Adam Garvin, a third-generation McMinnville businessman, is running for a second term on the city council in an effort to maintain the city’s livability and ensure residents can comfortably work ...
City council candidate Brittany Ruiz’s husband, Javier Ruiz, used the public comment portion of Tuesday’s McMinnville city council meeting to lambast councilor Sal Peralta, criticizing his ...
At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, farmworker Carlos Ramirez didn’t take the virus risk too seriously. He treated it like something of a joke, he said, until it started infecting people he ...
Nine residents are vying for four seats on the Lafayette city council in the Nov. 3 general election, while the current council president is running without opposition for mayor.
The council is ...
When Chris Chenoweth moved to McMinnville at age 12, it took him a while to adjust. It didn’t compare with his former home outside Seattle and other students picked on him. But fairly soon, he fell ...
In August 2008, Lisa McCracken had recently left the Navy and settled into her new role supporting disabled veterans searching for employment. The following month, the stock market crashed, and she suddenly ...
McMinnville Mayor Scott Hill and challenger Heidi Parker described two different visions of city leadership at recent candidate forums organized by Yamhill County Republican Women and the McMinnville Lions ...
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 ...
