Amity City Administrator Montana city manager finalist
Outgoing Amity City Administrator Michael Thomas interviewed for the city manager’s position in Helena, Montana this week, as one of three finalists for the job. Thomas, a finalist for the Astoria ...
Community meetings will focus on a new Amity Library
Deb Conrad, president of Amity’s Friends of the Library, can’t wait for the day when the doors to a new facility open to the public. She said the current 30-by-45-square-foot building, located ...
Machete attack suspect indicted
Peter Huber has been indicted by a Yamhill County Grand Jury on charges that include second-degree attempted murder in connection with the alleged Friday, Feb. 3, machete attack on his brother. The 33-year-old ...
Eola Hills provides a case study for demands over diminishing water
Yamhill County has three groundwater limited areas, two abutting in the Eola Hills outside Amity, and one on Chehalem Mountain, and homeowners have long argued that other parts of the county are reaching ...
Local history, current crisis both expose difficulties surrounding water use, distribution
In 2021, Yamhill County Planning Commission Chair Dan Armstrong told the News-Register that water is one of the top concerns brought to the planning commission. “It seems like everything that comes ...
Amity man charged with attempted murder in alleged machete attack
An Amity man, Peter Darius Huber, 33, who allegedly attacked his brother with a machete early on the morning of Friday, Feb. 3, has been charged with one count each of second-degree attempted murder, first-degree ...
Alleged machete assault suspect located in Portland
UPDATE Friday evening: The suspect and vehicle have been located in Portland. ---------------------------- The Yamhill County Sheriff’s Office is searching for an Amity man who allegedly ...
Sheriff's office takes two Salem residents into custody
Two Salem residents were arrested by Yamhill County Sheriff’s Office deputies in Amity Monday, Jan. 16, one on the high school grounds and the other in the nearby rural area of Hopewell. As a result ...
Amity City Councilors sworn into office
Denis Saucier and Caleb Shields were sworn in and began their four-year terms on the Amity City Council at the Wednesday, Jan. 4, meeting. They will serve through December 2026. Melissa Bojorquez, April ...
Amity City Council votes to accept election results
The Amity City Council unanimously voted in its Dec. 7 meeting to declare official the results in the November election. “It was an interesting election year,” City Recorder Natasha Johnson ...
Two 'Nutcracker' ballets planned
Two versions of the most popular Christmas ballet, “The Nutcracker,” will be presented this month in McMinnville. The fairytale ballet is set to the music of Russian composer Tchaikovsky. ...
Cities plan tree lightings, parades
Yamhill County cities are planning tree lightings, Christmas parades and other holiday events. Amity, Lafayette, Sheridan and Yamhill have events scheduled tonight. Amity’s Christmas parade will ...
Amity kids go cold on their teachers
Dousing teachers with ice water serves as reward for meeting fundraiser goal
Friends will fundraise for new library
Friends of the Amity Public Library will be fundraising to pay for things (furniture, computers, etc.) that cannot be covered by Community Development Block Grant funding. There’s also hope the community ...
