This is the last weekend before the Tillamook Forest Center reduces hours for the fall and then closes in November. Should the center finish the season out this year—and, barring unforeseen catastrophe, there's no indication that it won't—it will mark the first full season the center has pulled off
Fire danger in this corner of the state has lowered enough that the Oregon Department of Forestry plans to reduce the fire danger level for public use restrictions to moderate (blue) Tuesday morning in the Northwest Oregon Forest Protective Association (NWOFPA) region.
The cornhole tournament to benefit the Banks Youth Football is from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday. It'll be the third year that the fundraiser has been held during the Banks BBQ, a necessity borne from the COVID-19 pandemic that turned out to be a blessing in disguise.
Tuesday's crash on Highway 26 near Maller Road resulted in the deaths of two people after a 90-year-old driver drove into oncoming traffic, the Oregon State Police said Thursday afternoon
Ninety years ago to the day, the first fire of what would become known as the Tillamook Burn started near Gales Creek. We've gathered oral histories, written diaries, and newspaper clippings detailing what happened.
Sunset Laundry makes it into this month's police log not once but twice, and windows are broken by unknown miscreant(s) at the Banks Elementary and High Schools.
