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Heritage Center’s Hay Day/Play Day features old-fashioned fun, learning

... than 150 years into the area’s agricultural past. It also will explore leisure activities the county’s early residents engaged in, including early baseball games. Hay Day/Play Day will run from ...

Lack of indictment leads to sex charges dismissed

... May 18, following a short foot pursuit in northeast McMinnville. In a probable cause statement Yamhill County Sheriff Deputies claim Storm resisted officers even when tased. On Wednesday, an arraignment on the ...

Jeb Bladine: Oregon likely to change tourism funding split

... guarantee of 70 percent to “at least 40 percent” for tourism, leaving up to 60 percent for city/county services. As reference, the city of McMinnville’s 2025-26 budget proposal shows an expectation ...

Investigating the Bible: Mistakes in judgment

When Mike Huckabee was the governor of Arkansas, his 12-year-old son decided to bake a cake. The rest of the family left on a shopping trip and when they returned he proudly showed his father the cake, which looked delicious. Huckabee bit into a forkful of the dessert and quickly spit it out.

Rusty Rae/News-Register##Oregon Brews & BBQ brought family fun to the Yamhill County Fairgrounds last weekend. The event included fare from a number of barbecue eateries and local brewers, as well as music and activities for all ages. Gunner Sharp and Margo Corres of Hillsboro checked out the games area while the music played. A portion of the annual event’s proceeds go to the American Legion and Wounded Warrior Project.

 
Summer event season underway

... visitors will find an abundance of things to do under the sun in McMinnville and other parts of Yamhill County. MacFresco will run Fridays through Sundays until September in downtown McMinnville. Third Street will ...

Local leadership split over proposed lodging tax changes

... tourism promotion or “tourism-related facilities,” and the remaining 30% can go to city or county general funds. HB 3962 would change the split to 40% for tourism and 60% for local municipalities. ...

Peace pole planted in Carlton's Ladd Park

... Grand Ronde. Newberg Rotary planted the pole, the first in Carlton but one of more than 100 in Yamhill County. Peace poles also stand in McMinnville, Dayton, Lafayette, Dundee and Newberg -- the latter city has ...
Rachel Thompson/News-Register##Willamette Valley Vineyards’ tasting room has been a popular spot on Third Street for 15 years. It will close Friday, June 27, but WVV’s Domaine Willamette winery and tasting room near Dayton will remain open.

 
Willamette Valley Vineyards tasting room to close

... which focuses on sparkling varieties, will remain open as the company’s flagship site in Yamhill County. Willamette Valley Vineyards also has tasting rooms at its estate vineyard just south of Salem, near ...

Arrests & Citations: June 20, 2025

Yamhill County Sheriff’s Office Raymond Matthew Bonaventura, 52, Newberg, June 16, probation violation, booked ...
Taylor Carnahan swings at a pitch during Mac s 13-1 summer league victory over Newberg.
Rusty Rae/News-Register

 
Mac baseball resumes winning ways in summer ball

... going 5-0 through their first third of games against primarily other high school teams from Yamhill County and the Portland area. On Wednesday, they captured their fifth win, a 13-1 run-rule victory over Newberg ...
Kolby Wofford (No. 78) blocks for his running back Stephen Macias (No.11) as he dashes to the right side of the line of scrimmage in Dayton’s 16-0 win on the road at Amity. 
Rachel Thompson/News-Register file photo

 
Dayton lineman Wofford named to team Willamette in Les Schwab Bowl

... ignore. He was named first-team all-state, first-team all-area, first-team all-region, first-team all-county and first-team all-conference for his contributions on the Pirates’ offensive and defensive lines. On ...
Kirby Neumann-Rea/News-Register##That’s Clyde on the sign at Screamin’ Chicken Diner along Highway 47 in Gaston

 
Quirk of the Week: Winging it this week

... something that’s an example of quirk — an oddity that adds to the joy of life in Yamhill County? Email Kirby Neumann-Rea at kirby@newsregister.com.
Rachel Thompson/News-Register##Carlton firefighter Talen Bailey works to suppress hot spots in the smoldering remains of a house on Old Soldiers Road west of Carlton that burned early Wednesday morning in a two-alarm fire.

 
Another house lost to fire near Carlton

... intersection of Meadow Lake and Shelton roads. Property owner Ken Summers, a retired police chief and Yamhill County Sheriff’s Office captain who lives in Newberg, said they bought the property in 1984 and built ...

 
Shirley Marie Bushman 1936 - 2025

... moved to California, where she loved working as a nurse’s aide at St. Joseph Hospital in Orange County. That same year, she married her husband, Bill Bushman. They shared 54 years together until his passing ...

 
Minnetta "Min" Elizabeth Coburn 1923 - 2025

... current events and served in many organizations: Lion’s Auxiliary, League of Women Voters, Yamhill County Human Relations Council, and Yamhill County Juvenile Advisory Board. She was a tireless advocate for ...

 
Richard W. Blenkinsop 1931 - 2025

... Pleasanton, California, where their third son, Gregory, was born. After Pleasanton, the family moved to Orange County, California, where Dick worked for Western Metal Lath, eventually becoming president of the company. ...

Grand Ronde man dies in Hwy 18 crash

... said the cause of the crash is still under investigation. The agency was assisted by Polk and Yamhill county sheriff’s offices.

 
ICE detainee taken to Arizona facility

Newberg resident and vineyard services business owner Moises Sotelo-Casas has been transported by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement from a detention center in Tacoma, Washington, to one in Florence, Arizona, according to ICE’s online detainee locator search.

 

Rachel Thompson/News-Register##Protesters gather outside the McMinnville Public Library at on June 14, for the  No Kings  protest in opposition to President Donald Trump and his policies.

 
Locals show support for immigrants in ‘No Kings’ demonstration

... “our people came here to work. They came here for a dream.” With ICE’s presence in Yamhill County confirmed, Morales said several members of the immigrant community are concerned to go in public places. ...
News-Register file photo##Friday is the opening day of MacFresco, which closes Third Street to car traffic on summer weekends to make way for outdoor shopping and dining.

 
Along the Street: MacFresco returns with Make Music

... 25,000-square-foot building at East Mountainview Drive and Villa Road, will serve residents of Newberg and Yamhill County. “I see NELA as the beginning of a cornerstone for how we continue to support families in our ...
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