Volunteers discover graves during cemetery cleanup in Lafayette
More than a dozen people sprucing up the Lafayette Masonic Cemetery found something unexpected: forgotten graves. While clearing blackberry vines from the hilltop cemetery’s west side on July 18, ...
Mac school district planning for in-person and distance learning
McMinnville and Lafayette students are expected to return to school in September using a combination of in-person and distance-learning classes or a comprehensive distance program. Most parents ...
Lafayette to buy Mac water
A new water transmission line between McMinnville and Lafayette, a project decades in the making, is expected to be operational by the end of the month. Water & Light’s board of directors, led ...
‘Beauty destroyed’: Vandals wreak havoc at Lafayette Masonic Cemetery
Johnny Edwards, caretaker and sexton at the Lafayette and McMinnville Masonic cemeteries, said he’s been “traipsing around headstones” since he was in his early 20s. He simply enjoys ...
Mayors, council seats up for election in November
Voters in cities around Yamhill County will elect council members and, in most cases, mayors in the Nov. 3 general election. Candidates can start filing in McMinnville, Newberg and most other cities this ...
Lafayette planners review 238-lot subdivision
The Lafayette Planning Commission will consider a request Thursday for annexation of 40 acres into the city, part of a 60-acre site on which a developer wants to build a 238-lot subdivision. Twenty of ...
Lafayette, Dayton offer mutual aid to businesses, residents
The cities of Dayton and Lafayette are offering local residents the opportunity to help themselves while supporting local businesses through utility relief programs. In Dayton, residents may turn in up ...
Oregon announces first presumptive case of coronavirus
Oregon anounced its first presumptive case of novel coronavirus Friday evening. An adult resident of Washington County experienced symptoms of COVID-19 beginning Feb. 19, and a sample was collected ...
Tickets still available for home tour
Five local homes will be decorated to the nines for the 31st annual Wine Country Holiday Home Tour, a fundraiser for Soroptimist International of McMinnville. The tour will run from noon to 4 pm. Sunday, ...
Two package theft suspects charged
Two package theft suspects have been charged by the Yamhill County Sheriff's Office with theft. They were identified as Jeffrey Michael Blickenstaff, 49, of Lafayette, and Samuel Cloyd Ice, ...
Carlton resident allegedly burglarizes Trappist Abbey
A Carlton transient was arrested Tuesday in connection with a burglary and theft at Our Lady of Guadalupe Trappist Abbey, 9000 block of N.E. Abbey Road, north of Lafayette. Brent Adam Cordie, 25, was ...
Lafayette resident dies in state DOC custody
UMATILLA - A Lafayette man, who was sentenced to 60 months in prison four months ago, died Sunday afternoon at the Two Rivers Correctional Institution, according to the state Department of Corrections. He ...
Head-on crash reported on Highway 99W north of Lafayette
LAFAYETTE - Law enforcement and medical personnel responded about 8:30 a.m. Tuesday to a reported two-vehicle head-on crash north of Lafayette on Highway 99W. The crash involved a vehicle and tractor-trailer ...
Lafayette man dies in crash
SHERWOOD - A Lafayette man was killed Sunday night in a two-vehicle head-on crash on Southwest Roy Rogers Road, south of Bull Mountain road, in rural Sherwood. The Washington County Sheriff's ...
