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##(March 7, 1956) Suzie, the circus elephant, doesn’t seem to mind at all when children climb on her back for a ride. At top, Carol Schenk and Mike Hyder have climbed aboard as Mike’s brother, Mark, waits his turn. The 3-year-old Indian elephant and her trainer, Wally Ross, took part in the circus sponsored by the McMinnville Lions Club at the armory.

 
Vintage N-R/Memory Lane: March 13, 2026

... landfill closes.   25 Years Ago • Go-karts went tearing around the track at the Yamhill County Fairgrounds for the first time this week, and the racing seemed to come off without a hitch. Good weather ...

Board approves Hillsboro partition

... law. “We’re just making the call the best we can on, really, a provision in the state law that’s fairly broad,” Friday told the dais. The law states the property receiving the development rights ...

3A Boys Basketball All-League Awards: Nine named to conference teams

... first-team honors as the team’s primary ball handler, while junior guard Chase Tretter contributed his fair share alongside Wald in the front court. Senior forward Deegan Tuning completed the Tigers nominees ...

Rufus Friday: Don' turn Stars and Stripes into mere message platform

Some news organizations have developed a set of values to guide their reporting journalistic values.

Most are just written down somewhere. Very few inscribe them on their walls.

 
Letters to the Editor: March 6, 2026

... days later in a special Saturday edition of Democracy Now, Amy Goodman’s 30-year-old current affairs broadcast, “Inside the negotiations, the Iranians moved significantly and offered concessions ...

Investigating the Bible: Fighting evil

... agree. In 2010, 7-year-old Kyron Horman attended Portland’s Skyline Elementary School Science Fair. There’s a picture of him there, bespectacled and with a big smile. One hour later he left the ...

Along the Street: What’s going up - Tractor Supply, Goodwill and more

... which is to be the site of a new natural foods grocery, according to city building permits. HFT Mayfair LLC of Lake Oswego, owner of the 3,600-square-foot building, is cleaning out and refurbishing the space. On ...

 
Letters to the Editor: Feb. 27, 2026

... shut down newsrooms. With November in sight, and a public that is waking up to the danger, a free and fair election is the last thing they want to see. Right on cue, our wannabe dictator is urging Republicans ...
Rachel Thompson/News-Register##McMinnville Garden Club members Judy Toliver, foreground, and background from left, Lisa Binner, Sharon Reed and Linda Velebir help repackage and label pasta and marinara sauce at the Yamhill Community Action Program food bank. YCAP Director Laverne Pitts said the food program stretches its money by buying some items in bulk. Local businesses and organizations, such as the garden club, help divide the big bags into smaller ones for distribution.

 
Stopping By: Beyond beautification

McMinnville Garden Club has flourished for a century

Ossie Bladine/News-Register##Recology Western Oregon driver Farrah Welland monitors as a recycling cart is dumped from the Shadowood neighborhood in McMinnville. Part of Oregon’s new Recycling Modernization Act is a universal collection list, so the list of materials accepted in curbside recycling will be the same everywhere in the state.

 
The new do's and don'ts of curbside recycling

... reasonable step,” said Ryann Gleason on behalf of the Oregon Winegrowers Association. “It ensures fairness for all producers across all covered products and allows the state to proceed with greater certainty ...
##(Feb. 23, 1981) Groundbreaking for the new tri-cinema on Highway 99W in north McMinnville was held last week. Partners in the project are Wayne Weiher, Stan Amundson and Dr. Harry Cure. Weiher will manage the tri-cinema, which is expected to open this summer. Contractor for the project is  Silco Construction of Tualatin.

 
Vintage N-R/Memory Lane: Feb. 27, 2026

... Years Ago -- A little before 11 o’clock Wednesday morning, the animals at the Yamhill County Fairgrounds became eerily still. “The horses all got their ears pinned back, and everything got real ...
Kirby Neumann-Rea/News-Register##Paul McKarty is a standard-issue Yamaha golf cart with the coolest name.

