Downtown presentation to focus on resiliency

The McMinnville Downtown Association will host a community presentation on business resiliency Tuesday in an effort to keep downtown business booming through planned Third Street construction. The presentation ...

Consultant to help city flip rubber property

The city of McMinnville is enlisting the help of a consultant to flip the former Ultimate RB property it purchased last year, as time is ticking to unload the parcel. McMinnville’s Urban Renewal ...

Rusty Rae/News-Register##Serenity Franke uses facial expressions and gestures, as well as her voice, to portray Cleopatra in her winning Shakespeare monologue.

Stopping By: Acting on instinct

Mac High junior, and theater natural, takes her Shakespeare skills to New York City

Mac, Amity set to benefit from Elmer’s workforce housing bill

State Rep. Lucetta Elmer’s Housing Oregon’s Workforce bill passed the House of Representatives Tuesday with near unanimous support, 54-2. However, funding for projects in Sheridan, Carlton ...

Discussion to resume on city parks SDC structure

At a work session on Tuesday, March 12, McMinnville city councilors will resume discussion about the future of System Development Charges charged to developers for future parks development. The session ...

Rusty Rae/News-Register##Ben Weisz, left, and Josh Phillips of the Ursa Mechanica McMinnville High School robotics team review the mechanics of their robot in preparation for the state competition in Hillsboro on Sunday.

Mac High robotics teams head to state

Both McMinnville High School robotics teams, Ursa Mechanica and Chronobreak, will compete in the state First Robotics championship tournament this weekend. They will show off the robots they built and ...

Rachel Thompson/News-Register##From left, Yadira Duran and Dylan Hudson, both eighth-graders, celebrate the opening of Duniway Middle School’s new podcast studio with Rachel Godfrey of the Traveling Light Foundation and Elizabeth Hinchcliff of Cruising McMinnville. The latter organization supported Traveling Light’s effort to create the new studio at Duniway, where Godfrey’s son, the late Ronan Godfrey, was a student.

Podcast studio unveiled in memory of young video creator Ronan Godfrey

Ronan Godfrey loved making and narrating videos for his YouTube channel, Subterranean Gaming. When he told Make-a-Wish Oregon that he wanted to become a YouTube star, the nonprofit that helps critically ...

Camping violators put strain on Mac municipal court

Since the beginning of the year, 17 people arrested for McMinnville municipal offenses have been released from Yamhill County Jail before being arraigned, a trend the court is hoping to change. Municipal ...

Training, teamwork, proper equipment align to help save Mac High athlete’s life

When a student collapsed at McMinnville High School track practice Feb. 26, coaches and the athletic trainer jumped into action to save his life. Along with the medics who responded from the McMinnville ...

‘Ephemeral and scattered’: March 5 event at Linfield celebrates zines

Zines are alive and well. Make a zine, buy a zine, or simply look at a zine at “Zine Extravaganza,” at Linfield University’s Nicholson Library from 4:30 to 6 p.m. on March 5. The library ...

News-Register file photo##“We’re very blessed and lucky to get this location,” says Geraldi’s owner Joe Geraldi of the former Great Harvest Bread Co. building across Highway 99W from Linfield University.

Geraldi’s owner excited about reopening

Joe Geraldi is looking forward to reopening next month the restaurant his grandfather started, though in a new, more accessible location. His maternal granddad, Albert Geraldi, established the Italian ...

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City taking long look down Third

The view grew longer, the needs got deeper, and the costs are getting higher, when it comes to Third Street redevelopment planning. The city of McMinnville won’t have cost estimates for the Third ...

Starla Pointer/News-Register##Della Harris, 8, looks for Fancy Nancy titles and other books to check out. She often visits the McMinnville Public Library after classes at St. James School in the company of her grandmother, Jeanette Bernards.

'24 Hours: 3 to 4 p.m. at the library

People of all ages are getting the circulation going with books, music, and ‘things’

Starla Pointer/News-Register##Presbyterian Church pastor Matt Johnson speaks at the dedication of a Peace Pole on the McMinnville church grounds. About 30 members of the congregation attended Sunday’s event. The pole reads “May peace prevail on earth” in four languages.

Presbyterians plant peace pole

“May Peace Prevail on Earth,” reads the new Peace Pole dedicated Sunday at the McMinnville First Presbyterian Church. The pole, the newest of nine in McMinnville, repeats the message in English, ...

Traction and the ‘treadmill’; Council approves Fox Ridge plan and housing needs analyses

In two acts, planning for McMinnville’s future took center stage at city council this week. Council members approved a needs analysis for long-term growth and completed the approximately 18-month ...

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