Along the Street: Mac Market expanding its offerings
Mac Market, a community gathering places that offers food, beverages, local produce, crafts, and events, is making some changes to provide more selections for its customers, owner Diana Riggs said. Located ...
‘There’s no such thing as somebody else’s children’
Preschoolers are busy in the playground outside their classroom at A Family Place’s West Valley location, running, cooking at a pretend stove, pulling at plants, having fun. They are learning to ...
Counties issue W. Valley ambulance warning
West Valley Fire District is leaving ambulance and other emergency medical calls in its district to the new ambulance service provided by the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde and other agencies, ...
West Valley crime spree results in prison term
Tanner Abbott carjacked one victim, stole four other vehicles, including a forklift, and led a Yamhill County Sheriff’s Office deputy on a high-speed pursuit, all within a two-and-a-half-week period ...
Area schools report more than 100 cases
The National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., rang its bells 700 times Tuesday, once for every 1,000 Americans lost to COVID-19 since the pandemic started — 700,000 deaths. In Oregon, 3,867 people ...
Cameras eyed for Sheridan City Park
The Sheridan Rotary Club is raising money to install surveillance cameras at City Park. Members Matt Huegli and Brad Myers presented a proposal to the city council at Monday night’s work session. “Unfortunately, ...
Demo begins on former Blue Heron Paper Mill site
Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde leaders gathered in ceremony Sept. 21 to mark the beginning of on-site demolition work at the former Blue Heron Paper Mill in Oregon City. The event marked the first ...
New political lines drawn; same divide may remain
Voters in the cities of Newberg, Dundee, Amity, Sheridan, Willamina and Grand Ronde will have new representation in the Oregon House and in a Senate District 12 that now includes nearly all of Yamhill ...
Teens will show, sell Mustangs at September event
Oregon Teens and Mustangs will host its 2021 Mustang Adoption Challenge on Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 4-5, at the Yamhill County Fairgrounds. Lexi Merkel and Lindy will compete in the youth division. ...
Stopping by Lexi and Lindy
Sheridan girl sees her own caring abilities emerge as she fosters horse in Teens and Oregon Mustangs program
Fire crews respond to West Valley wildland blaze
The Sheridan/Southwest Polk/West Valley fire districts responded to a two-alarm wildland fire in the 7000 block of Ridgeway Road, off Highway 22 in Polk County, about 3 p.m. Tuesday. It ...
Southwest Polk Fire District receives grant
The Spirit Mountain Community Fund has awarded a $21,950 grant to the Southwestern Polk Fire District. The district will use the money to upgrade extrication equipment used to remove victims involved ...
Willamina Fourth back on
Willamina's Old-fashioned Fourth of July will return this year. Organizers had decided in the spring to cancel the event again this year, as they did due to the pandemic in 2020. But with fewer restrictions ...
As much pomp as circumstances allow
Yamhill County high schools will hold their graduations in the next two weeks. The ceremonies, which were drastically altered in 2020 because of the pandemic, will look much more like normal this year ...
