Man sentenced to 57 months for child exploitation

Charlie Gail Coy, 40, of rural Lafayette was sentenced to nearly five years with the Oregon Department of Corrections after pleading guilty to five counts of first-degree encouraging child sexual abuse. Coy ...

Small towns developing food cart ordinances

As temperatures rise and residents shed their winter coats, local cities are looking to allow food carts and trucks to attract more business. The planning commissions in Lafayette, Sheridan and Willamina ...

Rachel Thompson/News-Register##Amity sixth-grader Zaria Lugo beams as her father, Jesse, photographs her artwork during the Amity Daffodil Festival Saturday at the Amity Community Center. Zaria’s piece, depicting two dragons framed by a wreath of daffodils and dandelions, earned a Judge’s Choice award in the student art show. At left are her mother, Irene, and siblings Athena and Cyrus.

Visitors DIG Amity Daffodil Festival

The city of Amity was bustling on Saturday, March 28, as droves of visitors and residents celebrated the first sign of spring, the humble daffodil. The Amity Daffodil Festival is sponsored by the Amity ...

Kirby Neumann-Rea/News-Register##Carport flip-flops and suspended bicycles are joined this week by front-porch Mount Hood mosaic, unusual sun-and-moon terra cotta, and “Frankenfoot” on West Second near McMinnville Library.

Quirk of the Week: All about eaves

Porches and carports are two underappreciated domestic spaces. A carport is not just a poor man’s garage, and a porch can be more than a covered entry. Both can do much to project a home’s ...

Mac Fire employees to vote on Social Security enrollment

The McMinnville Fire District Board of Directors agreed to hold another staff-wide vote to participate in Social Security after it was voted down last year. State and local government positions covered ...

County transit manager retiring, future funding cloudy

Yamhill County Transit Manager Cynthia Thompson is retiring this week after spending more than a decade growing and modernizing the county’s bus system. In her final update to the Yamhill County ...

Dayton Fire addresses complaints against chief

The Dayton Fire District Board agreed Monday, during a special meeting, to schedule a meeting with Chief Scott Law to discuss recently submitted complaints, following an executive session. Before entering ...

News-Register file photo##Jerry Trimble and his wife Alison Row have been operating a flight school out of McMinnville Municipal Airport since 2007. Trimble Aviation has been recommended to become the airport operator by the Airport Commission.

Trimble Aviation recommended as McMinnville airport operator

McMinnville’s Airport Advisory Commission opted to stay local with its choice for the facility’s next operator, unanimously recommending Trimble Aviation. Owners Jerry Trimble and Alison Row ...

Rusty Rae/News-Register##Shelving and cabinets on the new second-floor of the Yamhill County History Museum stand ready to hold household goods, textiles and other items in a climate-controlled space. Museum Director Heather Farquhar said the new space, not usually open to the public, will help preserve the collection longer and in better condition.

Loft will help museum preserve artifacts

A new second story in its main building will help the Yamhill County History Museum better care for its collection of household items, clothing and other artifacts. In addition, “this will help ...

Court Records: April 1, 2026

CIVIL FILINGS Robert W. Bunn vs. Dundee Hills Resort, LLC and Saj Jivanjee: Granted $100,000.00 judgment. Discover Bank vs. Shannon O. Starr: Granted $10,903.11 judgment. Midland Credit Management, ...

Local agencies support child abuse prevention

April is Child Abuse Prevention Month, and local nonprofits are making an extra effort to raise awareness. “Child abuse prevention starts with informed, connected communities, and every person has ...

Dems request more time for public comment on new O&C logging plans

Oregon’s congressional Democrats are asking federal officials to give the public more time to learn about and comment on new plans that would open up millions of acres of federal forests in Oregon to logging activity not seen since the 1960s.

 

Rachel Thompson/News-Register##Workers and heavy equipment continue to clear land for the new Goodwill store that will be built in McMinnville this year. The site is on Highway 99W at the north end of town, across from the steel mill. Goodwill will move from its current location once the 10,000-square-foot building is finished.

Along the Street: New Goodwill store will include retail, job training

Major earth moving is in process at the site of the new McMinnville Goodwill location, Highway 99W and Doran Drive at the north edge of town. Workers also removed some trees to clear space for the development, ...

McMinnville felon indicted on vehicle theft, drug charges

Charges of vehicle theft, drug possession and eluding police are the latest additions to a lengthy criminal record for Wyatt Jacob Duck, 30, of McMinnville. Duck was arraigned on indictments Monday afternoon ...

Rachel Thompson/News-Register##Susan and David Vandewater of Chehalis, Washington, view the Oregon Memorial Traveling Wall alongside Vietnam veteran Tom Beckley, right, on Friday at the Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum in McMinnville. The wall, a project of Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 805 in Roseburg and the Umpqua Valley, lists the names of Oregon service members who died in the Vietnam War and honors those lost in later conflicts. American Legion Post 21 of McMinnville brought the wall to Evergreen March 27-29; it travels to communities across the state.

Photos: Wall of remembrance

The Oregon Memorial Traveling Wall at the Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum

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