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Outgoing Gallery Theater President Debbie Harmon Ferry, right, talks with Ronnie LaCroute and theater manager Seth Renne about Gallery s new seats.  The theater has been using recycled seats for 40 years.

Gallery gets new seating

When audience members arrive for the opening of “The Addams Family,” the next show at Gallery Theater, they will find brand-new seating. After four decades of using recycled movie theater ...

Abbey Road Farm B&B hearing set back two weeks

A hearing on an application by Abbey Road Farm to expand its bed and breakfast operation has been rescheduled for7 p.m. Feb. 21 in room 32 of the county courthouse.  County planning commission ...

Rusty Rae/News-Register##Jennifer Weathers is seated with her attorney, Walter Todd of Salem, during Tuesday morning s plea and sentencing hearing.

updated Meighan Cordie's mother sentenced

Judge Cynthia Easterday wanted to impress upon Jennifer Weathers the gravity of drinking and driving. “From the bottom of your soul, I hope you are so sorry,” Easterday told her. “I’m ...

Snow dusts hills and West Valley

Snow dusted the Eola Hills and blanketed parts of the West Valley overnight on Sunday. On Monday morning, roads were clear and wet in the eastern half of the valley, but icy in the west. A winter weather ...

Pool closed for swim meet

McMinnville Aquatic Center will be closed to public swimmers Friday and Saturday, Feb. 8 and 9, as the center and McMinnville High School host the Pacific Conference High School District Swim Championships. About ...

State legislative roundup

Offshore drilling ban poised to pass SALEM — Oregon is poised to permanently ban offshore drilling, and to prohibit any drilling infrastructure from crossing state waters. The Statesman Journal ...

Band of Brothers to honor Vietnam vets

McMinnville Band of Brothers will honor Vietnam veterans at its Thursday, Feb. 7, meeting. The program, open to all veterans and their spouses, will start at 11:30 a.m. in the theater building on the Evergreen ...

City seeks input on housing needs

McMinnville planners are hosting an open house from 4 to 6 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 5, to open a dialogue with residents about the city’s housing needs. The event will be held at Kent Taylor Civic Hall, ...

Newberg man's death ruled a homicide

COUGAR, Washington — The body located Jan. 24 near a burned minivan in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest has been identified as Brian Bodle, 24, of Newberg, according to Skamania County Sheriff ...

Fire destroys manufactured home

A two-alarm fire shortly before 6 p.m. Saturday destroyed a manufactured home about eight miles west of McMinnville, at 19750 S.W. Peavine Road. The lone occupant of the residence, an adult male, was ...

Araguz

Linfield prof's book a finalist

"Until We Are Level Again," a poetry collection by Linfield College assistant professor José Angel Araguz, is a 2019 Oregon Book Awards finalist. The Oregon Book Awards and Fellowships honor writers ...

Catano

Man arrested on kidnapping, assault charges after incident in his apartment

McMinnville police arrested a 73-year-old man Friday after he allegedly attacked a woman in his apartment. Manuel Catano was charged with second-degree kidnapping, fourth-degree assault, menacing and ...

Hendricks Road campers will go to trial

Five men living in RVs at 7351 N.E. Hendricks Road filed for a trial date Tuesday after failing to negotiate a settlement with an attorney representing the property owner’s estate. Trial is set ...

Marcus Larson/News-Register##The A handmade sign points the way to the Falls Event Center facility on the Evergreen museum campus. Museum attorneys say the center is $445,000 in arrears.

Museum says it may vacate space building if Falls doesn't pay up

The Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum has told a federal judge overseeing the bankruptcy petition of the Falls Event Center that the center lied about the money it owes to the museum, and needs to pay ...

Former Newberg insurance agent pleads out in harassment case

A former Yamhill County insurance agent, charged with engaging in unwanted sexual contact with five adult females, elected not to stand trial a second time and pleaded no contest Wednesday morning in Yamhill ...

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