A private fish hatchery near Mountaindale provides 5,000 trout to a Gales Creek man, and an accused moonshiner takes his own life in this week's dispatches from history.
Deputies with the Washington County Sheriff's Office responded to a littering report Tuesday on Long Road between Verboort and Cornelius and found more than they bargained for.
After two weeks battling wildfires in Texas, a strike team sent by the Oregon Department of Forestry headed home—and were immediately replaced by a second team of Oregon firefighters, including two local firefighters based out of the Forest Grove District.
A century ago, the Banks American Legion had a membership drive, and the Gales Creek Stage meant there were better mass transit options in the valley than there are today.
The numbers are in from the "Scouting for Food" event held March 2 in Banks, and Banks Troop 581 Scoutmaster Cliff Cottam said cubs and scouts collected 564 pounds of food for donation to the Banks Community Food Bank.
Fire crews from the Oregon Department of Forestry, including one local firefighter based out of the Forest Grove District, are still in Texas as of Monday, helping other fire agencies battle deadly wildfires that have wracked the state.
Three men in the Washington County Jail on various charges related to moonshine and Prohibition escaped via the roof, "swinging to trees" in 1924. This and more in the news of a century ago.
Sellers Road will be closed from 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. from Banks Road to Highway 26; local access will be allowed outside of the actual culvert repair site.
An inactive county-affiliated nonpartisan civic group for residents and property owners in Banks, Buxton, Timber and Manning is planning to start up this spring, with a meeting scheduled for Thursday to nominate officers and their first full meeting planned for April 11.
