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Allen: No reason to give up on Yamhelas Westsider Trail
Don’t let Mary Starrett fool you about the Yamhelas trail.
Harloff: Don’t fall for idle rhetoric; let taxpayers decide on trail
It was interesting to me to read the juxtaposition of two perspectives on the Yamhelas Westsider Trail in the March 29 Viewpoints.
Letters to the Editor: April 12, 2024
... Bridge is very dangerous, even for the experienced cyclist.
The debate in the March 28 edition over the Yamhelas Trail drowns out a larger debate the city and county should be having over safe cycling access into ...
Letters to the Editor: April 5, 2024
... signs up so swiftly. We may now enjoy them in every corner of the county on every drive.If we had a Yamhelas Westsider Trail, we could see them from our bicycle seats. There is probably one just outside your bedroom ...
Yamhelas Westsider Trail, Pro: Project is worth a look with fresh eyes
Does Yamhill County’s Yamhelas Westsider Trail, proposed for former railroad right of way extending 14.8 miles north from Gun Club Road almost to Gaston, have a legitimate future?
Yamhelas Westsider Trail, Con: Trail nothing more than expensive boondoggle
Yamhill County features the perfect mix of urban and rural, with comfortably sized cities, traded sector manufacturing, thousands of acres of forest and agricultural land and communities that still value caring for each other.
Letters to the Editor: March 1, 2024
... campaign donors.
Why would commissioners do this? One reason is not wanting anyone who might favor the Yamhelas Westsider Trail.
They also refused to approve construction of a footbridge allowing public access to ...
Lindsay Berschauer files for re-election
... was elected to office in 2020, running on a campaign to end the county’s effort to create the Yamhelas Westsider Trail, and heavily funded by trail opponents. She kept that campaign promise, a month after ...
Letters to the Editor: Dec. 22, 2023
... fellow commissioners are so interested in putting something up for a vote, they should begin with the Yamhelas Westsider Trail project.
Chad Olsen
McMinnville
Failure of imagination
Israeli analysts ...
Local Perspective: Yamhill County citizens, you can defeat a giant
... big money — the giant in this story — is adamantly opposed to one trail in particular: the Yamhelas Westsider Trail winding west from McMinnville.
In 1991, the three Yamhill County commissioners in office ...
Guest commentary: Park district 'bridge builder' seeks to derail park bridge
... commissioners fear any bridge or trail successfully built in our community will weaken their case against the Yamhelas Westsider Trail, designed to follow former Union Pacific rail right of way running from just outside ...
Volunteers will clean up trail in Carlton
... owned by Yamhill County. The county purchased the strip of land when it was considering building the Yamhelas Westsider walking and biking trail.
It has been maintained by the county through the jail work release ...
Commissioners chided for opposition to parks, trails
... zones,” saying it was “The same discussion, the same painstaking process we went through with the Yamhelas Westsider Trail. All of those concerns are still there regarding the Newberg-Dundee bypass trail.”
Berschauer’s ...
Letters to the Editor: June 9, 2023
... this.
Thanks!
Lauren Sinclair
Portland
Is trail truly dead?
The last LUBA decision regarding the Yamhelas Westsider Trail was sent to Yamhill County on Dec. 30, 2020. In it, the board said, “We are not ...
Chehalem Park & Rec appeals county denial
... that the county could not build a bridge to access its own property along the route of the proposed Yamhelas Westsider Trail, because an inconsistency in the way the county’s land use zones have been written ...
Commissioners uphold denial of park footbridge
... commission’s May meeting.
The proposal to allow transportation facilities drew protests from opponents of the Yamhelas Westsider Trail. Both opponents and county commissioners have expressed opposition to various other ...
Letters to the Editor: April 7, 2023
... Malloy
McMinnville
Rail the future
I am writing to express my concern regarding lack of progress on the Yamhelas Westsider Trail.
I have been a practicing engineer and surveyor, specializing in urban development, ...
Commissioner threatens to seek dismissal of Parks Board member
... the advisory nature of the Parks Board.
“It was evident to me after the BOC foreclosed upon the Yamhelas Trail, that many of the parks board members lost their ‘north star’. Significant time and ...
Members of county parks board speak out
Two quit over claims commissioners packed the volunteer panel with unqualified appointees
