The Tillamook Forest Center will close for the winter season December 2, after one last holiday event. It’s not expected to reopen until March of 2024. The last day to visit the site is Dec. 1.
Two councilors have announced their resignation, one immediate, and another at the end of the year, and the city council must fill both positions by a process involving application, an interview, and then appointment.
Following steep declines in school attendance in the immediate aftermath of the pandemic, Oregon students are slowly beginning to show up more regularly to class and a growing number of ninth graders are on track to graduate on time.
Highway 6 was back down to one lane Thursday morning. "With similar and further sinking this morning, we expect to flag traffic until the lane can be stabilized, and the surface repaired," ODOT said in a statement. "This means the lane closure may last beyond today."
Both lanes of Highway 6 at milepost 35 are fully open, a spokesperson for the Oregon Department of Transportation said in an email to this newspaper at 3:45 p.m.
A virtual meeting for communities in CPO 8, which includes Mountaindale, will be held virtually via Zoom and telephone Thursday, Nov 21 from 7 to 9:15 p.m. On the agenda: Water law, irrigation, an update from the Washington County Sheriff's Office and more.
Highway 6, down to one lane since early Wednesday morning after the westbound lane at milepost 35 dropped several inches is expected to be fully reopened by 2 p.m. Wednesday, an ODOT spokesperson said.
A century ago, Timber had a hotel, and it lit on fire. "Bridge gang is heroic," read the headline, crediting the heroic work of a small crew using fire extinguishers for keeping the fire from spreading to the rest of the town.
Highway 6 is reduced to one lane at milepost 35 according to the Washington County Sheriff’s Office for what the Oregon Department of Transportation described as a sunken grade.
High winds are anticipated starting Tuesday afternoon, the Portland Office of the National Weather Service said in a Wind Advisory. Gusts up to 45 mph at lower elevation areas are expected, and higher coast range elevations could see 60 mph gusts.
