City work session on missing middle housing set for Thursday
The city of McMinnville Planning Commission will host a work session this Thursday on ensuring the city complies with rules set out in HB 2001, the state’s “missing middle housing bill” ...
Farewell parade for outgoing Habitat exec
McMinnville Area Habitat for Humanity will host a COVID-safe parade for its executive director, Mary Stern, who is leaving the nonprofit to move closer to her family in New Jersey. Stern has lived ...
McMinnville hires new school superintendent
Debbie Brockett, now a 'region superintendent' at the fifth-largest school district in the U.S., will become a next leader of the McMinnville School District. School board members unanimously approved ...
Cleary, 'Girl from Yamhill' children's author dies
Beloved children's author Beverly Cleary, who was born in McMinnville and spent several years of her childhood in Yamhill, died Friday, March 25, in Carmel, California. She was 104 and would have turned ...
Sowing the seeds of community
Polly Blum grew up on a farm growing berries for Smucker’s jelly, which started her on a path to becoming a master gardener. She tends to her boysenberries, raspberries, apples, plums and more and ...
Transgender leader to give Linfield talk
Linfield University is planning activities for International Transgender Day of Visibility, including a live-streamed talk by Trystan Reese, a transgender leader, educator and speaker who became widely ...
Eggs support child abuse prevention
Juliette’s House and Linfield University students are selling Easter eggs as a way of raising funds for child abuse prevention. The “Egg My Yard” fundrasiser offers candy filled eggs ...
Along the street: Owners of Subterra retire, close catering company
After more than 36 years in the food business, Janice Patrice Bleck and her husband, Martin Bleck, have sold their Newberg restaurant, Subterra, and closed their Rogue Gourmet Catering company. They ...
Emails to chamber added to meeting documents, frustrating city councilor
At the beginning of the Tuesday McMinnville council meeting, Council President Remy Drabkin, filling in for Mayor Scott Hill, briefly mentioned an email had been added to the council packet Tuesday. The ...
School board meets Monday to discuss superintendent hiring
McMinnville School Board members will meet Monday evening to consider hiring a new superintendent. The board narrowed the list to one finalist, with whom it has been negotiating a contract since March ...
McMinnville man killed in Highway 47 crash; three injured
A McMinnville man was killed and three others were injured Tuesday morning in a two-vehicle head-on crash on Highway 47, north of Yamhill, in the Cove Orchard area. The Oregon State Police identified ...
Stopping by: 'Endless paintings'
Driving from her new home in Amity to her studio in McMinnville, landscape artist Erin Hanson notices daffodils and oaks, green fields and hills, moody sky and rainbows. “I see 10 or 12 ...
Adaptive egg hunt planned April 3
Families with special-needs children can attend the annual Adaptive Easter Egg Hunt on Saturday, April 3. The free event is open to children with physical, developmental or intellectual disabilities. ...
Teachers, students excited to return to the classroom
As elementary students settled into their classrooms for the first time in a year, teacher Erik Svec noticed a fourth-grader who seemed much more eager to apply himself than he had during distance learning. From ...
Mac school board chooses a finalist, starts negotiations
After 15 hours of in-person interviews and discussion last week, the McMinnville School Board narrowed its search for a new superintendent to one finalist. Board members are negotiating with the finalist ...
