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 ...
Local News
BALLOTS DUE TODAY: Voters to decide school board seats, McMinnville fire district merger
Updated 5/16/23 Ballots for the May election are due by 8 p.m. today, May 16. If mailed, they must be postmarked by today's date, and must arrive at the Yamhill County Elections Division within seven ...
Along the Street July 1
What’s going upn Work continues on the new branch of First Federal bank at Highway 99W and McDaniel Lane in McMinnville. The branch will open later this year, replacing one on Baker Creek Road.The ...
Proposal for hotel in Carlton withdrawn
The company, based in the Carlton area, said Tuesday that its decision came following a public meeting last month in which dozens of people commented on the proposed project, both in favor and against.
Carlton sewer lagoons full because of recent rains
Because recent rains have filled up Carlton’s sewer lagoons, the city is pumping partially treated effluent into the adjacent swale and North Yamhill River, Public Works Director Bryan Burnham said. The ...
Gift shop closed for fire-related remodeling
NW Food & Gifts, 445 N.E. Third St., will be closed through Jan. 21 to finish up remodeling made necessary by last May’s fire in the Third Street Pizza building next door. Owner James Tate said ...
Deputy involved in four-vehicle crash
A Yamhill County Sheriff’s Office deputy was involved in a four-vehicle crash the morning of Tuesday, Jan. 9, according to the Oregon State Police. The crash was reported shortly before 8 a.m. on ...
Some schools later, others closed, as ice melts slowly
Updated 2:30 Thursday There is a chance of freezing rain in the early morning hours on Friday, between 4 and 7. The temperature is expected to drop to 32 degrees, which may lead to icy conditions on already ...
Weather forecast means shelters are open
The McMinnville Fire District has posted a list of overnight and day shelters planning to be open this week in light of freezing temperatures. Overnight shelters McMinnville First Baptist Church, 125 ...
City council 'safe school zones' was hot topic Tuesday
Frustration was evident at Tuesday’s McMinnville City Council meeting, both from residents over the dangers of homeless camps near schools and from the dais over the inability to change the situation. Prior ...
Following Monday storm, temps to drop into the 20s – or lower
High winds and heavy rains Monday night left some 20,000 people without power by morning, according to Portland General Electric spokeswoman Allison Dobscha. There were at least six outages in Yamhill ...
County to decide whether Rvs should be allowed as housing
Coming up later this month, the Yamhill County Board of Commissioners will decide whether to allow residential recreational vehicles in rural residential zones. County Planning Director Ken Friday said ...
Mac applies for early literacy money
The McMinnville School District will apply for $800,000 from the state over two years to improve early learning programs. The school board Monday night approved a plan for spending the funds. Grants ...
Amity School Board will now meet Jan. 17
The Amity School board will meet Wednesday, Jan. 17, at 6 p.m., in the district office, and not a scheduled earlier date. The board will discuss and, in all likelihood, vote on a 2024-25 student calendar ...
Fox Ridge plan nears adoption
The McMinnville Planning Commission last week recommended adoption of the Fox Ridge area plan, but there is confusion among residents over what the plan entails. Area plans are part of a multi-step city ...
YC board to meet Thursday
The Yamhill Carlton School District board will meet at 6 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 11, in the district office, 120 N. Larch Place, Yamhill. The meeting will be available by Zoom, as well as in person; call the ...
Calendar of Quirk: From ‘elfin’ to stolen
Calendar of Quirk began Jan. 3 and continues with a couple of beacons shining red and orange, in McMinnville and Amity: Jan. 8. -- Vintage on Third, 228 N.E. Third, removed the awning from its storefront ...
Sewer main breaks in Carlton
Carlton Public Works staff are working to stop the flow of sewage from a main line that broke Thursday, Dec. 7, on East Main Street near the 600 block. The break has allowed sewage to spill. The city ...
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), ...
Features
Easter egg hunts planned Saturday
Get out your Easter baskets — and waterproof shoes — for Easter egg hunts in most Yamhill County cities this Saturday, April 8. Fire departments, service clubs and civic groups plan to hide ...
Stopping By: A creative place
It’s always the season for planting and growing at Incahoots, a business that thrives on change
Nostalgic comedy ‘Harvey’ opens March 31 at Gallery
Will audiences see the title character in “Harvey,” the nostalgic comedy that opens Friday, March 31, at Gallery Theater? Director Steve Cox won’t say. But he is betting theatergoers ...