 
Quirk of the Week: Let’s take a drive down punny lane

... of the golf apparel website deolax.com. Names include Mulligan Mobile, Bunker Buddy, Hole-In-Fun and Fairway Flyer. Cart Blanche is clever; but the list, compared to the name Paul McKarty, is sub-par. Random ...
Rusty Rae/News-Register##McMinnville’s varsity girls gather around Sean Coste with a round of applause as he is honored for reaching 500 career wins prior to the Grizzlies game against Century on Tuesday, Feb. 24. Coste commended his players as the main reason for his tenured success.

 
Mac Girls Basketball: Grizzlies celebrate Coste's 500th win on way to 10th postseason berth

... years in McMinnville as the leader of the Grizzlies girls basketball team, Sean Coste has coached his fair share of games. After graduating from Linfield in 1988, Coste began a journey in basketball that he ...
Rachel Thompson/News-Register##Bella Elmer, co-owner of the new Velour Medical Spa on Third Street in McMinnville, reaches for an Eminence Organic Skin Care product on display. Elmer, a certified advanced aesthetician, uses the organic skincare line in the treatments she offers at the spa she opened with her husband, Grayson Elmer.

 
Along the Street: New Mac spa offers aesthetic treatments

... McMinnville Owners Melissa and Carl Posto are closing Oodles Worldwide, the Third Street shop that sells a variety of fair trade goods and items sourced from artists both local and around the world. The store started as Many ...
Rusty Rae/News-Register##Bert’s Chuckwagon owner Richard Bert greets a customer at his newly opened location — Cowboy Kitchen — at DeLashmutt Arena at the Yamhill County Fairgrounds. He’s serving burgers, hot dogs and breakfast foods with plans to add more items to the menu.

 
Bert’s opens at fairgrounds

... truck owner has opened a new non-mobile location, Bert’s Cowboy Kitchen, at the Yamhill County Fairgrounds. Richard Bert, 57, is operating from the concession area in DeLashmutt Arena. It has an outdoor ...

From The Conversation: How Washington turned adversity into triumph

This past Presidents’ Day, I was thinking about George Washington — not with respect to his finest hour, though, but possibly his worst.

 

 
Letters to the Editor: Feb. 20, 2026

... Commerce and property owners to consider the long-term health of our community, not just short-term profit. Fair, reasonable, leasing practices help preserve the unique spirit of McMinnville and ensure a thriving ...
McMinnville Water & Light##A map shows the parcels under discussion for a city and McMinnville Water & Light land swap. McMinnville plans to purchase the 26-acre parcel at the top of the map for its proposed rec center and may add five- and 12- acre parcels below it to connect to the South Yamhill River and Joe Dancer Park. MW&L is interested in the five-acre parcel on the map’s left edge for a substation expansion. The property is currently used by city public works. The pink section is 22 acres the city has leased from MW&L since 2002.

 
McMinnville, Water & Light talk larger land deal

... owned utility with its own budget and funds, so the properties would need to be sold or exchanged at fair market rates. Dietz asked commissioners if they were comfortable selling the parcels, along with an ...
Rachel Thompson/News-Register file photo##Tayah Curry holds back  Sherwood freshman Hadara Gerr during the Mac/Sherwood duals at MHS on Thursday, Feb. 5. Curry defeated Gurr via pin in 1:37. On Feb. 14, Curry became on of two Grizzlies to earn a state berth.

 
Mac's Andrew, Curry qualify for girls 6A state wrestling tournament

... over Xylia Wyatt from Aloha. Curry then defeated Southridge’s Zoe Espinoza in a low-scoring affair, forcing a pin out of a reversal to advance to the semifinals. Beaverton’s Bella Carter was Curry’s ...
Emily Bonsant/News-Register##Sarah Moldovan, the new Youth Services Librarian at the Amity Library, scans returned books. In her new position, she will oversee the annual summer reading program, which includes crafts, performances and book tracking. This year’s theme is “Plant a seed, read.”

 
Moldovan takes over youth services at Amity library

... favorite genre is Regency period dramas, with Jane Austen among her favorite authors. She also enjoys fairy tale retellings, like “Elle Enchanted” by Gail Carson Levine. It was the first book that ...
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