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Members of county parks board speak out

Two quit over claims commissioners packed the volunteer panel with unqualified appointees

 

Rachel Thompson/News-Register##Chehalem Creek flows through Ewing Young Park, cutting off access to 11 acres. An application to build a footbridge was denied by the county last week.

 
Park footbridge denied because of county zoning issue

... problem fixed ever since. But the effort has drawn a storm of protest from opponents of the now-defunct Yamhelas Westsider Trail. LUBA denied the trail because of the road zoning discrepancy, and opponents say they ...

Letters to the editor: February 24, 2023

... inclusion of a pedestrian trail between Newberg and Dundee be nixed from the bypass agreement. It’s Yamhelas Westsider PTSD all over again! One has to ask why these two are so afraid of bicycles. Perhaps someone ...

Political blinders keep county from finding its way forward

... any plan, program, official, agency or entity ever associated in a favorable way with the now defunct Yamhelas Westsider Trail. After all, their fervent opposition to said trail, which would have followed 17 miles ...

Commissioners remove elected officials from new harassment policy

... one.” The 2021 complaint followed months of verbal attacks on staff by Berschauer during discussions of the Yamhelas Westsider Trail. Berschauer’s election campaign was heavily financed by trail opponents, and she ...

County Planner asks commissioners to oppose a state appeal

Next for county board: wildfire mapping, which affects ADU rules

 
2022 Year in Review, Part 1: A selective look back

... Commissioner Lindsay Berschauer made enemies early in her tenure, with her immediate move to end the Yamhelas-Westsider Trail project, and her treatment of county staff during the debates over the trail, among ...

Friday issues new document to allow roads in bypass zones

Staff interpretation intends to avoid Phase 2 complications

 
Letters to the Editor: November 25, 2022

... loophole to advance the Newberg Bypass project’s Wynooski interchange without risking revival of the Yamhelas Westsider Trail. In January 2021, the commission, with newly elected Lindsay Berschauer leading the ...

Commissioners reject roads proposal sending it back to Planning Commission

Zoning question ‘has nothing to do’ with Yamhelas trail, county planning director stresses

 
Commissioners can't seem to see the forest for the trees

... what’s the rub? The court ruling was made in a case brought in connection to the since dead-and-buried Yamhelas Westsider Trail, and the trail remains a lasting stigma for commissioners who ran their campaigns on ...

Commissioners debate whether to allow public roads

LUBA ruling led to delay in county adopting permitting process

Rusty Rae/News-Register##Woman of the Year Ronni Lacroute loves and values the arts, including sculptures such as this one in her yard. The arts bring us together and make us better people, she said.

 
Distinguished Service Awards to honor community champions

... to McMinnville in 1984 to run the local Prudential office. Now retired, he continues to serve on the Yamhelas Trail Board and is an officer in the Knights of Columbus. He and his wife, Janice, are leaders in the ...

County approves UGB land swap in Dayton

... vigorous legal action to protest incursions, including an expansion of Riverbend Landfill and the proposed Yamhelas Westsider Trail, Dayton doesn’t appear likely to incur a similar fight. Sweeney said that despite ...

County budget committee approves money for suicide prevention, body cameras, parks

... request for assistance. Berchauer’s repeated public berating of Martin during debates over the Yamhelas Westsider Trail last year was cited by critics as inappropriate and one of the reasons behind their ...

Johnston touts protection of property, gun rights

... matters,” he said. At a recent candidate forum in Newberg, he discussed his opposition to the Yamhelas Westsider Trail, which the county is no longer pursuing, and his opposition to state health regulations ...

Starrett puts focus on property rights, social services

... we don’t have the funding to sustain them,” she said. She strongly opposed the popular Yamhelas Westsider Trail and voted with Berschauer to end the county’s efforts to build it, in early 2021. ...
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Berschauer avoids recall

... Health and Human Services staff. Her election campaign was heavily financed by farmers opposed to the Yamhelas Westsider Trail, and she brought a second vote to the board of commissioners to end all efforts to build ...

 
Put the focus on local issues as campaigns get underway

... degrees from lack of attention, the poster child being the virtually unusable Dayton Landing.  Yamhelas Westsider Trail Finally, the elephant in the room. Our four-member editorial board sees the proposed ...

 
Letters to the Editor: March 18, 2022

... enough County Commissioner Lindsay Berschauer seems to think she is being recalled for her opposition to the Yamhelas Westsider Trail. The truth is she is being recalled for her inability to represent the people of Yamhill ...