Dayton News

Oregon State Police are investigating a single-vehicle crash on Highway 221 in Yamhill County that injured one person and has closed the highway.

Forty-four years ago, in 1968, $3 million was going to build a roadway from Highway 99W to I-5 across a new Willamette River bridge at Lambert Bend Forty-four years ago, in 1968, voters in Yamhill and Marion counties each approved a $750,000 bond proposal to match a $1.5 million grant from the federal Economic Development Administration.

Yamhill County began the year with an unemployment rate of 8.7 percent. It inched down to 8.5 percent in March and held there in April.

Janell Temple-Rolston loves being surrounded by family - including her parents, Jack and Juanita Temple, and her ancestors in the photos displayed at her Amity restaurant.

Murals have imparted socio-cultural statements since prehistoric artists first began applying rudimentary pigments to the walls of their cave dwellings some 35,000 years ago.

Irving Villarreal's show of support for a placard-wielding Occupy Wall Street demonstration near the US Bank Plaza, taking the form of some sustained horn-honking as he drove by, landed him in McMinnville Municipal Court.

Voters narrowed the field Tuesday from six candidates to two - Allen Springer and Denise Bacon - for the Yamhill County Board of Commissioners seat held by Leslie Lewis, who will be term-limited out Dec.

James Yount, who specializes in what he calls "mantiques," has opened American Retro Antiques in an old carriage house at 131 N.E. Fifth St.

Newsroom budgets and not bottles have consumed most of my time lately, although I did get to taste five wines in the Pergola over the weekend.