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Art on display —
The new exhibit at Arts Element Gallery will feature a pair of photographers, Mike Haverkate and Janis Miglavs, and painter Jackie McCartin.
A trio of artists inspired by Yamhill County’s wine country will be featured in a new exhibit titled “Art of the Vine,” running through Sept. 26 at Art Elements Gallery on First Street. Their work will serve as the backdrop to a presentation by Allen Holstein of Granville Winery (and the past manager of Argyle, Knudsen, Domaine Drouhin and Stoller, among others) on the terroir, history and future of the Willamette Valley wine industry.
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Trolley returns to First Friday “The Trolley” charter bus will be a regular participant in the First Friday Art Walk, beginning Sept. 3. Free rides are available, starting at the Chehalem Cultural Center and making four to five stops per loop of downtown.
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The Chehalem Mountains Winegrowers association will hold its third annual “Explore, Tour & Taste!” open house over Labor Day Weekend. More than 30 vineyard and winery members will host pre-harvest vineyard presentations, open houses, tastings and more.
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“Ruthie and the Hippo’s Fat Behind” may have a humorous title, but its author, Margot Finke, has a serious purpose. The local children’s author coined the title of her latest book as a metaphor for the sulky moods that her heroine Ruthie suffers after moving to a new neighborhood and struggling to make friends.
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8/25/2010 12:00:00 PM
Historical Society seeks recruits Newberg residents interested in participating in a local historical society may attend an organizing meeting set for 6:30 to 8 p.
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Today, we normally use the highway. Some people before us used the railroads. Before that people used rivers as their primary mode of travel. Saturday, the iconic steamboat whistle will sound on the Willamette River once again as part of Butteville Store’s Steamboat Day, a celebration of the river highway that connected farms to major western cities.
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Got a bee in your bonnet or slugs in your lettuce patch? The Yamhill County Master Gardeners are here to help. The group, a volunteer association of the Oregon State University Extension Service, has set up a booth at the Newberg Farmer’s Market to meet the public and help them solve their gardening problems.
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A Veritas graduate about to start his second year of conservatory saw the film he scored open in Portland this weekend. Andrew Gerlicher, 19, is a composition major at the Wheaton Conservatory of Music at Wheaton College in Wheaton, Ill.
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