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 ...
Stopping By: Fair ambassadors love animals
All three will show animals in addition to carrying out other duties
Y-C voters saying yes
YAMHILL — Voters have convincingly approved a $14.2 million bond measure in the Yamhill-Carlton School District. The bond will fund major repairs and upgrades to Yamhill-Carlton schools. ...
Mock crash sends important message: Drive safely
YAMHILL -- Students at Yamhill-Carlton High School received an unforgettable lesson Friday morning: A mock crash, complete with classmates dripping fake blood, reminded them to drive safely. Yamhill and ...
Carlton City Hall reconnected
CARLTON -- One phone line has been re-established at Carlton City Hall, which had been without phone service since Sunday afternoon. The city hall phone system crashed when power went out Sunday. Workers ...
Carlton woman located wet and cold, but OK
UPDATE: 5:30 p.m. Thursday Connie Barrett was located about 5 p.m. on Main Street in east Carlton. She had been reported missing since early Wednesday. Barrett was wet and cold, but apparently ...
Pool backers seek financial support
CARLTON — Voters in Carlton passed a $975,000 bond issue in May to finance replacement of a poolhouse dating back to the 1930s. However, completion of the project is contingent on Friends of the ...
Ghosts return to Haunted Granary for revenge
CARLTON — According to a legend featured in Carlton’s first Halloween attraction, back in 2012, a teenage couple once met up with a serial killer in the town’s tallest structure, the ...
Stopping By: Yamhill couple team up for Art Harvest tour
YAMHILL — Artists Marc and Veronica Bartlett put down their usual tools — saws and sanders in his case; clay, paints, a camera and found objects in hers — for a few days in order to spruce ...
Artists will open studios for Art Harvest tour
Thirty-nine local artists will display their work and their creative process during the annual Art Harvest Studio Tour. The Arts Alliance of Yamhill County puts on the annual tour, which allows viewers ...
Carlton, Yamhill women injured in Highway 47 crash
GASTON – A Carlton woman and Yamhill woman were injured Thursday morning in a three-vehicle crash involving a fully-loaded truck of corn on Highway 47 north of Gaston. Sarah R. Riffel, 27, of Carlton, ...
Life lessons
YAMHILL — Some of the members of the Yamhill-Carlton Class of 1965 gasped as they entered their alma mater. “Things have changed!” exclaimed Rich Jernstedt, explaining he hadn’t ...
Crushing the competition
Patrick Swanick has never actually kicked off his shoes, climbed into a giant wooden vat and stomped grapes. However, as the manager of the grape-stomping competition at the Carlton Crush Harvest ...
Fun on four wheels, or fewer
Derby, tricycle races among highlights of Yamhill festival
Cooking up ideas
Lynn Van Horn makes goat cheese parfait. Bekha Loomba fashions three kinds of chutney. What will emerge next from the kitchen of Carlton’s Willamette Valley CookSpace? Van Horn and co-founder Lynnette ...