Offbeat Oregon: Body-snatchers planned to hold ex-mayor’s corpse for ransom
The 19th century was a kind of golden age of body snatching. Digging up the freshly dead to cash the corpses in at the back door of a nearby medical school was — well, not common exactly, but far ...
Stopping By: A faith-filled life
A couple years ago, Eunice McAvoy bought an airline ticket for a trip to Texas so she could visit her daughter. The Lafayette resident filled out the paperwork with her birthdate and other details. When ...
Stopping By: Sue Nesbitt loves gardening and helping others learn
Sue Nesbitt, now one of the 90 Master Gardeners in Yamhill County, knew her thumb wasn’t as green as it could be back when she was gardening on the East Coast. She wanted to learn more about soil ...
Provoking Hope hosts annual fundraiser dinner Saturday
Provoking Hope, an addiction and recovery nonprofit in McMinnville, will host its annual fundraising dinner, "A Walk to Remember," Saturday, February 11, from 5 to 7:30 p.m. "If you donate or if you buy ...
Vintage News-Register: January 10, 2023
Chronicling life in the Yamhill Valley through the generations with the newspaper photo archives.
There was company waiting at home for McMinnville’s first baby of ‘23
McMinnville’s first baby of 2023, Stanley Farmer, left the Willamette Valley Medical Center Monday afternoon, and soon afterward, was greeted by his very own cheering section at home. Brothers Noah, ...
2022 in review: A few of the people we won’t forget
Yamhill County lost many of its residents in 2022. Every single one will be missed. Here are a few of those we won’t forget. In January, retired Yamhill-Carlton School District teacher Don Cram ...
Stopping By: The Beckwiths' Call
Kathy Beckwith and her husband, Wayne, are looking forward to returning to India, where they started their marriage as Peace Corps volunteers and where they have spent time helping at a school on several ...
Offbeat Oregon: World’s clumsiest drug smugglers also its most audacious, Part 1
Nearly 50 years ago, the Good Friday Earthquake changed Alaska forever. It killed nine people and slammed the West Coast with tsunamis that killed 122 more, including four in Oregon.
It did something else, too, though: It heaved up the seafloor of the Inside Passage near the ghost town of Katalia by a good 12 feet. And in the process, it brought something up to the surface that was a very important piece of the history of Alaska … and, earlier, Oregon.
Rohse: Monument-al memories of Halloween celebration
My mom was all for Halloween fun, but that didn’t include making a big batch of fluffy purple slime. In our town of Monument, trick or treating wasn’t very popular. Monument had a population ...
Savvy Senior: How to find an old 401k
Dear Savvy Senior: How do I go about looking for an old former company 401(k) plan that I think I contributed money to many years ago, but forgot about until recently? Retired in Rochester If you think ...
Rohse: Better than a bouquet (from the archives)
I never knew of any Eastern Oregon rancher who brought his wife a dozen red roses. Monument’s nearest florist was about 60 miles away. I’m pretty sure my mother, at our ranch with wood-burning ...
Savvy Senior: How the Inflation Reduction Act will lower drug costs
Dear Savvy Senior: What kind of changes can Medicare beneficiaries expect to see in the Inflation Reduction Act that was recently signed into law? I’m enrolled in original Medicare and have a Part ...
Offbeat Oregon: The McLoughlin House’s unlikely journey to local historical treasure
To the average Oregon City resident, there wasn’t much to celebrate in the vacant, dilapidated old house by the foot of Willamette Falls. The house had, until a few years before, been known as the ...
Back, and Forth: Connectivity finds its most rustic roost
The last credits I earned for my Linfield degree in 1980 were from an internship at The Nation magazine in New York. It was a fine experience. I met amazing people and learned a great deal. Yet it was ...
Soroptimists offer grants to women
Soroptimist International of McMinnville is taking applications for its annual Live Your Dream Award, a cash grant available to women who are “working to better their lives through additional schooling ...
Rohse: Here in the digital age, finger foods all the rage
In this column, there is a gift for you. It’s not like a Christmas present with ribbons and bows. Rather, it is a gustatory gift made possible by the etiquette gurus — the masters of etiquette ...
