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 ...
