Law enforcement decision stalls again in Amity
AMITY - A decision related to whether the Amity City Council wants to retain its own police department or contract with the Yamhill County Sheriff's Office stalled again Wednesday night. Chris Bolek resigned ...
Pursuit endangers Amity students; Dallas man arrested
AMITY — A Dallas resident, wanted by Arkansas authorities, who sped away from Amity Police Chief Chris Bolek, endangered the lives of Amity Elementary School students before being taken into custody ...
Amity police chief search stalls
AMITY — City Councilor Max Walker reminded his colleagues at Wednesday night’s meeting that Police Chief Chris Bolek has “graciously committed” to leading the department through ...
Amity board approves transportation contract
AMITY — The Amity School Board approved a special education transportation contract with First Student at its Wednesday night meeting last week. This was the board’s 2018-19 organizational ...
Amity man arrested for alleged assault on father
AMITY — The wife of an Amity man used a fire extinguisher on her son while he was allegedly beating his father with a metal tube early Sunday morning. Alex Ernest Tombleson, 28, was arraigned Monday ...
Amity approves public safety fee
AMITY — City Councilor Joshua Simonson, who chairs the Finance Committee, announced at Wednesday night’s meeting it’s fiscally irresponsible for the city to operate its own police department. “Is ...
National Night Out events planned
When National Night Out started in 1984, organizers asked people to turn on their porch lights and use the event as a springboard for getting to know their neighbors and local police officers. Not only ...
Exhaustive investigation followed officer-involved shooting
The Yamhill County Major Crime Response Team gathered on the Amity Elementary School grounds shortly after 27-year-old Kelly Sutton Jr. died Saturday, July 7, as the result of an officer-involved shooting ...
Two deputies cleared in officer-involved shooting
Kelly Sutton Jr. warned Yamhill County Sheriff’s Office deputy Stephanie Sulak to “stay away” from him or he would kill her partner, YCSO Sgt. Sam Elliott. During the course of an intense ...
DA Berry rules Amity officer-involved shooting was justified
NEWBERG - Yamhill County Sheriff's Office Sgt. Sam Elliott and deputy Stephanie Sulak were justified in shooting Kelly Sutton Jr. six times, resulting in the death of the 27-year-old Amity resident on ...
DA will discuss Amity officer-involved shooting
The Yamhill County District Attorney’s Office will release information at 10:45 a.m. Friday related to the Saturday, July 7, officer-involved shooting in Amity. Two sheriff's office deputies were ...
Amity council approves public safety fee
AMITY — The Amity City Council passed an ordinance Tuesday night triggering a public safety fee beginning Thursday, Aug. 2. Ordinance 656 underwent a second reading and was approved on a 4-0 vote. There ...
