Floating circus in Newberg Friday
NEWBERG — Flotsam! River Circus will be performing from 7 to 9:30 p.m. in Rogers Landing park in Newberg on Friday, July 26, The group is rafting down the Willamette River, giving performances in ...
Newberg murder case co-defendant sentenced
LaZelle Burnell, whose son, Jack, was shot to death Jan. 12, 2018, in the 100 block of East Second Street in Newberg, told Judge Ladd Wiles Tuesday morning how it had already been a difficult week for ...
Del Mar up for auction
After two years on the market, the estate of the late Del Smith, businessman and founder of the Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum, is up for auction, with a minimum bid set of $2.25 million. Bids are ...
Newberg targets traffic enforcement
NEWBERG — The Newberg-Dundee Police Department will target enforcement of specific traffic and pedestrian violations on First Street — Highway 99W — between Main and River streets throughout ...
Longtime Newberg fire chief dies
NEWBERG -- Longtime Newberg Fire Chief Al Blodgett, who had retired after 50 years with the department, died Saturday, June 29. Services have not yet been scheduled. A 1958 Newberg High School graduate, ...
Newberg man injured in crash
CARLTON — A Newberg man was injured in a single-vehicle crash early Wednesday morning west of Carlton on Meadow Lake Road. He was identified by the Yamhill County Sheriff’s Office as Grant ...
Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue has a new chief
TIGARD — Assistant Chief Deric Weiss will become the new Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue chief on Monday, July 31, succeeding Mike Duyck, who will retire following a 30-year career. Weiss will ...
Newberg to hold community visioning meeting
NEWBERG — The city of Newberg will hold a public meeting from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, June 18, to review a 20-year draft plan for the city’s future. The meeting will be held in the Chehalem Cultural ...
State files eminent domain proceedings against landowner
The state Department of Transportation has filed for eminent domain proceedings against a landowner in its ongoing attempt to complete the Newberg-Dundee Bypass, specifically the Wilsonville Road realignment. The ...
Fire damages rural Newberg home
NEWBERG — A rural Newberg home was heavily damaged by a two-alarm fire Monday afternoon. An off-duty Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue firefighter noticed smoke coming from the home on Northeast ...
Ken Austin, A-dec founder, dies at 87
NEWBERG — Ken Austin, co-founder of A-dec Inc. and a longtime Yamhill County and Oregon philanthropist, died Wednesday in Newberg. He was 87. Services are pending at Attrell’s Newberg Funeral ...
Armed Newberg woman taken into custody
NEWBERG — Less-lethal measures were used by Newberg-Dundee police Friday afternoon to take an adult female into custody after she was seen through a second story window of a residence possessing ...
Newberg man faces federal threat charge
A Newberg man faces a federal interstate communications-threats charge that alleges he threatened the staff and students at Lake Oswego High School and at a California college by e-mail and phone. He ...
Barricaded subject on drugs arrested in Newberg
NEWBERG — A Salem man allegedly high on ecstacy and methamphetamine barricaded himself in a Newberg residence for more than an hour before being taken into custody Tuesday night. German Alberto ...