History buffs mark Oregon's birthday
LAFAYETTE — History enthusiasts wished Oregon “Happy Birthday” slightly early Saturday, four days before the anniversary of statehood. Oregon was admitted to the Union on Feb. 14, 1859, ...
Oregon birthday celebration Saturday
LAFAYETTE — The Yamhill County Historical Society will host a birthday party for Oregon on Saturday, Feb. 10. The public event will run from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the history museum at 605 Market ...
School staff practices for crisis
LAFAYETTE — No crisis occurred Friday at Wascher Elementary School. But the school’s staff, secretaries from across the McMinnville School District, law enforcement officers and EMTs acted ...
Pursuit suspect jailed anew
LAFAYETTE — After undergoing booking at the Washington County Jail in Hillsboro, the Lafayette man who led police on a high-speed pursuit over the Newberg-Dundee Bypass on New Year’s Eve, before ...
Lafayette man cited in New Year's Eve chase
A Lafayette man faces charges in connection with a high-speed New Year’s Eve pursuit that led officers northbound over the then-closed Newberg-Dundee Bypass. Washington County sheriff’s deputies ...
SMART coordinator named top volunteer
LAFAYETTE — JoAnne Myers was reading to a couple of Wascher Elementary School kindergartners when a line of adults streamed into the room. Many of the Start Making a Reader Today volunteers and ...
Santa with stamina
One of Santa’s helpers felt shaky when he climbed onto a high perch a few years ago. “I was unstable. It was a little on the scary side,” said Darrell Flood of Lafayette, who represents ...
Studying through space
LAFAYETTE — Wascher Elementary School students studied the solar system, then invited other classes to tour their museum of space before Christmas. As other students visited, the third-graders explained ...
Students serve at senior center
Fourth-grader Joel Del Valle approached a man having lunch at Wortman Café, the soup-and-salad bar in the McMinnville Senior Center. “How are you?” the Wascher School student asked. ...
Head-on crash reported on Highway 99W north of Lafayette
LAFAYETTE - Law enforcement and medical personnel responded about 8:30 a.m. Tuesday to a reported two-vehicle head-on crash north of Lafayette on Highway 99W. The crash involved a vehicle and tractor-trailer ...
Council mulls neighborhood meetings, SDCs
The McMinnville City Council may take action on two proposals at a meeting set for 7 p.m. Tuesday — one requiring neighborhood meetings as a condition of new vacation rental approvals and another ...
Lafayette voters reject bond issue
LAFAYETTE — Voters in Lafayette have rejected a $7.95 million bond issue aimed at funding replacement of the complex housing the city’s fire station and city hall. The final, unofficial count ...
High-speed chase ends in crash
A motorist crashed his car on Westside Road Thursday morning, after allegedly leading a Yamhill County sheriff’s deputy on a high-speed chase. When deputy Sean Sato caught up with Jody Christopher ...
Lafayette residents reject bond issue
LAFAYETTE - Voters rejected a $7.95 million bond issue Tuesday. It was designed to fund replacement of the city’s combined fire station and city hall. The unofficial count was 511 no votes, or 58.9 ...
Lafayette seeks bond measure for fire station
LAFAYETTE -- The city of Lafayette is asking residents to approve a bond measure to build a new fire station and city hall, replacing the cramped quarters currently in use. Earlier this year, the city ...
