Volunteers spruce up Carlton pocket park
Volunteers spent several hours Saturday clearing and trimming in Carlton’s pocket park on Seventh Street. The small open space is located below street level next to Hawn Creek. Accessible via a ...
Jamhill fills Yamhill with music
Community members tapped their toes and clapped their hands to tunes by a variety of musicians Saturday during “Jamhill,” a first-time festival in Yamhill. More than a dozen groups played ...
Paving on Carlton Main Street starts Monday
Paving work on West Main Street in Carlton will create traffic changes starting Monday, Aug. 24. The Oregon Department of Transportation announced construction will lead to single-lane closures with flaggers ...
Two musical events planned this month
Two musical festivals are planned this month in the Yamhill Carlton area, one new and the other a tradition. Carlton Music for Hope will return Saturday, Aug. 15, with a full day of live performances ...
Longtime Yamhill leader Jim Phillips dies
Jim Phillips, well-known in the Yamhill area for his more than four decades with the local fire department and as co-chairman of Derby Days, died Friday, July 31, in his home. He was 70. Arrangements ...
Night Out events planned around Yamhill County
Several Yamhill County cities will host community parties on National Night Out, Tuesday, Aug. 4. National Night Out is an annual celebration intended to build community relationships with local law enforcement ...
Derby Days brings out Yamhill’s community spirit as residents gather for races and more
Community members and visitors — many of them former residents who returned just for Yamhill Derby Days — packed Beulah Park Saturday, July 18, to play bingo, browse booths, watch traditional ...
Lucky Duck features Hayward team
Revel Meat Company’s Jimmy Serlin cooked up the name “Lucky Duck” for the new shop he, his wife, Hayward chef Kari Shaughnessy, and Hayward hospitality director Jules Bandy just opened ...
Fair expected to be biggest yet
The Yamhill County Board of Commissioners received an update Thursday on what is expected to be one of the bigger county fairs in history. “We are busting at the seams, the barns are going ...
YFPD dissolves Flying M substation
The Yamhill Fire Protective District has dissolved the Flying M substation following the June board meeting. Equipment will be removed from the substation on Aug. 1. The future of the substation had ...
Utopia for bees: Volunteers create Carlton garden for pollinators
Bees hover over bright yellow and purple flowers in Carlton’s new pollinator garden, a tiny but busy space in the center of the community. Residents voted at the recent Fun Days festival ...
Derby Days: frogs, races and fun
Yamhill’s annual festival, Derby Days, will return Friday and Saturday, July 17-18, with all the usual fun and frogs. A frog jumping contest is one of the highlights of the festival, which is built ...
Yamhill Fire responds to clover field fire
In the late afternoon of Monday, July 6, the Yamhill Fire Protection District responded to a fire that burned approximately 1.5 acres of cut clover. “The fire is believed to have originated from ...
The voice of Fun Days
Surrounded by Fun Days activities, parade announcer David Blanchard may have been having the most fun of all. Blanchard, a Carlton resident since 1974, looks forward to repeating his role every June. ...
