City plans hard look at budget shortfall
McMinnville City Council has a busy night planned Tuesday, with a work session on pressing budget issues and a regular meeting highlighted by a long-term housing strategy discussion. Prior to ...
Sheriff warns of warrant and jury duty scam
Did you receive a call requesting funding to cancel a warrant out for your arrest? You might have been a victim of a scam call. Yamhill County Sheriff Sam Elliott warns residents of a frequent scam call ...
Lafayette ‘If I Were Mayor Contest’ closes March 31
The city of Lafayette is participating in the “If I Were Mayor Contest” by the Oregon Mayors Association for the third year in a row and calls for local students to participate by March 31. Each ...
Along the Street: Melt Down brings in nearly $25,000 for YCAP food bank
Area residents chowed down on 12,185 Melt Down specials, most of them grilled cheese sandwiches, during the annual fundraiser in February. All told, the fundraiser brought in $24,788 in 28 days for the ...
Schools, fire board candidates file for May 20 election
Several contested races are shaping up in the May 20 election for school and fire board positions around Yamhill County. Voters also will decide on two bond measures, one for $6 million for Sheridan School ...
Third Street’s Good Food restaurant opens in April, with gluten-free, gut-friendly
When Samm Johnson and her husband, Rick, decided to call their new eatery Good Food, they were thinking about more than the tastiness of their salads, soups and other offerings. They also were thinking ...
Zone changed approved for Stratus Avenue apartments
A twice-delayed zoning change for a planned apartment complex on Stratus Avenue was approved unanimously by the McMinnville Planning Commission last week, to the chagrin of neighboring businesses and residents. Wisconsin-based ...
Ideas germinate at new Sprout Summit
Farmers, owners of environmental and sustainable-focused companies and members of other local organizations gathered Thursday to discuss the future of the environment and the economy. Problems ...
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 ...
Arrests and Citations: March 25, 2025
Yamhill County Sheriff’s Office Joshua David Womack, 38, Yamhill, March 20, probation violation; booked into the Yamhill County Jail without bail. Austin Dean Standish, 33, McMinnville, March 20, ...
‘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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
