Local voters will have the chance to decide this November if a two-year moratorium within the Banks city limits should be placed on the manufacture of psilocybin products and the opening of mental health clinics that administer psilocybin to patients.
The deadline to run for city office in Banks closes at 1 p.m. Wednesday, August 24. Four positions are open this year; the position of mayor and three council seats.
In this column, we take a look back one hundred years ago in western Washington County. This week, a logging camp opens near Glenwood, a new bridge over Gales Creek in Watts, and more!
Betsy Johnson’s months-long campaign to make it on the November ballot culminated Tuesday with volunteers stacking 17 boxes of signature sheets in a set of wire cage shelves at the Oregon Secretary of State’s Office.
Restrictions in areas protected by the Oregon Department of Forestry in much of Northwest Oregon will increase again Tuesday in the face of increasing fire danger, moving from moderate to high fire danger.
With deputies walking along behind, a man wanted for stealing a car led a low speed pursuit Sunday in an excavator at a logging site north of Buxton, police say.
The Hillsboro Hops will hold a joint community night for Banks and North Plains Wednesday, August 17, and Banks Mayor Stephanie Jones is expected to throw out the first pitch.
The Tillamook Forest Center is expected to open next year in March. “We are anxious to reopen and host visitors with smiles and an overdue hello,” the center said.
"Two juveniles trespassed on the mill property and caused damage while building "forts" in the wood stacks. Both juveniles were identified, and some very upset parents handled the discipline and worked with the mill manager to find a resolution to the incident," this month's police log notes.
In this column, we take a look back one hundred years ago in western Washington County. This week, Vernonia's first newspaper flies, gossip from Gales Creek, and a detailed account of two gravel trucks and the "antics" they get up to.
