Banks Post Weekly Newsletter | April 9, 2025
April 9, 2025 • Volume 1, issue #4
Good evening, Banks Post readers!
Take a look at the news from this week, and the events coming up in Banks. There’s a lot going on in town!
P.S. check out the events calendar at the bottom!
Have an event you’d like listed? Email the details and a link to more information or a calendar listing to [email protected].
-Chas Hundley, editor.
On to the news!
Banks City Councilor Don Giannetti resigns
Banks City Councilor Don Giannetti resigned Tuesday, according to an item added to the city council’s meeting agenda. He was just four months into what would have been his first…
Banks, Gales Creek-area residents head to “Hands Off” protests in Forest Grove, North Plains, Hillsboro
Gales Creek and Banks-area residents were at three “Hands Off” protests in Forest Grove, North Plains and Hillsboro on Saturday. We asked them why they were protesting.
Sheriff’s office releases names of mother, children found dead in Cornelius
The Washington County Sheriff’s Office released the names of four people found dead Tuesday afternoon in a Cornelius home.
Washington County Sheriff’s Office investigating deaths of woman and three young children in Cornelius
A mother and her three children, ages 2, 5 and 7, were found dead in a Cornelius home Tuesday afternoon, according to the Washington County Sheriff’s Office.
Firefighters return from North Carolina
Firefighters deployed from Oregon to North Carolina to help fight wildfires have mostly returned, the Oregon Department of Forestry (ODF) said.
Column | 1925 in Banks: Oil derrick nears completion
Buxton’s oil boom continued in this week’s news from a century ago.
Have an event you’d like listed? Email the details and a link to more information or a calendar listing to [email protected].
Today, Wednesday | April 9, 2025
- Craft Night – Banks Public Library
- Technology help with a digital navigator – Banks Public Library
- Banks Fire Board Meeting – Banks Fire District
- Cub Scout pinewood derby, 6 – 8 p.m. – Schlegel Hall
Thursday | April 10, 2025
- Mah Jongg – Banks Public Library
- Bingo – Banks American Legion Post, 6:30 p.m. – 9 p.m.
- Dungeons & Dragons Drop-in gaming – Banks Public Library
Friday | April 11, 2025
Saturday | April 12, 2025
- Banks High Drama Work Day – Banks High School @ Cafeteria
- Field clean up day – Banks Sunset Park
- Annual Spring Garden Day – Banks Public Library
- Forest Bounty | Eating Local – Tillamook Forest Center
- Rise Up Fellowship Easter Carnival – Rise Up Family Fellowship (Buxton)
Sunday | April 13, 2025
Monday | April 14, 2025
- Possible Dorman Pond 1000 legal size trout stocking date April 14 – April 18 (ODF&W does not disclose actual dates) – Dorman Pond
Tuesday | April 15, 2025
- Art Lab Elementary: Music and Emotions – Banks Public Library
- Tuesday Learners – Banks Public Library
- Library Board Meeting – Zoom
- Line Dance Lesson – Banks Billiards
Chas Hundley is the editor of the Banks Post and sister news publications the Gales Creek Journal and the Salmonberry Magazine. He grew up in Gales Creek and has a cat.
