Jeb Bladine: Evergeen-related stories still swirling
People have asked about the lack of recent updates on various sagas still swirling around the Evergreen campus. The best answer is legal conflicts evolve slowly, often with lengthy gaps between newsworthy ...
Highway 18 reopens following crash west of Grand Ronde
GRAND RONDE - Highway 18, about nine miles west of Grand Ronde , has partially reopened following a motor vehicle crash early Tuesday morning. The crash involved a tractor-trailer rig and a passenger ...
Cash, drugs seized in rural Yamhill; 3 arrested
YAMHILL - A five-month Yamhill County Interagency Narcotics Team investigation resulted in three arrests and the seizure of more than eight pounds of methamphetamine, a half pound of heroin and ...
Jeb Bladine: Counting stripes a path to patience
Patience appears on many lists of our most important virtues, but it’s not exactly a human norm. Roadways are filled with impatient people. To best see that impatience in action, just follow the ...
Jeb Bladine: An apt inspiration for culture change
A culture can change its laws, but laws don’t necessarily change the culture. For proponents of cultural change, it’s most disturbing when the offending laws themselves are unassailable. That ...
Jeb Bladine: One grain of sand in environmental war
State and local governments around America are being pressured to ban carry-out plastic bags at retail establishments. The campaign worked in McMinnville. A local ban began in September at large retailers ...
Fourth candidate enters judge's race
Yamhill County Deputy District Attorney Lisl Miller announced Friday that she will seek Circuit Court Position 2 - 25th District - in the May primary election. That brings to four the number of candidate ...
McCready found guilty of all charges
UPDATE: Friday, Feb. 16: Timothy McCready was found guilty of all charges by Judge Ronald Stone as his manslaughter trial wrapped up late Thursday afternoon in Yamhill County Circuit Court. After ...
Truck driver dies in Highway 99W crash
DUNDEE - A truck driver suffered a heart attack triggering a two-vehicle crash about one mile south of Dundee on Highway 99W Wednesday morning. The Oregon State Police identified him as Dwayne Steven ...
Jeb Bladine: City struggles with on-street RV living
McMinnville and Newberg, as most cities, have enacted municipal code protections against neighborhood nuisances. They bar activities that, in Newberg’s words, “promote blight, reduce property ...
Jeb Bladine: Energy not growing from high-value soil
We call them solar farms, but the operations aren’t growing energy from the high-value farmland lying below their arrays of solar panels. Therein lies the Oregon controversy playing out locally this ...
Mother of infant charged in death
[Updated 9 a.m. 1/23/18] Clely Arely Flores-Ramirez consumed seven or eight double shots of rum the night before she and David Arias called 911 to report her three-month-old daughter was not breathing, ...
We built the road; now fix the signage
Here’s a long-awaited sentence: I drove the Newberg-Dundee Bypass! It’s just Phase 1, thus incomplete, And funding and topographic challenges caused an interchange flaw that may become a black ...
Newberg man shot and killed during alleged robbery
PORTLAND - A Newberg man who was shot and killed Wednesday night while allegedly robbing an employee at the U-Haul at Powell Blvd. business has been identified as Robert R. Porter, 53, according to Portland ...
McMinnville police car struck
A McMinnville police officer sustained a bruised leg when his patrol vehicle was struck by another car Thursday night. Capt. Tim Symons gave this account: Shortly after 10 p.m., the officer, ...
