Rusty Rae/News-Register##McMinnville firefighters use a ladder truck to hang the huge holiday banner across Highway 99W in south McMinnville Sunday morning. Banners on each end of town will greet travelers throughout the season. Below: Comcast lineman Mitch Evans of Independence places a Christmas wreath on a pole near Bi-Mart. Comcast has been helping with the installation of McMinnville’s holiday displays for more than two decades.

Local communities ring in the holidays

Santa’s Parade and the Upper City Park tree lighting ceremony that follows will help families jump start their holly, jolly holiday season in downtown McMinnville Friday afternoon. The parade starts ...

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Carlton police Chief Kevin Martinez is all smiles as he takes a breakfast order from a  student at the Yamhill-Carlton Elementary School Tuesday morning. Police visit the school frequently so students know then as friendly faces.

Police, chocolate milk draw kids for breakfast

CARLTON -- As soon as Yamhill-Carlton Elementary School opened its front doors Tuesday, students rushed in and lined up for breakfast. Eighty to 85 children usually eat the morning meal at the 360-student ...

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Built by students at Yamhill-Carlton High School, and now for sale, the
house features an upstairs sleeping area big enough for a queen bed and
a large roof deck for entertaining.

Little house, big lessons

YAMHILL — After nearly two years of work, most of it one hour at a time, Yamhill-Carlton High School’s tiny house is ready for a new owner. Career tech students designed and built the 20-by-8-foot ...

Meadow Lake crash injures one

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 Edward ...

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Nephew threatens to kill uncle at his Carlton home

Updated. CARLTON — Thomas Greenslade, allegedly armed with a knife, reportedly threatened to kill his uncle after assaulting him Monday afternoon at the victim’s South Yamhill Street residence. Before ...

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Dave Merz, who runs Carlton Valley Honey, offers three varieties in his shop, all named for the flowers from which his bees collect nectar: poison oak, forest flowers and blackberry.

Sweet as honey

Dave Merz’s great-great-grandparents kept bees in Switzerland before they immigrated to the U.S. in the 1880s. Two generations later, Merz donned a protective hood and jacket and became a beekeeper ...

The buzz on bees and honey

* Bees can't see white or red. Beekeepers often uses hives that are white so they appear neutral, and non-threatening, to bees. Merz paints his hives pale yellow, aqua, green and gray to help his bees ...

Shop offers Carlton Valley Honey

Three kinds of honey are available from Dave Merz's Carlton Valley Honey shop. They are named for the flowers from which bees gathered nectar to make the honey: Poison oak, blackberry and wild forest. ...

Reach the Beach goes through Yamhill County Saturday

Three segments of the American Lung Association’s annual Reach the Beach “Cycle for Air” fundraising bike ride will start in Yamhill County Saturday morning. About 3,000 riders are expected ...

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Vietnam veteran Robert Moxley talks to a Yamhill-Carlton High School class about his experiences as a Marine in battle. He was shot, peppered with schrapnel and bayonetted in Vietnam.

Y-C students chronicle legacies of local vets

YAMHILL — About 10 minutes before the end of the school day, Yamhill-Carlton High School’s vice principal made an announcement over the intercom. Tiger wrestlers were about to leave for the ...

Y-C to dedicate new dome

YAMHILL — Yamhill-Carlton School District will officially open its new science and career tech education building with a ribbon cutting on Thursday. The ceremony will start at 6 p.m. in the building, ...

Juveniles arrested after paint, theft spree

CARLTON — Several residents awoke June 13 to find their vehicles or homes covered by spray paint, their cars  broken into and items stolen from them overnight. Carlton police concluded its ...

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Yamhill-Carlton High School teacher Jordan Salavish, pictured in his classroom, was named Oregon Small Schools Teacher of the Year.

Y-C teacher wins state honor

YAMHILL — Jordan Slavish, a math and technology teacher at Yamhill-Carlton High School, has been named Oregon Small Schools Teacher of the Year for 2017-18. Principal Greg Neuman surprised Slavish ...

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Pihl Excavating backs the Yamhill Carlton Storehouse food bank s main space, a shipping container into the First Baptist Church lot. The food bank will reopen May 10 in its new location.

Carlton food bank gets resettled

CARLTON — The Yamhill-Carlton Storehouse Food Bank, formerly known as Joseph’s Storehouse, has moved to a new location. Volunteers are in the process of painting and setting up at the new ...

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Carlton mayor winning re-election

CARLTON — Carlton Mayor Kathie Oriet appeared to be handily winning re-election in Tuesday balloting. By 2 a.m.., Oriet was leading challenger Darrin Proebstel 472 to 359, or 56.80 percent ...

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