Photo: Chas Hundley WASHINGTON COUNTY – The Salmonberry Trail received a large cash influx from the Washington County Visitors Association and Tillamook County totaling $350,000 to complete the master plan for two more trail sections on the 86-mile former rail line. According to a press release, the two agencies used[Read More…]
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County News Dispatch: ICE, Metro parks, equity resolution adopted, Human remains found in county
A rendering of the Chehalem Ridge nature park, courtesy of Metro This week’s installment of the County Dispatch – Quick hits that you should read, that we want to write about, but don’t have the staff and time to fully dive into. Human remains found — twice — in Washington[Read More…]
Woman found guilty on multiple charges after Dec. 29 car chase in Banks
Jenkins. Photo: Washington County DA HILLSBORO – Aubri Rita Jenkins has been sentenced to 18 months in prison after being found guilty on a series of charges stemming from a Sunday misadventure on December 29, 2019 in Banks and the surrounding areas, including nearly running over an Oregon State Trooper[Read More…]
Utility companies could charge Oregon ratepayers for electric vehicle infrastructure improvements under proposed HB 4066
The Oregon Capitol building in Salem. Photo: Chas Hundley SALEM – House Bill 4066, a prospective law that passed on a 7-2 vote that would allow the state Public Utility Commission (PUC) to provide electric companies with the ability to recover costs for electric vehicle investments from ratepayers, passed the[Read More…]
Banks Billiards a finalist to appear on ‘Bar Rescue’ TV series
A 2017 photo of Banks Billiards. Photo: Chas Hundley BANKS – Producers from the Paramount Network reality television show ‘Bar Rescue’ have narrowed their search for a bar to “rescue” to just a handful of locations. Among the finalists is Banks Billiards on Main Street, according to Michelle Berger, who[Read More…]
Banks January 2020 Police Log
A Washington County Sheriff’s Office vehicle in front of the Banks city hall. Photo: Chas Hundley Criminal Mischief: Quail Hallow Apartments- Two teenage female “ex-friends” arguing over rumors. One used window paint to draw obscene photos on the other’s car windows. Clear exceptional Lost Property: Main Street- Vehicle plates reported missing.[Read More…]
Man charged with kidnapping two Banks women
A Washington County Sheriff’s Office deputy. Photo: WCSO WASHINGTON COUNTY – Two Banks women reportedly are safe after being kidnapped on Wednesday, January 29 at about 12:30 a.m. by a man they reportedly knew who offered them a ride home from an off-campus party of mainly Portland State University students.[Read More…]
Cpl. Jeremy Braun looks toward returning to work after being shot in line of duty
Joy Braun, Jeremy Braun, and Sheriff Pat Garrett. Photo: Chas Hundley//Banks Post HILLSBORO – “The valley of the shadow of death is very small, very narrow, and you have to go through it alone,” said Corporal Jeremy Braun of the Washington County Sheriff’s Office. After being shot at close range[Read More…]
Salmonberry Trail Intergovernmental Agency will meet Feb. 7 in Salem
The Salmonberry Trail in Tillamook. Photo: Chas Hundley SALEM – The Salmonberry Trail Intergovernmental Agency (STIA) will hold a board meeting on Friday, February 7 from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. in the Tillamook Conference Room at Oregon Department of Forestry Headquarters, located in Salem at 2600 State Street. At the meeting,[Read More…]
PHOTOS: Local fire agencies conduct training burn in Gales Creek
The little white house burns. Photo: Chas Hundley//Banks Post GALES CREEK – Forest Grove Fire & Rescue, Banks Fire District 13, Gaston Rural Fire Protection District, and the Cornelius Fire District all participated in a training burn in Gales Creek on Saturday, February 1 at a building located on the[Read More…]
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