Sheridan High School was teeming with excitement 6 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 10, as Mayor Cale George presented a state of the city address, an event where local organizations, nonprofits and government had ...
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News & Features
Reporter Emily Bonsant joins News-Register staff
The News-Register has a new reporter, Emily Bonsant, who will be covering courts, local politics and heading up the newspapers new public access team. Bonsant (pronounced beau-sung), originally from Spokane ...
DMV voter flub affects county rolls
A total of 39 potential non-citizens were mistakenly registered to vote in Yamhill County and have since been removed from voter rolls, according to County Clerk Keri Hinton. Last month, the Department ...
Mac Mayorship: Incumbent Remy Drabkin cites successes as she seeks another term
McMinnville Mayor Remy Drabkin faces her first challenge in the November election after being appointed interim mayor and running unopposed in 2022. Drabkin points to her experience and track record as ...
Mac enters third year of program to monitor mercury in waterways
The city of McMinnville recently completed the second year of a state-mandated program to monitor mercury levels in waterways. Engineering staff provided an update to City Council Wednesday on the plan, ...
Mac Mayorship: Kim Morris points to her political involvement, calls for accountability
Rising concerns over public safety in her hometown led an already busy Kim Morris into political involvement two years ago. Morris now seeks her first elected office, that of mayor of McMinnville. The ...
Deputy DA Kate Lynch running unopposed, poised to take office
Yamhill Deputy District Attorney Kate Lynch is running unopposed for district attorney on the Nov. 5 General Election ballot, and will replace long-serving DA Brad Berry. Lynch earned a Juris Doctorate ...
At town hall, Sheridan mayor gives wide-ranging report
Sheridan High School was teeming with excitement 6 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 10, as Mayor Cale George presented a state of the city address, an event where local organizations, nonprofits and government had ...
Documentary looks at a newspaper’s challenges
A documentary to be screened in McMinnville gives an up-close and personal look at the challenges facing newspaper publishers in the 21st century. The film “For the Record,” showing at 7 p.m. ...
Calendar of Quirk: An archipelago of oddities found in and around downtown public buildings
A theme of a different color this week: public buildings. Our government buildings are no less quirky than other facilities. These locations are all within a few blocks of each other in downtown McMinnville: Oct. ...
Newberg man given lengthy sentence for sex crimes
A Newberg man was sentenced Monday to 345 months, nearly 30 years, in prison for sex crimes against three minor girls, who were under the age of 14 at the time. Kinston Patrick Cordell Renegar, ...
Stopping By: Friends with all the world
Mac Plaza owner folds love of people, food and dancing into a welcoming place
Court Records: Oct. 18, 2024
CIVIL FILINGS Accelerated Inventory Management vs, Sara McGraw, McMinnville: Granted $4,044.20 judgment. LVNV Funding vs. Tammy Holt, Sheridan: Granted $850.07 judgment. Midland Credit Management vs. ...
McMinnville to start leaf pick-up Oct. 21
City of McMinnville Public Works crews will begin the annual leaf pick-up program Oct. 21. The service runs through Jan. 5, 2025 and is free to residents every third week and begins each week on ...
Arrests & Citations: Oct. 18, 2024
Yamhill County Sheriff’s Office Anne Marie Taylor, 51, McMinnville, Oct. 14, failure to appear; booked into the Yamhill County Jail without bail. Jayden Matthew Otte, 19, McMinnville, Oct. 14, ...
Yamhill fire board treasurer quits as turmoil continues
A resignation, a staff member quitting, formal firing of the chief and other developments marked an eventful meeting Monday at Yamhill fire hall. The board met in an executive session Oct. 9 and then ...
Student to connect with space station
A student will set up a link with the International Space Station and talk with astronaut Sunita Williams Friday from the Carlton Observatory at Evergreen on the Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum campus. Zeke ...
Dayton to discuss manager finalists
Dayton City Council will meet in executive session at 9:30 a.m. Friday, Oct. 18, to discuss city manager finalists. They may return to open session to approve a contract with one of them. The council ...
Linfield Gallery show features art prints from Mullowney Press
“A Democracy of Multiples: Recent Print Publications from the Studio of Mullowney Printing” will be featured in the Linfield Gallery in the Miller Fine Arts Center at Linfield University from ...
Dayton, Carlton to fill council seats
General election coverage continues in this edition, with responses by candidates for contested positions on the ballot for Dayton and Carlton. Dayton voters will fill three council seats, choosing from ...
Moser pleads guilty to 10 counts of burgarly and theft
Elizabeth Ellece Moser, 45, of Newberg, pleaded guilty Tuesday to 10 counts of theft and burglary charges, admitting to her part of a two-person property crime and theft spree in November of last year. Moser ...
