A traffic camera at Staley’s Junction Thursday morning. Photo: ODOT BUXTON – Highway 47 is closed for a fatal crash near milepost 76, according to the Oregon Department of Transportation. The Banks Fire District confirmed the fatality in a media alert. According to Washington County Sheriff’s Office public information officer[Read More…]
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Power outages in Timber, Buxton, Banks areas, 911 outage for some homes
A downed power line in Gales Creek. Photo: Chas Hundley BUXTON – High winds and soaking rain have already taken their toll during this weekend’s flood watch: Power outages throughout the region, from multiple causes, have impacted customers of Portland General Electric and West Oregon Electric Co-op in Timber, Buxton,[Read More…]
Mobile home, pole barn destroyed in Buxton-area fire
Photo from the scene courtesy Mitch Ward, Banks Fire District PIO TOPHILL – A fire destroyed a mobile home and the pole barn sheltering it just north of Stub Stewart State Park on Highway 47 Tuesday night. According to Banks Fire District 13 spokesperson Mitch Ward, the mobile home was[Read More…]
Obituary: Darby Ann Sorenson
Darby Ann Sorenson Darby Ann was born on April 3, 1951 in Portland, OR She was the only child born to Spencer D and Bette I (Norberg) Wridge. As a girl she was raised in and around Banks and Forest Grove. When she was in junior high, her family moved[Read More…]
Mobile home burning north of Stub Stewart State Park
Photo from the scene. Banks Fire District Tophill – Banks Fire District has been dispatched after reports of a mobile home fire on Highway 47 near Hoffman Road, north of Stub Stewart State Park between Buxton and Vernonia. Around 9:10 p.m., Banks Fire District said they had knocked down the[Read More…]
Work begins on new fire station near Buxton
Banks Fire Chief Rodney Linz and Banks Fire District board members start the ceremonial groundbreaking. Photo: Banks Fire District 13 BUXTON – Banks Fire District 13 board members, fire chief Rodney Linz, and other community members and those involved in the district turned the first few ceremonial shovels of dirt[Read More…]
Beaverton man dies in crash west of Buxton
Photo from the scene: Banks Fire District 13 BUXTON – Highway 26 was closed for three hours after a Beaverton man crashed on Friday afternoon, dying at the scene. According to a media release from the Oregon State Police, Ken Duong, 48, of Beaverton was driving east on Highway 26[Read More…]
Deadly crash closes Highway 26 at the Dennis L. Edwards Tunnel
The Dennis L. Edwards Tunnel. Photo: Chas Hundley BUXTON – A deadly crash at the east end of the Dennis L. Edwards Tunnel has closed Highway 26 in both directions, according to the Washington County Sheriff’s Office and the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT). As of 3:25 p.m., the highway[Read More…]
Banks Fire responds to vehicle crash, downed tree, vehicle fire, and brush fire – all at the same incident
The entrance to Stub Stewart State Park. Photo: Chas Hundley BUXTON – Banks Fire District 13 and Metro Ambulance West responded to a vehicle crash, a vehicle fire, a downed tree, and a brush fire on Monday night. It was all tied to one incident, first called in at 11:31[Read More…]
Community members weigh in on Salmonberry Trail
The route of the Salmonberry Trail near Buxton. Photo: Chas Hundley BUXTON – John Hamel doesn’t think much of the Salmonberry Trail. Maybe that’s not the right way to put it. Hamel thinks of it often, mostly in terms that he assures the Post are unprintable. His list of complaints[Read More…]
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