News & Features
Sans snow, Ski & Ride becomes online auction for See Ya Later, Cancer Foundation
The annual Ski & Ride Fundraiser, which raises funds for two McMinnville nonprofits – the See Ya Later Foundation’s Seeds of Hope program and the Willamette Valley Cancer Foundation – ...
$5.2 million in state funds headed to local projects
Three Yamhill County projects are anticipated to receive a combined $5.2 million in state funds after being included in a final list of projects in the Legislature’s capital construction package. The ...
MURAC recommends First Street bungalow project get $50,000
The McMinnville Urban Renewal Advisory Committee (MURAC) recommended issuing a $50,000 forgivable loan Wednesday to help complete a First Street short-term rental business. Shannon Quimby, owner of Hoff’s ...
County to pledge $200k for loan program
Yamhill County small business owners could soon have access to a $1 million revolving loan fund stemming from a 30-year-old county grant and the 2024 windstorm that qualified as a federal disaster. The ...
Crash damages St. Vincent office
Manager Patricia Jensen was having a meeting with a client at the St. Vincent de Paul social services office just before 1 p.m. on Thursday when a Toyota Highlander rolled into building. Jensen was sitting ...
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 ...
DA Lynch comments on Appeals Court ruling
Following the April 2 Oregon Court of Appeals opinion of State v. Johnny Lee Widerman, the Yamhill County District Attorney’s Office is reviewing the opinion and any impacts to the office’s ...
Sewage discharged into Yamhill River
Approximately 50,000 gallons of partially treated sewage was discharged into the South Yamhill River Monday due to a control system failure at the McMinnville Water Reclamation Facility. At approximately ...
Child abuse intervention center works to raise awareness, funds
Juliette’s House, the Yamhill County child abuse intervention center, will host several activities to mark National Child Abuse Prevention Month in April — including a special blue marble treasure ...
Sports
Mac's Campos exemplifies Grizzly spirit during final stint at state wrestling tournamnet
As a then-incoming high schooler who was tired of being cooped up in his house during the Covid pandemic, McMinnville’s Nelson Campos found wrestling as an outlet to let loose. He showed little ...
Mac Girls Basketball: Grizzlies end year in Eugene one shot short of sweet 16
As the No. 21-seed in the 6A Girls Basketball State Championship tournament, McMinnville’s varsity girls basketball team battled with No. 12 Sheldon (20-5, 8-4) on the road in Eugene. The two sides ...
3A Boys Wrestling: Savage, Stanton lead list of Willamina placers as program finishes fifth at state championship
“I don’t care who I’m wrestling, I know they’re going to have to wrestle me,” Adonijah Stanton, Willamina’s 132-pound state champion, told the News-Register ...
3A Girls Wrestling: Tuning makes Tiger history
Senior Addison Tuning (155) has stamped her name in the annals of Yamhill Carlton History, earning her name on the wrestling room wall as the first girls state placer, claiming runner-up status at the ...
’Cats historic season ends in home heartbreak to Bruins
One of the best seasons by a Linfield’s women's basketball team was cut short on Friday, Feb. 27, as the Wildcats suffered a Northwest Conference semifinal loss to George Fox University by a score ...
Features
Quirk of the Week: Roadside oddities, one writ larch, gather around Sheridan, Willamina
Quirk of the Week on Feb. 19 crept west from McMinnville, but this week takes us farther west still, along the highways and deep into the hills … No exploration of West Valley Quirk would be complete ...
Whatchamacolumn: Property tax summary provides feast of numbers
My occasional obsession with numbers is well fed every October by the annual Yamhill County property tax summary. And Yamhill County Assessor Derrick Wharff always contributes enough extra analysis to ...
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 ...
