Before there was a Banks BBQ, there was the Banks Hog and Dairy Show.
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Dispatches from history: Western Washington County September 20, 1923
One century ago: A Ku Klux Klan gathering just northwest of Forest Grove drew members “from Portland and many surrounding towns” and more in this week’s edition of Dispatches from History in Banks, Gales Creek, Buxton, and beyond from September 20, 1923.
Dispatches from history: Western Washington County September 13, 1923
A Banks man and his vehicle are struck by a train, a logging camp is for sale and more in this week’s edition of Dispatches from History in Banks, Gales Creek, Buxton, and beyond from September 6, 1923.
COLUMN | Protecting Floodplains on the Tualatin River
“Flooding is a normal part of our waterways,” writes TSWCD Education & Outreach Specialist Adriana Lovell. “When houses and things that are meant to stay dry are built too close to these seasonally wet places, trouble abounds.”
Dispatches from history: Western Washington County September 6, 1923
The Banks Hog and Dairy Show is prepared, the Gales Creek Road gets a fresh coat of paint, and more in this week’s edition of Dispatches from History in Banks, Gales Creek, Buxton, and beyond from September 6, 1923.
Dispatches from history: Western Washington County August 10, 1923
A train crash near Buxton, a judge vacations in the Gales Creek-area neighborhood of Watts, and more in this week’s edition of Dispatches from History in Banks, Gales Creek, Buxton, and beyond from August 10, 1923.
Dispatches from history: Western Washington County August 2, 1923
Clapshaw, Love, and Hundley are just a handful of the family names scattered throughout this week’s edition of Dispatches from History in Banks, Gales creek, Buxton, and beyond from August 2, 1923.
Dispatches from history: Western Washington County July 26, 1923
1933 technology for wildfire prevention? A platform built 70 feet up a tree and “strong field glasses.”
That and more in this week’s edition of Dispatches from History.
Dispatches from history: Western Washington County July 19, 1923
A tale as old as time: a dance in Dilley is “Gents 75¢, ladies free.”
That and more in this week’s edition of Dispatches from History.
Letter to the Editor: Fix Highway 6
“How many wrecks and deaths will it take before ODOT gets serious about the dangerous condition of this road,” writes Tillamook property owner Ginny Van Loo in a letter to the editor.