Fort Yamhill hosts history days

VALLEY JUNCTION — Costumed interpreters will relate the story of soldiers who served at Fort Yamhill during a special event set for Saturday and Sunday, July 18 and 19, at the Fort Yamhill State ...

Starla Pointer/News-Register##Gallery owner and artist Gary Lawrence discusses his love of creating metal
sculptures, such as the one featuring trilliums on his right.

Lawrence mounts first show of his own work in a decade

BELLEVUE -- For the first time in a decade, metal sculptor Gary Lawrence is hosting a show of his own work. The display coincides with two other events: the 38th anniversary of the Lawrence Gallery, which ...

Urual Thomas sings with a girl from from the crowd during the 2014 Wildwood MusicFest##Courtesy Wildwood Musicfest

Rock out and chill out at Wildwood MusicFest

This year's Wildwood MusicFest and Campout offers an opportunity to spend an entire weekend listening to top-drawer bands, savoring food and beverages from local vendors, contemplating quality ...

Man charged in animal sex case

GRAND RONDE — A Grand Ronde man, who had to be tased four times to overcome his resistance to being taken into custody, is facing charges alleging sexual assault of a horse. Glen Alan Garbutt, ...

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Willamina High School football teammates Dillon Ramer (left) and Dakota Rock (right) in the Teen Guys Right-handed (177 pounds and up) classification at the Willamina 4th of July Arm Wrestling Championships Saturday. Referee Mark Owen (center) supervised the match.

Sun's out, guns out

Skill, not just brawn, on display at the Willamina 4th of July Arm Wrestling Championships 

Grand Ronde Tribe hosts powwow

GRAND RONDE — The 2015 Marcellus Norwest Memorial Veterans Powwow, which honors late Grand Ronde Tribal elder Marce Norwest, is slated to run Friday, July 10, through Sunday, July 12, at the Uyxat ...

Rockne Roll/News-Register##Kennedy Laughlin rides down Main St. in Willamina during Saturday’s Fourth of July Parade. The city
celebrated Independence
Day with a barbecue, fireworks and music.

Willamina celebrates 4th in style

WILLAMINA — A breeze from the west blew over Willamina’s Lamson Park Friday night, cooling picnickers who turned out to enjoy a barbecue and listen to music by Portland-based Dedric Clark and ...

Firefighters save Monroe Oak office

SHERIDAN — The Sheridan and West Valley firefighters worked quickly Friday afternoon to extinguish a grass fire that threatened the office building at Monroe Oak. Sheridan firefighters were ...

Submitted photo##Firefighters battle a blaze at a rural Willamina home caused by fireworks.

Fireworks set Willamina home ablaze

WILLAMINA — Spent fireworks that smoldered overnight in barkdust reignited Saturday, touching off a blaze that destroyed a rural Willamina home. West Valley Fire District personnel responded to ...

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Rick Gandee of Lebanon managed to drive his 1968 Dodge pickup (above) off an embankment near the Willamina Reservoir, above the field where the Willamina Mud Drags took place Saturday.

Full throttle in Willamina

Open class gets wild at Mud Drags

It promises to be a bang-up Fourth in Willamina

WILLAMINA — There promises to be plenty of snap, crackle and pop in the air during Willamina’s Old Fashioned Fourth of July Celebration, and July 3 will bring some sizzle, too. Starting at ...

Dedric Clark and the Social Animals will play at the community barbecue in Willamina on Friday, July 3, and before the town’s fireworks show on the Fourth.

It promises to be a bang-up Fourth in Willamina

WILLAMINA — There promises to be plenty of snap, crackle and pop in the air during Willamina’s Old Fashioned Fourth of July Celebration, and July 3 will bring some sizzle, too. Starting at ...

Willamina teacher pleads guilty to assault

Willamina Elementary School teacher Heather Hughes has pleaded guilty to one count of fourth-degree assault, a Class A misdemeanor, in connection with an incident involving her 6-year-old daughter. Yamhill ...

Willamina board approves hanging of tribal flag

WILLAMINA - The Willamina School Board gave its unanimous approval for a Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde flag to hang alongside the state and national flags in the high school gymnasium at its Tuesday ...

Volunteers rally to replace sewage system

Rockne Roll/News-Register##Terry Keller of Keller Excavating digs a hole for a new septic tank on Carolyn Oden’s property outside Grand Ronde on Saturday, June 20. GRAND RONDE — Carolyn ...

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