On Wednesday, Main Street in Forest Grove will close to vehicle traffic between Pacific Avenue and 21st Avenue. Stalls and booths will go up, and the first Forest Grove Farmers Market of the season will begin. Find several Banks-area booths at the market on opening day and beyond!
Promising the best steak dinner in rural Washington County, the St. Francis Steak Dinner and Antique Tractor Show is held from 11:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. on the grounds of the St. Francis Catholic Church and the adjacent school.
Banks City Councilor Don Giannetti resigned Tuesday, according to an item added to the city council’s meeting agenda. He was just four months into what would have been his first full term on the council.
Breakfast for $5 - $7, fire truck rides for kids, info on keeping your home safe from wildfires, and more are on tap at the Annual Banks Firefighters Association Community Breakfast March 9 from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.
A reminder to slow down in school zones, an update on a Banks burglary, and more in this month's police report written by deputies serving the city of Banks.
After abandoning a statewide "wildfire risk map" first published in 2022 and going back to the drawing board, a new draft map has been released to the public for input. In this part of Oregon, no properties are expected to be affected by defensible space or fire-hardening building codes because ther
Move over, CPO 14: the Gales Creek, Roy and Verboort-area Community Participation Organization (enumerated as CPO 13) is also in the process of launching, just weeks after CPO 14 officially launched.
Contractors working near the fence line of the Banks Elementary School struck a gas line Thursday morning, the Banks School District said in a district-wide alert. "Please avoid the area and do not try to come pick up your students at this time," Banks Fire said.
Missing for almost exactly a year, the body of Ralph Brown, 77, was found along with his missing car in the Willamette River near Newberg.
The former Hillsboro School District
