All business: Students learn real-world skills with unique simulation game

Business was running smoothly at ULA SUP, a company that makes stand-up paddleboards. The Yew management team was working on keeping employees, ensuring supply chains were open and increasing production, ...

Commentary

With six weeks left in 2025, we are rounding out the second year of this column. As promised, a Thanksgiving smorgasbord of local Quirk awaits below. First, it feels like a good time for a sort of orientation: ...

The president can do this or that, but the courts and Congress can put a stop to it, depending on the circumstances and relevant rules.

We’re helping official launch of the holiday season with this Thanksgiving-eve News-Register “print issue” for the first time in many years … thus, it’s a good time for some ...

About the writer: John A. Charles Jr. spent eight years as director of environmental policy with the Cascade Policy Institute, a free-market think tank, before being named CEO there in 2005. He previously ...

This week’s column is built around information from artificial intelligence (AI) — intertwined (hopefully) with splashes of human intelligence (“HI”). In today’s unprecedented ...

Editorials

From the outset of President Trump’s second term, masked Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in unmarked cars have been permitted to scoop up potential immigration status violators and whisk ...

At this writing, a final, official reckoning is still not yet available for the $98.5 million parks and rec bond appearing on McMinnville’s November general election ballot. The most recent tally ...

At this writing, we finally appear poised to close the books on the longest federal shutdown in American history, exceeding that even of the 35-day closure marking the first Trump presidency. But in addition ...

A political storm brought thunder and lightning raining down on America’s east and west coasts Tuesday, and vast swaths of the heartland lying between. Almost everywhere, the results were delivered ...

So much of what local government entities do for their constituents is so mundane and routine it seldom gets any attention until things go wrong. Then a hue and cry arises. Everyone wonders why someone ...

Letters

The News-Register welcomes written opinions about issues of public interest and about the content of this newspaper. Letters from non-local writers are accepted only if they focus on local issues. This ...

Time to stand up Ramming people’s cars is illegal. Assaulting people is illegal. Kidnapping people is illegal. Refusing due process for people — including immigrants — is illegal, and ...

Yes on Yamhelas Trail I am now a senior rider, after decades of being a cyclist for both recreation and transportation at different periods in my life. And I feel much safer on a trail away from the increasingly ...

It’s on us I want to thank each and every one of you for participating in marches against the man in the White House. With the help of the Supreme Court, he created a hopeless atmosphere of despair ...

No sense of mercy? I volunteer at the Soup Kitchen at St. Barnabas, and on the Tuesday evening of Oct. 28, we served 80 plates in the first 30 minutes. Are we people choosing to have a country without ...

News & Features

Bus route to Eugene opens with free service

Local residents can catch a free ride to Corvallis or Eugene, at least during the next six months of a pilot program. The new line, called 99 Vine, is a joint project of Yamhill and Benton counties using ...

Sudden loss of a buddy

Joe Loiselle never hesitated to help anyone who needed assistance, said friends left devastated by his death at age 41 on Nov. 19. “He would drop anything to help,” said Gary Huggins, who took ...

City determining how to rebuild historic wall

A historic wall on the edge of McMinnville’s City Park will be repaired following a traffic accident that destroyed a portion of it earlier this month. The approximately 24-foot-long brick wall ...

ICE arrests Mac High senior; protests follow

McMinnville High School students organized a walk-out and protest in response to one of their own being detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Friday, Nov. 21.

Stopping By: A house of whimsy, memories

A Santa face — button nose, crinkly eyes, fluffy beard — smiles at visitors from a mirror in Donna Parkinson’s entranceway. The simple but cheery paper face was created by one ...

All business: Students learn real-world skills with unique simulation game

Rink gets new home at Evergreen

Whatever the weather, McMinnville area residents can go ice skating during the holidays. The Glide and Gather skating rink will open Friday, Nov. 28, under the tail of the Spruce Goose in the Evergreen ...

A Family Place dedicates new playground

Adults of various ages climbed onto the boulders, walked across a series of tree-trunk stepping stones and even slipped down the slide at A Family Place’s new playground at the relief nursery’s ...

Vintage N-R/Memory Lane: Nov. 26, 2026

10 years ago -- In one sense, Presiding Judge John Collins predates the state’s 25th Judicial District, which includes the Yamhill County Circuit Court. Collins took the bench in 1992, when ...

Mac Fire District to use $3M on Hwy. 18 station

The McMinnville Fire District plans to use $3 million in state funding for upgrades to its Station 15 on Highway 18, rather than building a new station in the northern part of the district. The district ...

Mac PD shaves off for Juliette’s House

Residents can help decide which facial hair McMinnville Police officers will sport in December if they donate to Juliette’s House this month at participating locations. “We are really hoping ...

Santa's on his way to Mac

Santa will take time out of his busy schedule Friday to ring in the holiday season in McMinnville. He will fly in from the North Pole in time to be the featured guest in McMinnville’s annual Santa ...

Quirk of the Week: Fun-sway, you could say, and the quirk of cork

YCCO issues notice of data breach

Personal information of Yamhill Community Care members was accidentally posted online on Aug. 29, the organization said Tuesday in a press release. “YCCO learned that two financial reports containing ...

Photos: Restoration celebration

The Grand Ronde Restoration Celebration Powwow at Spirit Mountain Casino marked 42 years since the Tribe’s federal recognition was restored.

Landmarks board continues review of demolition rules

McMinnville’s Historic Landmarks Committee discussed proposed amendments to demolition rules for historic structures for the eighth time last week and will hold another meeting in December to finalize ...

Aerialists bring home medals

Three members of Earth & Elevate Movement Studio’s performance team came home with medals from their first competition, held Nov. 9 in Los Angeles. Nisha Kumar and Holland Bertsch each won a ...

Along the Street: Holiday events need volunteers

Several holiday events still need volunteers to help, two of them this week. -- Volunteers are still needed to help with McMinnville’s annual Santa parade, which will be held at 4:30 p.m. Friday, ...

Over a third of students aren’t consistently attending school

Attendance at Oregon public schools improved only slightly during the 2024–25 school year, and continued to lag behind the national average.

Free wood for Willamina residents

The city of Willamina has freshly cut timber free to the public on a first-come-first-served basis. Willamina Public Works often must fell trees on city property, and the city has made a practice ...

Sports

Team of destiny: Warriors praise Amity fandom after winning second championship of 2025

Not since the years 1999 and 2000 have two Amity High School athletic programs won state championships in the same calendar year. In the realm of varsity sports, the feat is not uncommon, but never unadmirable. When ...

Mac Soccer: Grizzlies combine for 19 All-League honors, Adam Howard and Isai Cuevas-George repeat with respective Coach and Player of the Year honors

Wortman Stadium was raucous this season for Grizzly soccer. Both of McMinnville’s varsity squads made the playoffs and impressed on the pitch, catching the attention of opposing players and coaches ...

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