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 ...
Lafayette looking to Mac for water
LAFAYETTE — McMinnville Water & Light has reached a tentative agreement to initiate water service to the city of Lafayette, subject to development of an estimated $2.5 million pump station and ...
Children send best wishes to Las Vegas concertgoer
LAFAYETTE — Preschoolers at Wascher Elementary studied friendship during September, their first-ever month of school. This week, they’ve had a chance to put what they’d learned into practice. They’ve ...
Water restrictions lifted
The cities of Dayton and Lafayette have lifted summer water restrictions with the onset of cooler, wetter weather. Dayton Mayor Scott Pingel said in a letter to residents, “With compliance from ...
Training offered in early childhood ed
Kindergarten teachers, day-care providers and other people who care for young children can get additional training through programs being launched in Sheridan and Lafayette. Officials at the Yamhill Community ...
Lafayette man dies in crash
SHERWOOD - A Lafayette man was killed Sunday night in a two-vehicle head-on crash on Southwest Roy Rogers Road, south of Bull Mountain road, in rural Sherwood. The Washington County Sheriff's ...
Stopping By: Brothers in uniform
Not long after his 2012 graduation from McMinnville High School, where he studied physics and chemistry at the Engineering and Aerospace Sciences Academy, Ben Dority tried to enlist in the Navy. It ...
