After transporting horses from evacuation zones near the Beachie Creek and Powerline fires, Michelle Ladd returned to her home on Bald Peak Road last Tuesday.
She was unhooking her horse trailer when ...
When winemaker Mark Vlossak started his day Tuesday, he assumed his alarm clock was wrong. It was pitch-black outside.
But the clock was accurate, and he was seeing Oregon’s worst fire season in ...
At McMinnville Montessori School, teacher Dominique Bjorlin will add a song to the repertoire for her pre-school students this fall: a tune about how to wear a face mask.
The mask song is one component ...
Lovetta Dill told her friends she was going out for some “rational radicalism.”
On Saturday morning, the gray-haired, lifelong McMinnville resident sat in a lawn chair in front of the McMinnville ...
A few weeks ago, a friend encouraged Bryce Coefield to run for a recently vacated Newberg City Council seat.
“That’s nice, but no thanks,” Coefield thought to himself.
Then, a co-worker ...
In 2015, Jessica Haney bought her first home in Newberg. The therapist and her three children were cleaning before moving in when a new neighbor stopped by.
Instead of welcoming her, the woman said, “You ...
As teenagers in southern Oregon, Kathy Cole and her siblings longed to learn chinuk wawa, one of the first common languages of the Pacific Northwest. Their father was always proud of being Native American ...
If you’re glued to Instagram while walking on Third Street, you might miss several photo-worthy sidewalk paintings directly beneath your feet.
At the corner of Third and Ford streets, two glasses ...
Last November, Miriam Vargas Corona missed her youngest son’s first birthday.
She had a life-changing excuse. She had traveled to Mexico, the country of her birth, to complete the paperwork to collect ...
Ed and Phimphakan Tate spent the winter in Thailand, only to see their flight home canceled as they stood in line at the airport when the coronavirus pandemic began. They made it out of the country in ...
Dayton native Omar Sandoval wasn’t predicting a career in politics or government when he applied for a fellowship with immigrant rights’ group Movimiento Cosecha in 2018, yet it started his ...
Joe had been camping between Newberg and Lafayette for several weeks. He was without a home and staying in the woods, trying to avoid contact with people amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
On a day he went into ...
The COVID-19 pandemic struck as a record number of working families in Yamhill County already were struggling to afford housing, child care and other basics, according to a new study by the United ...
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Growing up in Yamhill County, adopted into a white family, Shai Sesay McDonough didn’t celebrate Juneteenth. She learned about the holiday only ...
McMinnville resident Sandra Robledo was poised to take her oath of citizenship in March, more than 15 years after arriving from Mexico with her husband.
But during that month, the COVID-19 pandemic hit ...
Growing up in Yamhill County, adopted into a white family, Shai Sesay McDonough didn’t celebrate Juneteenth. She only learned about the holiday when she began researching Black history on her own ...
In March, after a co-worker worried aloud about having contracted COVID-19, county health care worker Erika Escobar’s life became a routine of showering immediately after work and diligently sanitizing ...
McMinnville Cinema will reopen Friday, June 12, with a limited schedule of two showings daily of each movie.
The selections include classics such as “The Goonies” and more recent releases ...
