Banks City Hall. Photo: Brenda Schaffer BANKS – Small businesses in Banks can apply for a Small Business Assistance Grant to help weather the adverse effects of the economic toll of the COVID-19 pandemic. Click here to get the application. The city was given $75,000 of federal CARES Act funds[Read More…]
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Banks NAPA closing, moving staff to Forest Grove
The Banks NAPA auto parts store on Wednesday, August 5. Photo: Chas Hundley BANKS – The Banks NAPA will be closing and moving their staff and inventory to the Forest Grove NAPA, according to Jason Hennig, General Manager at Sunset Auto Parts, their parent company. The Forest Grove NAPA auto[Read More…]
Fall sports season moved to spring, seasons condensed
Sports fields in Banks on August 5, 2020. Photo: Chas Hundley OREGON – The fall sports season will be shifted to spring 2021, seasons will be condensed, and out-of-season coaching restrictions will be waived, the Oregon School Activities Association (OSAA) said in a Wednesday, August 5 press release issued after[Read More…]
Banks School District lays off 13 employees
The Banks Elementary School on August 5, 2020. Photo: Chas Hundley BANKS – The Banks School District laid off 13 classified employees on Tuesday, August 4 as the district grapples with a school year that will begin online. In total, the equivalent of 8.4 full time classified positions were eliminated,[Read More…]
Free fishing weekend returns Saturday, Sunday, August 15 – 16
Hagg Lake. File photo: Chas Hundley, August 3, 2020 OREGON – Free Fishing Weekend will return to Oregon on Saturday & Sunday, August 15 and 16. On those days, fishing, crabbing, and clamming is free to all residents and non-residents, meaning no fishing licenses or tags, including a Combined Angling[Read More…]
From the newsroom: Five months in, our coronavirus reporting will remain free
It’s a new month and the same pandemic. Remember when some folks were optimistic that the shutdowns, closures, and quarantine might be a short-term prospect back in March, a time that feels roughly 20 or so years ago? Yeah. It’s August; nearly five months since the first order to close[Read More…]
Weber, Witt receive nomination from Independent Party of Oregon in legislative races
Suzanne Weber. Photo courtesy of Weber campaign The Independent Party of Oregon (IPO) announced it awarded the group’s nomination for Oregon House District 32 to Tillamook Mayor Suzanne Weber. A press release from Weber’s campaign said the nomination comes “in another nod to (Weber’s) record of nonpartisan accomplishment.” Weber, who[Read More…]
Signs, signs, signs
The current city of Banks sign on Highway 6. Photo: Brenda Schaffer BANKS – The Banks City Council plans to hold a public hearing August 11 at 7:00 p.m. to discuss a resolution granting an exemption from the city holding a public bidding process in awarding a $56,000 contract to[Read More…]
Governor Brown calls for special legislative session to address budget shortfall
The Oregon Capitol building in Salem. Photo: Chas Hundley SALEM – COVID-19 blew a hole in Oregon’s budget nearly $1 billion wide, and the task of rebalancing the budget now will fall to Oregon’s lawmakers in a special session of the Oregon Legislature convening Monday, August 10 at 8 a.m.[Read More…]
Inmate who escaped work crew in June back in custody
South Fork Forest Camp entrance in November 2017. Photo: Chas Hundley Brandon Sykes, 35, the inmate who walked away from a South Fork Forest Camp work crew on Monday, June 22 is back in custody. According to a media release from the Oregon Department of Corrections and another from the Tillamook County[Read More…]
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