##Sol Allen

Newberg School Board: Allen and Irwin vie for Zone 7 seat

In Zone 7 of the Newberg School Board, Sol Allen and Chris Irwin, both new candidates, are vying for the seat currently held by Brian Shannon, who did not file for re-election. Allen said he is ...

##Nancy Woodward

Newberg School Board: Peregrino de Brito faces Woodward in Zone 4

In Zone 4 of the Newberg School Board, Nancy Woodward, a longtime public and private school librarian, is challenging Raquel Peregrino de Brito, a dental technology sales consultant appointed to ...

##James Wolfer

Newberg School Board: Wolfer back in the race against Brown for Zone 6

School resource officer James Wolfer, who withdrew briefly from a race to challenge Newberg School Board Chair Dave Brown, is back in the race. Wolfer withdrew after he said Brown’s supporters ...

Newberg School Board: Hayden, Osborne seek Zone 3 slot

Jeremy Hayden and Sue Osborne are vying for a seat on the Newberg School Board, seeking to replace Ron Rilee, who was appointed to the board last year, but did not file to run for election. Neither ...

Newberg measure would require vote on any projects to house the homeless

An initiative petition in Newberg seeks to prevent transitional housing for homeless people from being developed without a public vote in a primary or general election during an even-numbered year and ...

News-Register file photo##In this 2011 photo, Dick Erath checks early spring growth in his vineyard in the Dundee Hills. A farmer at heart, he kept meticulous records of each crop.

Dick Erath remembered as influential wine pioneer

Oregon wine pioneer Dick Erath of Vancouver, Washington, a former longtime resident of Dundee, died Wednesday following two weeks in the hospital. He was 87. A former electrical engineer, Erath ...

##James Wolfer

Wolfer withdraws from Newberg school board race

A police officer who challenged Newberg School Board Chair Dave Brown in the upcoming May election announced last week that he is withdrawing from the race because of harassment from allies of Brown. James ...

Newberg-Dundee Police focus on speed enforcement

Newberg-Dundee Police are conducting enhanced speed enforcement patrols throughout this month. Grants made available by Oregon Impact and the Oregon Department of Transportation allow for increased ...

Newberg-Dundee officer treated for drug exposure

A Newberg-Dundee Police officer was treated Sunday, March 12, for an exposure to an unidentified drug. He was transported to the Providence Newberg Medical Center and released shortly after being ...

Newberg-Dundee Police focus on speed enforcement

Newberg-Dundee Police are conducting enhanced speed enforcement patrols throughout this month. Grants made available by Oregon Impact and the Oregon Department of Transportation allow for increased staffing ...

Washington County Sheriff s Office##Deborah Atrops  body was found stuffed in the trunk of her car in 1988. The case went cold, but when reopened and investigated, her husband, who has been residing in Newberg, was charged with her murder.

Newberg man arrested on suspicion of killing his wife

A cold case dating back more than three decades re-emerged with the arrest of a Newberg resident. A Washington County Grand Jury indicted Robert Elmer Atrops, 68, Wednesday, March 1, on one count of second-degree ...

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Chefs work in the kitchen of The Jory restaurant at the Allison, as seen from the “Chef’s Table” room where small groups can gather with Chef Jack Strong.

Stopping by: Cultural cuisine, featuring local ingredients

As a boy growing up near Newport on the Oregon coast, Jack Strong learned that cooking with love could elevate any ingredient, from the most traditional to the most humble — even government commodities. Strong, ...

Newberg man killed in Highway 18 crash

A Newberg man was killed late Monday afternoon in a two-vehicle crash east of McMinnville on Highway 18, according to the Oregon State Police. The OSP identified the victim as Eric Hall, 52, who was pronounced ...

Kjersten

Newberg man dies in DOC custody

Thomas James Kjersten of Newberg, sentenced in 2018 to 12 1/2 years in prison after pleading guilty in Yamhill County Circuit Court to four counts of first-degree sexual abuse, a Class B felony, died Monday, ...

Newberg policy rescinded

A controversial policy on “political, quasi-political or controversial” signs passed in 2021 by Newberg School District is history, and the district superintendent said he hopes the issue will ...

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