Fair entries due
Entries for the Yamhill County Fair’s open class competitions are due Saturday, July 28, or Tuesday, July 31, depending on the category. Textiles, hobbies, crafts, ceramics, china painting, fine ...
Local firefighters respond to statewide incidents
Dundee Fire Chief John Stock was aware Gov. Kate Brown on Saturday morning declared the Garner Complex Fire in Southern Oregon a conflagration, prompting a statewide entreaty for additional resources. Stock ...
DUII driver goes to prison
DALLAS — A McMinnville man who admitted he had consumed “a lot of alcohol” and couldn’t even remember crashing his car, resulting in injuries to two passengers, has been sentenced ...
County continuing to show success in program to reduce inmate populations
Yamhill County’s program to both reduce prison and jail populations and teach habitual criminals to stop committing crimes, continues to show successes, Community Justice Department Director Jessica ...
Park aesthetics to be prioritized in coming years
Lucy King remembers how the streets neighboring Roma Sitton Memorial Park looked when she moved nearby 10 years ago. The north end of the West McMinnville Linear Park had lush, healthy greenery lining ...
ODOT estimates next phase of bypass will cost $185 million
Local supporters of the Newberg-Dundee bypass finally have a target to work toward, as the state Department of Transportation on Thursday released preliminary cost estimates for completing Phase II of ...
News-Register sweeps ONPA awards
The News-Register won the sweepstakes award and 24 other awards, including 14 firsts, in the annual Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association’s Better Newspaper Contest. The N-R was honored for its ...
Despite fines, many RV dwellers remain on the street
McMinnville police have issued Jack and Babsie Skaw 13 tickets since July 10 for parking their RV on Marsh Lane. That doesn’t count all the tickets they’ve received since they took up residence ...
Update: Drowning victim recovered from the Willamette River
WHEATLAND — The body of California resident Leocadio Sendejas-Sanchez, 68, who went missing last Wednesday while swimming in the Willamette River near the Wheatland Ferry, was recovered Sunday afternoon. About ...
Detention center responds to mental health challenges
Juvenile detention centers have been adding professional mental health providers to the staff throughout the state, and Yamhill County is about to follow. The move reflects a steady increase in the number ...
Firefighters respond to Davis Street blaze
McMinnville firefighters responded about 6:35 p.m. Monday to a reported residential structure fire in the 800 block of Southeast Davis Street. Flames were contained to a porch, according to Yamhill Communications ...
McMinnville businessman charged with sexually abusing boy
James Adam Tate, founder of NW Food & Gifts in downtown McMinnville, was arraigned Wednesday afternoon in Yamhill County Circuit Court on one count of first-degree sexual abuse. His alleged victim ...
Generations of royalty unite at Yamhill Derby Days
YAMHILL — In 1978, Tim Phillips pulled Derby Days’ princess Nancy Whitchurch’s float in the parade as she waved to a crowd of Yamhill residents. The high school sweethearts married the ...
News-Register settles FTC complaint
The News-Register Publishing Company has resolved a complaint by the Federal Trade Commission, alleging a 2016 violation of the Federal Trade Commission Act. Without admitting any violation, the N-R agreed ...
Keeping things cool
Caroline O’Brien went to the McMinnville Public Library April 22 and was absorbed in a tale of danger and suspense — but not one from any books. She watched a fellow patron verbally abuse ...
