Oct 19 2020 thru Oct 25 2020

Ballot returns in Washington County as of 12 p.m. Friday, October 23 numbered 106,660, an amount representing about 27.7% of the total number of registered voters in the county, according to the Washington County elections office.

Ballot returns in Washington County as of 9:09 a.m. Thursday, October 22 numbered 73,803, an amount representing about 19.2% of the total number of registered voters in the county, according to the office of the Oregon Secretary of State. Read on for a party-by-party breakdown of those votes.

Another letter regarding the Oregon House District 32, which includes Banks, Gales Creek, Gaston, and the North Coast.

Oregon Ballot Measure 107 would change Oregon’s Constitution to limit campaign contributions both in cash contributions and service rendered for in-kind contributions.

Another tradition falls prey to the coronavirus pandemic, but families and children can still celebrate in style with a mini pumpkin and candy handout on Halloween at the Gales Creek School.

Another set of errors by the Washington County Elections department has been discovered in election materials, this time in the form of random “yes” and “no” statements placed in the explanation text of four statewide measures on the ballot.

Washington County's election department said that by Friday — two days after ballots were mailed — a total of 1,252 ballots had been returned. This, how a proofing error in the voters guide cost the county nearly $3,000, and more inside.

This week's installment of the Esther Lilly Hundley diaries: More calf selling, the Oregonian man comes around, and fishing is a success, just a few snapshots of life in Gales Creek in 1931.