Gales Creek - The Banks Post

Search for Thomas Weightman suspended

The search for Forest Grove resident Thomas Weightman, missing since Tuesday, was suspended Sunday evening, the Forest Grove Police Department.

By Chas Hundley

/ 20 Oct 2025

Column | 1925 in Banks: Banks man faces perjury charges over booze stash

Robert Carlson of Banks arrested again after allegedly lying about the booze that totally wasn't hidden in his woodshed during Prohibition and other tidbits of life in 1925 in Banks and beyond.

By Chas Hundley

/ 16 Oct 2025

Column | 1925 in Banks: Banks man faces perjury charges over booze stash

Sheriff's Office asks Gales Creek, Hillside residents to search their properties for missing man

As the search for Thomas Weightman enters a third day, search and rescue teams are asking property owners in the Gales Creek and Hillside areas to search their properties for the missing man. See the full map and more details in the story.

By Chas Hundley

/ 16 Oct 2025

Sheriff's Office asks Gales Creek, Hillside residents to search their properties for missing man

Gales Creek church goes Catholic for film

For two days this week, part of Gales Creek's downtown was transformed into Indiana, and the Gales Creek Community Church of God converted to Catholicism. That is, for a film being shot in the area, which also considered shooting on Cedar Canyon and Greenville Road.

By Chas Hundley

/ 15 Aug 2025

Gales Creek church goes Catholic for film

Dispatches from history: Western Washington County May 11, 1922

Snoop into the lives of people who lived in Gales Creek, Banks, Timber, Kansas City, and other far west rural communities in 1922.

By Chas Hundley

/ 13 May 2022

Dispatches from history: Western Washington County May 11, 1922

Dispatches from history: Western Washington County May 4, 1922

By Chas Hundley

/ 10 May 2022

Dispatches from history: Western Washington County May 4, 1922

Hit-and-run crash leads to search of Gales Creek home believed to be involved in drug trafficking

The staging area for law enforcement responding to the scene in Gales Creek on October 28, 2021. Photo: Chas Hundley Update, 10:15 p.m. Thursday The Washington County Sherriff&

By Chas Hundley

/ 28 Oct 2021

Hit-and-run crash leads to search of Gales Creek home believed to be involved in drug trafficking

Column | The Diaries of Esther Lilly Hundley: Election Day special edition

The farm that Esther Lilly Hundley and her family lived on in Gales Creek Cast of characters --Esther Lilly Hundley & Charles Hundley (written as Charley/Chas), the author of

By Esther Lilly Hundley - Transcribed by Sandra Evans

/ 3 Nov 2020

Column | The Diaries of Esther Lilly Hundley: Election Day special edition

PHOTOS: Local fire agencies conduct training burn in Gales Creek

The little white house burns. Photo: Chas Hundley//Banks Post GALES CREEK - Forest Grove Fire & Rescue, Banks Fire District 13, Gaston Rural Fire Protection District, and the Cornelius

By Chas Hundley

/ 6 Feb 2020

PHOTOS: Local fire agencies conduct training burn in Gales Creek

Gales Creek, Verboort, Roy CPO meetings resume for the season Wednesday, September 11

The Gales Creek Church of God. File photo taken Sept. 10, 2019 by Chas Hundley GALES CREEK - After a summer hiatus, the volunteer-led Community Participation Organization 13 — referred to

By Chas Hundley

/ 10 Sep 2019

Gales Creek, Verboort, Roy CPO meetings resume for the season Wednesday, September 11

Banks American Legion Post renamed in honor of longtime member John Kalmbach

John Kalmbach BANKS - The Banks American Legion officially changed its name to John Kalmbach Post 90, Banks, in memory of the longtime member who passed away April 21, 2019

By By Daniel Pearson - Banks Post

/ 22 Aug 2019

Banks American Legion Post renamed in honor of longtime member John Kalmbach

Forest Grove Fire & Rescue: Motor home sparked small brush fire west of Glenwood

Photo: Forest Grove Fire & Rescue GLENWOOD - Multiple agencies, including Forest Grove Fire & Rescue, Banks Fire District 13, and prison crews from South Fork Forest Camp and more

By Chas Hundley

/ 1 Aug 2019

Forest Grove Fire & Rescue: Motor home sparked small brush fire west of Glenwood