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County continues search for dog control solution
Yamhill County is in a Catch-22 situation with its dog control program. It needs to increase paltry license fee revenue collection, but to do so requires additional enforcement officers, which would be ...
A sobering message: Sheriff hopes public health campaign makes difference
Yamhill County residents have been seeing a lot of Sheriff Sam Elliott lately. He’s the face of a new Yamhill County Health and Human Services awareness campaign intended to curb driving under the ...
Muni court sees success with specialty programs
McMinnville Municipal Court has seen improvements to staffing and inmate access and introduced specialty courts in the last year, but staff needs more time for trials than the current four days per year, ...
School board position open as Towery announces resignation
The McMinnville School Board is accepting applications for a new member that will open following the resignation of Doris Towery on Sept. 30. Towery, who was elected in 2023, announced Monday night she ...
MacHabitat expands neighborhood beautification project to Lafayette
On Wednesday, Sept. 10, a group of volunteers arrived at a Bridge Street residence in Lafayette, where overproductive fruit trees littered the ground with a now-rotting harvest. Apples were rolled from ...
Marvin Bernards announces run for board of commissioners seat
Marvin Bernards on Thursday announced he is running for Yamhill County Board of Commissioners Position 1, now held by Kit Johnston. Bernards, a farmer and owner of the now-closed Bernards Farm fruit and ...
County block to be listed for $5.5; multiple offers received for health building
The Yamhill County property sell-off is underway, with three offers received for the $1.7 million former public health building and a block of buildings set to be publicly listed for $5.5 million. The ...
Carlton Crush returns after hiatus
The popular Carlton Crush harvest festival will return to Ladd Park from noon to 5 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 13, following a two-year hiatus. The festival involves a grape stomping competition for teams of ...
GFU students help help Carlton improve park during Serve Day
A dozen George Fox University students joined Carlton city workers to plant grass seed, remove non-native plants and improve wildlife habitat at a new park on South Seventh Street on Wednesday, the school’s ...
Lafayette man indicted on brandishing gun
A grand jury returned an indictment on Sept. 4 charging a Lafayette man for allegedly brandishing a firearm at four McMinnville youths on Sept. 2, as they were on walking to school. Jessy James Feltus, ...
Concert offers chance to donate school supplies
A concert featuring hip-hop and other styles of music will raise money and bring in school supplies on Sunday, Sept. 14. Organized by musician Ryan “Rizzle” Adams, “Rizzle’s Giveback” ...
One of the Oregon’s leading economic observers says state’s growth is over
As Oregon’s political and business leaders prepared for a summit later this year, they asked John Tapogna, the former president of the consulting firm ECOnorthwest, to survey the state’s current condition and take a look at its future. What Tapogna found is sobering—more Oregonians are dying than being born, and those being born are entering an educational system where test scores have plummeted, despite new spending. In short, the boom days are over.
Memorial plaque to remain in place at Dayton High School
Dayton School Board members affirmed keeping a plaque honoring the late Ethan Kearns, a Dayton High athlete who died of cancer in June 2024. Several people spoke in favor of the memorial at the board’s ...
More emerald ash borers found in Yamhill County
A second emerald ash borer infestation has been detected in north Yamhill County, as the Oregon agencies continue to sound alarms over the spread of the invasive pest that has killed millions of ash trees ...
Arrests & Citations: Sept. 12, 2025
Yamhill County Sheriff’s Office Mathew Everett Maul, 37, Portland, Sept. 9, Washington County hold, Multnomah County hold, probation violation; booked into the Yamhill County Jail on $10,000 bail. Robert ...
Amity council approves city’s first EV pole charger
The Amity City Council approved a location for a Portland Pacific Electric Vehicle pole charger at its Sept. 3 regular meeting. EV pole chargers are cylindrical charging containers placed on power poles. ...
Amity man pleads guilty to sex crimes against six girls
William James Beam, 27, of Amity pleaded guilty to rape, sodomy and sexual abuse charges involving six minor victims over a four-year period on Tuesday, Sept. 9, and was sentenced to 18 months in jail. Following ...
DEQ issues $1 million civil penalty against Sheridan wood treater
The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality on Monday, Sept. 8, issued a $1 million civil penalty against the Sheridan wood treatment facility owned by Stella-Jones Corporation, a multinational Canadian ...
Quirk of the Week: Collection of county curiosities
Pasture boat, bear on a log, quizzical owl are stops on an imaginative route We start another around-the-county Quirk tour back where we left off last week, in Dayton. At the city’s dormant Palmer ...
