Motels used to shelter homeless at high risk
The Yamhill Community Action Partnership has received $85,000 from McMinnville, Newberg and the county to help it house homeless people at high medical risk from COVID-19 in area motel rooms. YCAP also ...

For the lucky ones, Payroll Protection Program throws a lifeline
The federal government’s highly touted $659 billion loan program to save small businesses during the coronavirus pandemic has led to uneven results in McMinnville and Yamhill County. A worried Main ...

Smoke alarms credited for saving Newberg residents
Smoke alarms are credited for saving five Newberg residents when their South Whitney Drive home caught fire late Sunday night, according to the Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue. The fire was ...
Wolves & People headed back to county for another hearing
An events permit for the Wolves & People Brewery outside Newberg is headed back to Yamhill County for another review. The state Land Use Board of Appeals and Court of Appeals have ruled the county ...

Casey retires as Newberg-Dundee police chief
Brian Casey has retired as Newberg-Dundee Police Chief after 29 years with the department, effective today, the city announced in a press release. Capt. Jeff Kosmicki has been named interim ...
A-dec local layoffs reach 100
A-dec Inc., the dental equipment giant and one of Newberg’s biggest employers, has laid off about 100 of its 1,200 global employees in response to a COVID-19 triggered downturn in the industry. The ...

Virus is crimping budgets in both Newberg and Mac
Because of the fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic, Newberg’s proposed city budget for 2020-21 is down $4 million or 3.5% from this year’s approved budget. And officials say the decrease a harbinger ...
County deaths have been from senior retirement home in Newberg
All six deaths from COVID-19 in Yamhill County have been among elderly residents of Astor House at Springbrook Oaks, a retirement home in Newberg. The most recent was a 94-year-old woman with underlying ...
Commissioners approve Memorial Day boat race permit in Newberg
Approval contingent on governor’s stay-home order being lifted by Memorial Day

COVID-19 cases at 28 in county, two more deaths
The Oregon Health Authority announced two more Yamhill County deaths related to COVID-19 this week, bringing the total to five. All were men over 90 years old who died at Providence Medical Center in Newberg. The ...

Mac hospital plucks new CEO from Newberg
After eight years as CEO up the road at the Providence Newberg Medical Center, Lorinda (Lori) Bergen is moving to McMinnville to assume the helm at the Willamette Valley Medical Center. She will replace ...
Newberg man goes to prison for life
A Newberg man will spend the rest of his life in prison after pleading guilty to sexually abusing a young girl at a Newberg home. Jason Nasmyth, 37, who was already serving a nearly 18-year prison term ...
Dundee fire chief placed on administrative leave
Longtime Dundee Fire Chief John Stock has been placed on administrative leave, pending an investigation of a complaint that he harassed an employee, gave her unwelcome personal attention, and treated her ...
Newberg library marshals Mask Force
Last week, the director of the Newberg Public Library received a request: could the library staff join local Rotarians to make protective masks for those in need? A group of volunteers quickly responded ...