Heading to Banks from Gales Creek? Take a different route while a fallen tree is cleared from Highway 6 west of Banks. Check Tripcheck for live traffic updates.
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Oregon school attendance inches up and ninth graders on track to graduate, new data reveals
Following steep declines in school attendance in the immediate aftermath of the pandemic, Oregon students are slowly beginning to show up more regularly to class and a growing number of ninth graders are on track to graduate on time.
The gates are open at Fern Hill Road
After a weeklong closure, Fern Hill Road on the edge of Forest Grove has reopened.
Dispatches from history: Western Washington County November 15, 1923
“A cougar on Gales Peak is making night hideous with his cries and every dog in the neighborhood answers with a mighty chorus,” an entry from the November 15, 1923 Watts neighborhood column reads. This and more in news from a century ago in Gales Creek.
Dispatches from history: Western Washington County May 31, 1923
A review of the dirt and plank road between Forest Grove and Astoria. This and more in this week’s edition of Dispatches from History, chronicling 1923 in Gales Creek, Banks, and beyond.
Gov. Brown announces phase two reopening guidelines
A face mask. File photo: Chas Hundley OREGON – Washington County was approved for reopening under Oregon Governor Kate Brown’s phase one reopening plan in late May, and businesses in western Washington County began taking tentative steps into a different world on June 1. Slimmer hours, social distancing, and more[Read More…]
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