Sheridan News

Time, as we count it, began anew on Friday. Earlier civilizations celebrated new years on different days, yet always recognizing the recurring cycle of life.

Staff Sgt. Karl Laeger plays with his son, Keylar, and daughter, Karly Jo, at McMinnville's Discovery Meadows Park just prior to leaving for Iraq in April.

A Sheridan man was listed in critical condition Tuesday at Legacy Emanuel Hospital in Portland following a two-vehicle crash Friday afternoon on Highway 22 southwest of Dallas in Polk County.

Three people were critically injured Friday afternoon in a head-on crash on Oregon 22 west of Dallas, the Oregon State Police reports.

Rep. Jim Weidner of Yamhill, the freshman Republican representing most of Yamhill County in the House, announced his candidacy for re-election Friday.

One moment, McKay High School's choir room buzzes with the ordinary voices of 100 adults making small talk.

Some of your tax dollars are hard at work paying for certain criminals to go to rehab.

In January, the city of McMinnville will present its residents with a meticulously detailed plan for expansion and improvement of its street system for all users - motorists, pedestrians, bicyclists and bus riders - for the next 20 years.

Company owners Don and Nadine Stuck pose in the parts and equipment room at Stuck Electric in Sheridan.

Yamhill County Public Health is offering free H1N1 flu vaccinations at local daycares, pre-schools and schools, but it requires permission that many parents seem reluctant to grant.

The Oregon Aviation Hall of Honor will induct six more Oregonians who have made great contributions to the field of aviation on Sunday, Oct.

Yamhill County residents would have to vote on every new or increased fee proposed by the county commissioners, retroactive to July 1, under an initiative proposed by conservative activist Neal Lockhart for the May primary ballot.

Three federal prisoners in Oregon are suing a group of guards allegedly known as the " Sheridan Cowboys " for sexual misconduct in what's described as an illegal strip-search. The so-called Sheridan Cowboys are an especially aggressive group of guards at the federal prison outside Sheridan, Ore., according to three separate federal lawsuits filed ...

It's great that the court system sends people out to clean up the highway trash, but folks did that job in 90-plus degree heat in early August and those yellow bags sat beside Highway 22 for more than a month ... the ones that weren't run over or ripped open and redistributed, anyway.

About 16,573 K-12 students enrolled in Yamhill County's seven school districts as classes began last week in most cites and Aug.

SHERIDAN a ' An explosion and fire early Friday morning destroyed a motorhome southwest of Sheridan at 7080 Frank Road which runs between Blanchard and Red Prairie roads in Polk County.

Acting U.S. Attorney Kent S. Robinson and David Kris, Assistant Attorney General for National Security, announced today that Nathaniel James Nicholson, 25, of Eugene, Oregon, appeared before U.S. District Judge Anna J. Brown and pled guilty to the crimes of conspiracy to act as an agent of a foreign government and conspiracy to commit money ...

LAFAYETTE, Ore. -- A 16-year-old girl was killed and her father seriously injured Tuesday afternoon when their car collided with a fully loaded dump truck at the intersection of Highway 18 and Lafayette Highway in Yamhill County According to Oregon State Police Sgt.

See Related Story: Mac school district to cut 40 teaching jobs Yamhill County students will return to classes to find fewer teachers, larger classes and, in some cases, different schedules or building configurations - mostly as a result of the economic downturn and subsequent tight school funding.

Leading the area in cross country success last season were the Amity boys, who rolled through their regular season meets before finishing fourth at the OSAA State Championship in Eugene.