The Gales Creek Overlook in the Tillamook State Forest. File photo: Chas Hundley//Banks Post A slew of bills in committees at the Oregon Legislature could reverse tax cuts for harvested timber that have been on the books for scores of years, and that observers say has kept nine counties in[Read More…]
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Winter Storm Watch issued for Thursday through Friday
Snow covers Roderick Road near Gales Creek on February 10, 2019. Photo: Chas Hundley The Portland branch of the National Weather Service issued a Winter Storm Watch for most of northwestern Oregon and southwest Washington on Wednesday, warning of weather conditions starting Thursday and extending through Saturday that could bring[Read More…]
High school football coming back to Oregon
The Banks Braves at the 2018 state football championship. Photo: Angela Scorcio Governor Kate Brown announced changes are coming to the Oregon Heath Authority’s guidance prohibiting contact sports, and the news means that football is coming back to Banks. The new guidance will require districts in counties in the high[Read More…]
Deputies search for woman missing at Hagg Lake
Tara Callahan. Photo courtesy WCSO The Washington County Sheriff’s Office spent the weekend searching the Hagg Lake area for Tara Callahan, age 38, of Aloha after she reportedly expressed her intention to possibly kill herself. Her vehicle was found at Hagg Lake. According to a press release from the Washington[Read More…]
Washington County to move to “High Risk” COVID-19 category on Friday
Face masks. Photo: Chas Hundley On Friday, ten Oregon counties — Washington County among them — will move from the “extreme risk” category, nine to the high risk category and one to the moderate risk category as COVID-19 stats improve in most of the state, Governor Kate Brown announced Tuesday[Read More…]
School sports: Soccer, cross country approved, volleyball a maybe, football still an unknown
Sports fields in Banks on August 5, 2020. Photo: Chas Hundley The Oregon School Activities Association (OSAA) Executive Board met Monday, February 8 to discuss the fate of a number of sports, approving soccer and cross-country for a Feb. 22 start with games to start in March, and punting more[Read More…]
Legislative news briefs: Redistricting deadline looms, Banks’ representative sponsors education bills
The Oregon Capitol building in Salem. Photo: Chas Hundley The Oregon Legislature is in danger of being cut out of the process of drawing up new legislative and congressional voting districts because 2020 U.S. Census Bureau data likely won’t be available until after July 1 — it was supposed to[Read More…]
‘Seed Savers’ at the Banks Public Library can access 300 seed varieties for free
The Banks Public Library on July 6, 2020. Photo: Chas Hundley The Banks Public Library is expanding their seed saving program, and recently opened membership to a club to promote use of the library’s more than 300 varieties of seeds — and 3,000 seed packets — for gardening. “In early[Read More…]
Oregon passes 2,000 coronavirus fatalities
Ansu Drammeh, R.N., a cardiovascular intensive care nurse at OHSU, is given the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine on Wednesday, December 16 by Ryan Thrower, D.M.D., who, according to OHSU, is the first dental resident in the United States to administer a COVID-19 vaccine. As the state approaches the anniversary of the first[Read More…]
Washington County Farm Bureau seeks high school, college applicants for 2021 scholarships
Roy-area farms, taken in 2015. Photo: Chas Hundley WASHINGTON COUNTY – Local students in high school and college who are pursuing an education in the fields of agriculture, education, nursing or vocational training are eligible for scholarships offered by the Washington County Farm Bureau this year. Chair of the scholarship[Read More…]
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