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Rusty Rae/News-Register##Ray Loera, manager, serves a customer at Tacos el Gordo stand, one of three businesses at 325 N.W. Highway 99W owned by his dad, Rodrigo “Rudy” Loera. The taco stand is next to the restaurant Tequila Grill and the new Azteca Market, which offers produce and Mexican products.

New market adds to popular taco truck, restaurant choices

Customers have plenty of choices at the Loera family’s trio of food businesses at 325 N.W. Highway 99W in McMinnville. They can buy ingredients, including meat, produce and Mexican products ...

Court Records: Aug. 8, 2023

CIVIL FILINGS Velocity Investments vs. Grant Ellsworth: Seeks $4,823.69 allegedly owed. JPMorgan Chase Bank vs. Patrick Fasching (cq): Seeks $4,978.37 allegedly owed. Velocity Investments vs. Shawna ...

Rachel Thompson/News-Register##CERT volunteers Dan Swart, left, Gaston, and Sandra Utt, Dayton, serve at the organization’s information and official greeters’ station at Yamhill County Fair.

Fairgoers welcomed, educated by CERT

Yamhill County Fair is an opportunity to learn about a wide variety of community programs and organizations. Along with commercial vendors, many local nonprofits and agencies stand ready with information ...

Church seeking singers fo 'Messiah'

The First Presbyterian Church is seeking singers to join in a Dec. 1 performance of Handel’s “Messiah.” The performance will feature a chorus conducted by Robin Pederson, former McMinnville ...

Rachel Thompson/News-Register##Dayton FFA member Mallorie Turley works with her pigs, Goose, bottom left, and Maverick, which she named for “Top Gun” characters. She raised them from piglets to show at the Yamhill County Fair.

Stopping By: Pieces of the Fair

Mallorie Turley, a member of the Dayton FFA program, was pleased with the performances of Maverick and Goose at the Yamhill County Fair. She had been raising the pigs since late March, when they ...

Paul Daquilante/News-Register##Judy Adams, manager of the Grand Sheramina Food Bank, said at least 100 families a month seek food assistance from the nonprofit.

Reality and Response: Filling a need in the West Valley

Judy Adams, Grand Sheramina Food Bank Manager, remembers well the car that pulled up in front of the agency on North Bridge Street in Sheridan. She won’t ever forget what happened next. The ...

Rock of Ages hosts fun festival

Rock of Ages/Valley View senior living community is inviting the general public to its annual Fun Festival, a day of hot air balloons, radio-controlled planes, food and music. The festival will take place ...

Farmers market offers activities

Special activities are planned Thursday, Aug. 10, at the McMinnville Farmers Market for “Farmers Market Week.” Children’s activities, music by local artist Freddie Lamb and raffles ...

County contracts for one dog kennel in Newberg

Following conversations in June and July, Yamhill County Commissioners on Thursday approved a contract with Newberg Animal Shelter Friends for one dedicated dog kennel, at a rate of $80 a day, ...

Winery suing Pacificorp over smoke taint

A Yamhill area winery plans to sue PacifiCorp over the 2020 Labor Day fires, saying the company caused the winery to lose the year’s sales and damaged its reputation. Elk Cove Vineyards ...

Rachel Thompson/News-Register##Tucker VanDyke of Dayton FFA steadies his market lamb as Danny Lutrell closes the gate during Saturday s annual 4-H and FFA Auction at the Yamhill County Fair. Seated above, auctioneers Randy Grudzinski, with mic on left, and R.L. Heaverlo, coax high bids from businesses and individuals who support young people and ranch and agriculture programs.

County Fair had another record-breaking year

Cool mornings and sunny skies contributed to boosting attendance at the Yamhill County Fair & Rodeo Wednesday through Saturday, Aug. 2 to 5. But what really led to an all-time attendance record was ...

Rusty Rae/News-Register##Public Works employees haul a trash can along Marsh Lane during a recent cleanup effort. Public Works Superintendent David Renshaw said in the last four months the city has cleaned 65 yards and debris using 125 staff hours for homeless camps.

Reality and Response: Issues tied to vagrancy impact city, businesses

The increase of unhoused people in McMinnville has far reaching impacts to the community, requiring more resources by the police, public works and municipal court staffs and headaches for downtown ...

City asks input in Dollars and Sense survey

The city of McMinnville’s Dollars and Sense polling program is live and ready for community members to share input on what to do with the remaining $1.50 tax authority resulting from the departure ...

Rachel Thompson/News-Register##David Beutler of McMinnville, a recent guest at First Baptist Church shelter, spoke with photographer Rachel Thompson about a street-level approach to understanding, if not a solution, the problem of the unhoused. “The problem is situationally different from case to case and person to person. And there are some smart people in there. They’ve lived this life for a while. There’s some serious intelligence that gets overlooked sometimes,” Beutler said. “We ain’t all bad people. Situation to situation, everybody’s a little bit different. Let’s take our jackets off, sit down at the table and figure something out. Hippies and bikers learned how to get along together a long time ago. But they learned to coexist. That’s where I get it from, was my mama and my daddy. My mama was a hippie and my daddy was a biker, and they learned to coexist. I got a little of the best of both worlds.”

Reality and Response: Clear problems, elusive solutions

Issues related to homelessness are easy to see. However, finding a solution for McMinnville is a colossal challenge. While the city, social service agencies and Yamhill County are working on a ...

McMinnville man receives citation for menacing

The Oregon State Police cited a McMinnville man for menacing related to a handgun incident on Highway 99W just north of the McDougall Road corner/Dayton scales the morning of Tuesday, Aug. 1. He ...

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