Letters to the Editor: June 23, 2023
Victory for tribes Congratulations to Native Americans are in order. SCOTUS recently heard a case involving a non-native Texas couple who challenged the law because they wanted to adopt a native child. ...
Letters to the Editor: June 16, 2023
Hanging in the wind After reading Friday’s paper, I kept thinking about that sculpture Kirby Neumann-Rea mentioned in last week’s column. I am newish to town, having moved here last August. ...
Letters to the Editor: June 9, 2023
Time to reconnect I remember reading announcements regarding 55th high school reunions and thinking, “Those people are still with us?” Well, this summer, our McMinnville Class of 1968 will ...
Letters to the Editor: June 2, 2023
Loss and gain I have good news for McMinnville and Yamhill County. McMinnville needs to plug certain holes in its budget. Well, help may be on the way. The city may get a financial boost in the near ...
Letters to the Editor: May 19, 2023
Proud of Georges Your front page article on the George family political donations, which came out just four days before the election, was written up like a major expose. I read the article twice, but ...
Letters to the Editor: May 12, 2023
We deserve better As a professional firefighter, and a citizen raising his family in McMinnville, I urge you to vote yes on Measures 36-226 and 36-227, allowing the formation of a new fire district. I ...
Letters to the Editor: May 5, 2023
Push back So the MAGA crowd is coming for the McMinnville School District, hoping no one will notice until the deed is done. They want to separate our children from their history and their own identities, ...
Letters to the Editor: April 28, 2023
Don’t invite chaos Last September, Newberg students were stranded for hours waiting for school buses, picked up by buses so crowded they had to sit on the floor, and plagued by last-minute route ...
Letters to the Editor: April 21, 2023
Safety first We deserve to have a safe and reliable fire service. We deserve assurance that an ambulance or a fire engine will be immediately available to respond when we call 9-1-1. Why should our paramedics ...
Letters to the Editor: April 14, 2023
Workable solution I am excited about the opportunity to vote for the new special fire district in May. I moved to McMinnville with my young family six years ago. It was easy to fall in love with the ...
Letters to the Editor: April 7, 2023
A mission unheeded After reading about the county parks board in Tuesday’s News-Register (“Members of county parks board speak out”), it seems to me that the members of our county board ...
Letters to the Editor: March 31, 2023
Election intimidation Calling names, filing workplace complaints and promoting conspiracies has become commonplace in Yamhill County. A blogger who promotes division and extremism has attacked several ...
Letters to the Editor: March 24, 2023
Bending the rules? I understand the state Department of Environmental Quality has been reviewing, and may have approved, a revised stormwater pond on a tax lot east of the Riverbend Landfill’s permitted ...
Letters to the Editor: March 17, 2023
Wrong on all counts This letter is my opinion on the News-Register article of Feb. 10 about the Yamhill County commissioners exempting themselves from the rule of law on harassment. They decided harassment ...
Letters to the Editor: March 10, 2023
No to Gwendolyn As young graduates, we moved to tiny McMinnville in 1978 for our first jobs and soon welcomed children. We discovered that this little town was the perfect place to raise our family, so ...
