October 24, 2025, Volume 1, issue #3.

Good afternoon Banks!

We have a fistful of stories for you in this week's newsletters, along with this week's events.

Thanks for reading!

Yours, Chas Hundley, Founder, Banks Post

🚓 Halloween closure in Arbor Village development

🔍Search suspended for missing man

🚒 SNAP food and nutrition assistance to Oregonians runs out at the end of October

...plus more stories and events!

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On to the Banks-area news.

Banks Fire inadvertently totals car thought to have been donated

The Banks Fire District will tighten their checks and balances around which cars they demolish for training after inadvertently damaging a car parked at their station in Buxton that hadn't been donated for destruction.

Search for Thomas Weightman suspended

The search for Forest Grove resident Thomas Weightman, missing since Tuesday, Oct. 14, was suspended Sunday evening, the Forest Grove Police Department.

City plans Halloween closure to outside traffic for Arbor Village

The city of Banks will once again close the Arbor Village development to outside traffic on Halloween.

SNAP food and nutrition assistance to Oregonians runs out at the end of October

The one in six Oregonians who rely on federal SNAP food and nutrition assistance to pay for groceries each month will be left with nothing in November due to the ongoing government shutdown, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Oregon Department of Human Services.