Rent crisis lands Mac on state watch list

Housing prices in McMinnville continue to escalate, but high costs for renters have landed the city on a statewide watch list of “severely rent burdened” areas. 2018’s HB 4006 uses census ...

Kirby Neumann-Rea/News-Register##Dogs cavort in Joe Dancer Park, where some residents have complained of problems with dogs allowed to run off-leash.

Residents raise concerns over off-leash dogs

A group of 43 McMinnville residents submitted comment to the city council Tuesday over safety concerns with unleashed dogs in city parks. Resident Erin Lawler addressed the dais, saying she has increasing ...

McMinnville School Board to review book challenge policy in meeting

Following a challenge asking that seven books be removed from the McMinnville High School library, the school board is reviewing the process that was used to recommend the titles be left in place. The ...

Tight FEMA deadline on floodplains, transitional housing discussed at session

The city of McMinnville may have to further restrict development in floodplain areas to meet federal requirements related to the Endangered Species Act. City Council held a work session Tuesday to discuss ...

Rusty Rae/News-Register##Christa Brandenburg of McMinnville shows one of her images, which include sketches and studies in addition to oil paintings. For the Art Harvest Studio Tour, she is showing and demonstrating her work at the Rose of Third Street, 516 N.E. Third. The tour continues today through Sunday. Buttons are $10 to visit any of 63 artists on the tour.

Stopping By: Art Harvest participant keeps finding new painting ideas and materials

Painter Christa Brandenburg starts each morning with a cup of coffee, a sketchbook and a pen. “I do my morning drawings after the coffee and before breakfast,” said Brandenburg, whose sketches ...

Sheridan library reopens after meth found

The Sheridan Public Library is open under regular schedule again after a nearly weeklong emergency closure following discovery of drugs inside a book. Initially, one packet of what was determined to be ...

Rachel Thompson/News-Register##Amity High School CTE teacher John Stearns high-fives some of his students, who formed a gauntlet to congratulate him on being one of 25 trades teachers in the nation to win $50,000 — $35,000 for their schools and $15,000 for themselves. Stearns was completely surprised by the announcement.

Teacher with reach: Amity’s Stearns presented $50,000 prize for career education, tech guidance

Amity High School students lined up Tuesday to greet Career-Technical Education teacher John Stearns with a little of the caring he’s been showing to them over the years. They applauded ...

K9 unit tracks down eluder, alleged car thief

A man with an arrest record in many states was arrested last weekend after he fled the scene of a routine traffic stop, from what officers learned was a stolen vehicle. Yamhill County Sheriff’s ...

Rachel Thompson/News-Register##“Crown of Yamhill County” winner Elise Yarnell Hollamon of Newberg croons “Part of Your World.” She was accompanied by bubbles, which left a film on the floor. Moments later, Tim Love knelt with a towel and wiped up the remnants before fellow contestant Mauricio Soto did his Latin dance number.

Holloman wins first Crown of Yamhill County honor

Elise Yarnell Hollamon of Newberg adopted an aquatic persona in winning the first Crown of Yamhill County contest on Friday, Oct. 4. The fundraiser for Henderson House was part of Domestic Violence Awareness ...

Submitted photo## Students created a tribute wall Thursday in honor of Mikalynn Jayde Morris on the side of the Young Life House on 14th and Ford streets near the high school.

District offers support after student’s suicide

McMinnville School District students and staff, along with community members, are reeling from the death by suicide of a female sophomore who died Wednesday in her home. Mikalynn Jayde Morris was a sophomore ...

Dayton manager finalists to meet community

Dayton residents can meet the three city manager finalists at a reception from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 15, in the Palmer Creek Lodge Community Center, 606 Fourth St. City council members discussed ...

Chemeketa seeks $140M bond measure

Chemeketa Community College, which serves Yamhill County in addition to Marion and Polk counties, is seeking a $140 million bond measure to improve its career technical education center, health and wellness ...

##A still from the movie “The General,” in which Johnny Grey (Buster Keaton) climbs onto the cowcatcher on the front of his speeding locomotive to foil an attempt by bandits to rob his train.

Offbeat Oregon: The summer Buster Keaton made Cottage Grove a mini-Hollywood

If a Cottage Grove logger had been bonked on the head in January 1926, and woke up six months later, he would have scarcely recognized his home town. There was a whole new Main Street built way out east ...

Arrests & Citations: Oct. 11, 2024

Yamhill County Sheriff’s Office Travis Douglas Mottram, 36, Salem, Oct. 7, third-degree theft, harassment; booked into the Yamhill County Jail without bail. Laura Francis Benedict, 32, Salem, Oct. ...

Council discusses parks bond details, path forward

If the city of McMinnville proceeds with a municipal bond proposal for facility and park upgrades, residents in May will vote on a $152.5 million 20-year bond that will cost the average homeowner approximately ...

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