The Gales Creek Strawberry Festival is back for its 55th year—featuring strawberries, live music, 50+ vendors, and new this year, a giant chess set.
Several Banks-area small businesses, crafters and musicians will join the festival, including NW Laser & Stitch and a Banks-based face painting business.
Business
Sunset Hwy Bar & Grill hosting Grand Opening Friday
Seven months after opening, Sunset Hwy Bar & Grill is hosting a grand opening Friday, May 9.
University of Portland strips Robert Pamplin Jr.’s name from its business school
The move comes after labor officials found Pamplin, who owned the Forest Grove News-Times and other area newspapers until last June, violated federal pension laws in his management of retirees’ money.
Hop Cycle for sale: Banks’ only brewpub is on the market
As Hop Cycle Brewing Co. owner Tom Walsh battles cancer, his brewpub in downtown Banks is up for sale.
Banks Billiards plans grand opening for new facade
Banks Billiards will host a grand opening to celebrate the completion of their new facade Saturday, April 19 starting at 4 p.m.
Bob and Cherri Klaumann bid farewell to Lake Stop Grocery
For over 50 years, Hagg Lake has been a top recreation spot for visitors from western Washington County and beyond. For just as long, the Klaumann family has welcomed locals and travelers alike at their rural grocery store. Now, as Bob and Cherri Klaumann pass the torch, they reflect on decades of community support.
Stimson Lumber plans Hagg Lake mill expansion
Stimson Lumber’s representatives will host a community meeting to outline plans to build a new structure, an early step in a planned $50 million investment at their sawmill near Hagg Lake on Tuesday, March 4.
Dr. Robert Pamplin concedes he raided his employees’ pension fund
On Dec. 26, Dr. Robert Pamplin Jr., 83, settled a lawsuit brought by the U.S. Department of Labor to resolve allegations he treated his company’s pension fund like a piggy bank, selling overvalued company real estate to unwitting pensioners.
What’s open in Banks on Thanksgiving?
We called thirty Banks, Buxton, Manning and Timber businesses so you don’t have to. Here’s what’s open and closed Thursday and Friday.
Sunset Hwy Bar & Grill opens in Manning
Manning’s latest restaurant opened with a soft opening Friday morning, welcoming their first customers at 11 a.m. in their spot at the corner of Sunset Highway and Dingheiser Road.
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