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Letters to the editor: May 14, 2021

... government, the board of commissioners must rescind its harmful actions terminating development of the Yamhelas Westsider Trail and enforcement of gun safety laws. This message was recently communicated to the board ...

Funds from Rescue Act boost county’s budget

... asked how much of the attorneys’ time would be freed up by the county’s decision to end the Yamhelas Westsider Trail. Initially, Boenisch told her, none. “So I can tell you that none of the outside ...

Berschauer withdraws demand for trail bridge engineering audit

... with the manager of the contractor the county hired to build a bridge over Stag Hollow Creek for the Yamhelas Westsider Trail, Yamhill County Commissioner Lindsay Berschauer told her colleagues last week that she ...

 
Letters to the editor: April 30, 2021

... seeking to potentially take over ownership of the former rail corridor eyed as as prospective route of the Yamhelas Westsider Trail, sets up an interesting test for County Commissioners Lindsay Berschauer and Mary Starrett: Are ...

Ruiz: Why should we have to pay for transparency?

... decisions. Case in point: The county is now on the hook to pay more than$50,000 in attorney’s fees due to a Yamhelas Westsider Trail approval by Commissioners Kulla and Olson that the current board is no long willing ...

Commissioners considering ending trail master plan work

Yamhill County Commissioners last week proposed ending a master plan for the Yamhelas Westsider Trail, but delayed a vote so staff can again ask Oregon Department of Transportation if doing ...

 
Kulla: Reform Oregon land use to make system fair and just

... steadily expanded the types of crop processing allowed on farmland over the years. 4) Development of the Yamhelas Westsider Trail on former railroad right-of-way acquired by the county specifically for that purpose. A ...

Board seeks grant audit; says no to LUBA appeal

... forensic audit of county staff’s handling of a state grant for the bridge intended to serve the Yamhelas Westsider Trail. However, they said, they would not support an appeal in defense of county attorney ...

Gun law sanctuary approved; commissioners continue trail debate

... only state laws. Commissioners are continuing to discuss whether to proceed with a master plan for the Yamhelas Westsider Trail, and various other matters related to the ownership of the trail. Last week, after ...

Letters to the editor: March 26, 2021

... affordable housing, the pandemic or climate change, Commissioners BS are focusing on the biggies: Killing the Yamhelas Westsider Trail project and designating Yamhill County as a gun sanctuary — because, as we all ...

ODOT turns down invite to negotiate repayment with board

... how the county will repay more than $687,000 in grant money intended to pay for bridges serving the Yamhelas Westsider Trail. Commissioners, led by Lindsay Berschauer, said last week they wanted to hold those ...
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State begins seeking trail grant replacement

... wants to begin negotiations of the repayment of $687,000 in grant funds used on the now-discontinued Yamhelas Westsider Trail.  Meanwhile, County Administrator Ken Huffer told commissioners during a Thursday ...

Yamhelas trail supporters plead to keep plan alive

... residents recently wrote letters to county commissioners urging them to finish the master plan of the Yamhelas Westsider Trail.  Commissioners, who last month discontinued a conditional use permit to build ...

Letters to the editor: Feb. 19, 2021

... at the Feb. 4 meeting where she and colleague Mary Starrett killed plans for the popularly supported Yamhelas Westsider Trail. I and a number of my fellow citizens showed up because we were appalled to see Berschauer ...

Chehelam Parks & Recreation pursuing bypass trail

... Commissioner Mary Starrett to say the county is “reeling” from the decision to cancel the Yamhelas Westsider Trail and mistakes she believes had occurred in the grant process for that project. Starrett ...

Tourism partnership ends on sour note, blames commissioners in letter

... also pointed to Starrett and Berschauer’s “lack of support and politicizing” of the Yamhelas Westsider Trail. “It further draws attention to fact that the visitor economy carries little ...

Letters to the editor: Feb. 12, 2021

... commissioners I want to praise Commissioners Starrett and Berschauer for finally ending development of the Yamhelas Westsider Trail. It took great courage for them to stop the project in the face of backlash from a ...

Trail decision a detriment to parks system needing vision

... County Commissioner Casey Kulla captured our reaction to the fierce, expensive and ultimately successful Yamhelas Westsider Trail opposition almost perfectly in a post-decision post. “It truly amazes me,” ...

Berschauer conduct is indefensible

We were not surprised to see the Yamhelas Westsider Trail rejected on a 2-1 vote by the county commissioners Thursday. After all, Mary Starrett ...
Marcus Larson/News-Register##A group showed up in front of the Yamhill County Courthouse Thursday to show support for Commissioners Lindsay Berschauer and Mary Starrett. A different group planned a protest against Berschauer s treatment of staff during deliberations about the Yamhelas Westsider trail, but those plans were canceled due to safety concerns, organizer said.

 
Berschauer, Starrett supporters gather; critics cancel protest

... Berschauer, whom the group said behaved inappropriately toward county staff over two weeks of debate about the Yamhelas Westsider Trail. The group canceled the event after seeing 40 or 50 people showed up in support of ...
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