoff and December 2025 landslide and flood at the water ...

Dayton passes budget, cuts library position

The Dayton Library will experience more closures starting July 1, following the city budget committee’s decision Monday to eliminate the position of library assistant Treva Gentry. “We believe ...

Kirby Neumann-Rea/News-Register##Skyline Road yellow-trimmed shack, and moss antimacassar across the back.

Quirk of the Week: ‘No two shelters are the same’

Quirk has focused in the past on small roadside shelters including, recently, the tall one-person shelter on Hillside Drive near Newberg. Since then, shack examples have emerged in explorations in other ...

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Along the Street: Mac farmers market opens Thursday

The McMinnville Farmers Market will open Thursday, May 21, with early season produce such as leafy greens, plant starts and other items like cheese, bread and mushrooms. The market, located on Cowls Street ...

Rachel Thompson/News-Register##U.S. Rep. Andrea Salinas talks with Nathan Wildfire, Missing Middle Housing Fund co-founder and CEO, during a site tour of the future workforce housing development in Newberg called HIVE.

Newberg workforce housing development creates a buzz

Local businesses and organizations believe innovation will solve the housing crisis in Oregon. Housing Innovation Village Experience, or HIVE, is a 10-cottage housing project underway in Newberg. The ...

Rusty Rae/News-Register file photo##In this picture from 2023, Archer Carroll, right, flattens and bends a piece of copper pipe to make a bracelet in summer school. With him is Carter Lewis; both were sixth graders at Patton Middle School participating in the McMinnville summer school program.

Mac to offer full summer school thanks to late grant

For the first time in several years, McMinnville School District will be able to offer a full summer school program for students entering grades K through 8, according to Lauren Berg, director of curriculum, ...

Drazan wins Republican primary for governor, teeing up rematch with Kotek

AURORA – Oregonians voting in the 2026 governor’s race will decide between two familiar faces: State Sen. Christine Drazan and Democratic incumbent Gov. Tina Kotek.  The Republican state ...

Rachel Thompson/News-Register##Members of The Saliens wave to spectators from their ocean-themed float while traveling east on Third Street past the Mack Theater during the UFO Festival parade on Saturday, May 17. The group won the parade’s Best Float award as thousands gathered downtown for the annual festival celebrating McMinnville’s famous 1950 UFO sighting.

Photo Gallery: What on earth

Truth is stranger than science fiction at this year’s UFO Festival

News-Register file photo/Racheal Winter##Among the city maintenance projects planned for this year is $28,000 in repairs to the community center ramp and sidewalks.

Facility maintenance budget could be reduced to pay for lifeguards

McMinnville planning and public works departments were able to add roles without greatly affecting the city’s general fund through staff restructuring, but planned facility maintenance totaling $1 million may be pared back as budget meetings conclude this week.

 

 

Last look before election at what campaigns raised

Four candidates vying for two Yamhill County Board of Commissioners positions have raised more than $200,000 combined in cash and in-kind campaign contributions, while a local political action committee ...

Court Records: May 20, 2026

CIVIL FILINGS Bank Of America, N.A. vs. Anthony M. Eng, Newberg: Granted $14,408.84 judgment. Capital One, N.A. vs. Riley W. Brown: Granted $5,770.24 judgment. Bank Of America, N.A. vs. Jerome R. Paul: ...

Awards recognize those who’ve made a difference

“McMinnville offers opportunities for all residents to be involved and make a positive and significant difference,” said Tom Tankersley, the 2014 Man of the Year, at this year’s Distinguished ...

Mac Police Chief: Violence ‘unacceptable’

“It is not unusual to have a large group at a fight,” McMinnville Police Chief Cord Wood said, remembering fights he’d seen in high school. “What is unusual is to have so many involved ...

Rachel Thompson/News-Register##Candace Morgan and Jake Wilson stand in front of the Bellevue Schoolhouse west of McMinnville. The couple purchased the vacant 1917 building earlier this year with plans to restore it into an event center and community gathering space.

Stopping By: Saving a schoolhouse

After driving by the 1917 Bellevue Schoolhouse for “years and years” on their way from Tigard to the beach, Jake Wilson and Candace Morgan learned it was for sale. They had just returned from ...

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