Sports
Sheridan football loses shootout to Vernonia/Jewell
Sheridan football topped its scoring output for the season with 46, but was unable to get the win on homecoming weekend. The Spartans fell 62-46 to visiting Vernonia/Jewell on Friday, Oct. 11. The ...
Pirates wait and see after finishing league campaign 5-0-2 in seven contests
Dayton boys soccer put themselves in the best possible place to secure a piece of conference gold. After starting the season 2-2 against non-league foes, the Pirates went on a tear, finishing ...
Linfield improves to 4-1 with 47-14 win over Lewis & Clark on homecoming weekend
The No. 23 Wildcats started slow, but ultimately improved to 2-0 in the Northwest Conference with a thorough 47-14 win over Lewis & Clark on Saturday, Oct. 12, in front of a raucous homecoming crowd. ...
Football: Tigers prepare for final regular season road game against Banks on Friday
Since a 30-6 loss to Santiam Christian on Friday, Sept. 13, Yamhill Carlton has been on a heater. The Tigers have ripped off four straight victories, three of which came on the road, to improve ...
In a tale of two halves, Mac football falls to Newberg 24-2
McMinnville football was unable to follow up its emotional homecoming win with a road victory at Newberg on Friday. The Grizzlies lost 24-21 to the Tigers, falling behind 21-7 in the first half ...
Amity football falls to Santiam Christian 28-20
Amity came into Friday night’s matchup against Santiam Christian red-hot and rolling. The Warriors were 3-0 with blowouts of 2A Jefferson and Scio in their past two wins. The Eagles presented ...
Valley Panthers A team splits contests in Bend
The Valley Panthers girls rugby team migrated over the Cascade Range into new climes, getting the chance to see other rugby squads in a new habitat. Both of the A team’s games were close: ...
Football: Yamhill Carlton downs Kennedy 12-7
Yamhill Carlton picked up what is unquestionably its biggest win of the year so far on Thursday night. The Tigers went to Kennedy High School in Mount Angel on Sept. 26 and walked out with a 12-7 ...
Pirates sunk by Taft
Dayton’s up and down start to the season continues. After winning big the previous weekend against Newport, the Pirates came into homecoming weekend looking for another win over a rival ...
Mac volleyball downs Newberg, Forest Grove
McMinnville volleyball finds itself in a position it hasn’t since the COVID-shortened Spring 2021 season: 5-0 against league foes to start the season. This week McMinnville swept Newberg ...
Dayton falls half-game back of Santiam Christian in league
Dayton’s unbeaten streak stops at 11 games. The Pirates came up short in a road clash with Santiam Christian 3-1 (25-18, 25-22, 23-25, 25-23) on Tuesday, Sept. 24, falling to 11-1. While ...
Alexander Chitty bows out at Drive, Chip & Putt regionals
For the third year in a row, McMinnville’s Alexander Chitty came within millimeters of making it to the Drive, Chip & Putt national finals at Augusta National. Instead, he’ll have ...
Mac boys soccer falls to Franklin 2-1
McMinnville boys soccer finds itself on the wrong end of 2-1 game once again. The Grizzlies fell to No. 1 Beaverton 2-1 on Thursday, Sept. 19 in a road contest, their first setback of the season. ...
Memory Lane sports 09/27/24
10 years ago For the black and red partisans at Wortman Stadium, Friday night was an opportunity for the McMinnville football team to claim its first victory of 2014. Friday night was a shot at inserting ...
Football: Returning Wilson shines in Mac loss
In McMinnville football’s first road trip of the season, the Grizzlies came up just short 38-28 against Central Valley Conference denizen West Salem. McMinnville fell behind early 12-0, ...
Yamhill Carlton football overcomes Rainier 35-8
Junior tight end Gus Brunner found himself in familiar and unusual territory on Friday, Sept. 20 in Yamhill Carlton’s 35-8 home win over Rainier. The bruising back found himself sharing ...
Valley Panthers field two teams at recent 7s competition
With their roster ballooning to 27 players, the Valley Panthers fielded an A and a B squad for the first official rugby sevens game day of the season on Saturday at Laurin Middle School in Vancouver, ...
Linfield smokes Redlands 45-0
Linfield (2-1) bounced back from a tough loss to Wisconsin-Oshkosh last week with a comprehensive 45-0 win over the SCIAC’s Redlands on Saturday, Sept. 21. The Wildcats scored all 45 points ...
Schedules: Dayton soccer teams stay unbeaten in league
Both of Dayton’s soccer teams started the league campaign off avoiding defeat at the hands of Gervais. The Dayton girls beat the Gervais/Kennedy cooperative team 2-0 on Thursday, Sept. 19; ...
No. 1 Dayton volleyball downs wily Willamina
Dayton volleyball entered its league clash against Willamina on Tuesday, Sept. 17 the No. 1 3A volleyball squad in the state. Ultimately, the Pirates swept the Bulldogs 3-0 (25-14, 25-22, 25-7), ...
