Along the Street: First Federal adds two
First Federal Savings and Loan Association has two new faces this month, one in the McMinnville branch and the other on the locally-owned bank’s board of directors. Lindsay Liddell joins First Federal ...
LUBA sets date for solar farm appeal
The state Land Use Board of Appeals has scheduled oral arguments on a proposed 12-acre solar array outside Yamhill for September 13, a Thursday, at 9 a.m. in Salem. The hearing will take place in the ...
National Night Out events planned
When National Night Out started in 1984, organizers asked people to turn on their porch lights and use the event as a springboard for getting to know their neighbors and local police officers. Not only ...
Hearing on Mac housing development extended
McMinnville residents have until next month to comment on a proposal to turn the land surrounding Finishing Touch Concrete Inc., at 1601 N.E. McDaniel Lane, into a housing development. The McMinnville ...
Two deputies cleared in officer-involved shooting
Kelly Sutton Jr. warned Yamhill County Sheriff’s Office deputy Stephanie Sulak to “stay away” from him or he would kill her partner, YCSO Sgt. Sam Elliott. During the course of an intense ...
Exhaustive investigation followed officer-involved shooting
The Yamhill County Major Crime Response Team gathered on the Amity Elementary School grounds shortly after 27-year-old Kelly Sutton Jr. died Saturday, July 7, as the result of an officer-involved shooting ...
Community garden celebrates support
Within the past five years, the Yamhill County Master Gardeners organization has taken an otherwise yellowing plot of grass and transformed it into a community garden. And it took time out to celebrate ...
Humlies advance to live shows on 'America's Got Talent'
UPDATE: 10 p.m. Tuesday -- We Three, the Humlie siblings' band, was chosen to advance to the live rounds of "America's Got Talent." The trio made its second appearance on the television show Tuesday night. ...
International fair official visit
The president and CEO of the International Association of Fairs and Expositions will visit the Yamhill County Fair Wednesday, its opening day. The fair runs Wednesday through Saturday on the fairgrounds ...
Cemetery preservation workshop a draw in Dayton
DAYTON — People interested in historic cemeteries — both locals and those from as far away as Jacksonville — gathered Thursday and Friday in Dayton for an Oregon Commission on Historic ...
Body of missing Grand Ronde man found
The body of missing Grand Ronde resident, Kerry Albert Letsch, was found about 5 p.m. Sunday in the Santiam River, about one mile downriver from the Santiam Rest Area. He was last seen the morning of ...
Students build libraries and literacy
Julio Partida had helped install shingles before, but never on a roof this small. The middle schooler smiled as he secured the shingles on top of a structure about 22 inches wide and 30 inches tall — ...
Carlton police will pedal patrols
CARLTON — Police have two new patrol vehicles, painted shiny black with gold lettering and trim and equipped with lights and sirens, just like the rest of the fleet. They don’t run on gas, ...
Comcast plans temporary outage
Comcast customers will see the service go dark between midnight Aug. 7 and Aug. 8, between midnight and 7 a.m. each day. Tim Goodman, Comcast's director of government and regulatory affairs at its regional ...
