Banks and Buxton area runners joined more than 500 people who finished the Vernonia Marathon, Half Marathon or Marathon Relay on Sunday on a route that mostly followed the Banks-Vernonia State Trail from Vernonia to the Banks High School.
Former Banks City Council member Don Gianetti resigned Tuesday morning for personal, primarily work-related reasons, he said in a resignation letter obtained in a public records request by the Banks Post.
Thousands of Oregonians submitted letters opposing a Republican senator’s long-shot attempt to ask voters whether to repeal the state’s decades-old mail voting law, swamping the Legislature’s website on Monday. In Banks, Buxton, and Manning, testimony was split.
An open house for the Highway 6 and Aerts Road Roundabout is open through April 15. See project details, like how the state highway department designed for Banks' log truck, tractor, and semi traffic.
