Lafayette plans drive-through pumpkin fest

Lafayette will host a Drive-Thru Pumpkinfest from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 17, at Joel Perkins Park. Youngsters will receive a pumpkin and a bag full of Halloween treats, while supplies last.  Wascher ...

Sparks sentenced to life without parole in 12-year-old's murder

One final time on Tuesday, family members of Lacey Renee Robancho gathered in person and by telephone to address her murderer. He was sentenced to death in 1999, but in 2017, the appeals court affirmed ...

Don Leard

Former Lafayette mayor dies

Former Lafayette mayor Don Leard, a businessman and city benefactor, died this week. He was 69. Services are pending under the direction of Attrell’s Newberg Funeral Chapel. Leard owned numerous ...

Rusty Rae/News-Register##Goularte shows off a vintage postcard he found online.

Stopping by: Lafayette's history buff delves into area's past

Greg Goularte lives in a house once occupied by Josephine Wascher, a beloved Lafayette educator who was principal of the city’s old school and namesake of the new one. “When we moved in, we ...

Rusty Rae/News-Register##Yamhill City Recorder Lori Gilmore (right) counts votes from the city s biennial caucus in July.

Filing deadlines approach for candidates in city races

Deadlines are approaching for filing for Yamhill County city offices. Candidates must file this month to run for mayor or city council openings. The last date for filing varies by city. To run for a ...

Sentencing hearing set for Sparks

A Sept. 22 sentencing hearing has been set for convicted murderer Jeffery Sparks, who has been on Oregon’s death row for 21 years. Sparks, 63, was convicted in 1999 of raping and murdering 12-year-old ...

Rusty Rae/News-Register##Lafayette City Councilor Sheila Neuman and Greg Goularte of Lafayette clear blackberry brambles from a section of the Masonic Cemetery in Lafayette Saturday morning. Volunteers ridding sections of the cemetery of overgrown blackberry vines have found a number of grave sites, including this marker for a Civil War soldier.

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 ...

Workers for K&E Excavating install a 28-inch water transmission pipeline along Highway 18. It will carry water to the Lafayette pump station. Submitted photo.

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 ...

Marcus Larson/News-Register##Johnny Edwards serves as the caretaker for the Lafayette Masonic Cemetery, where vandals recently pushed over 30 headstones, breaking a number of them. “It was a sad cemetery before,” he said. “Now, it’s even sadder.”

‘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 ...

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In one of the homes on the holiday tour, Rori Hartzell said she was going for a mid-century modern look when she
decorated this tree in mustard and black. The tree, one of six in the
house, stands in the family room upstairs.

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, ...

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