A Fir Creek resident heads to Timber to do some blacksmithing, a telephone company starts in Vernonia, and more in this week’s edition of Dispatches from History, chronicling 1923 in Gales Creek, Banks, and beyond.
Washington County
Low-income households in unincorporated Washington County may get 75% off garbage bill
Live in Gales Creek, qualify for SNAP benefits, and pay for garbage and recycle service directly? You may qualify for 75% off your garbage bill.
Dispatches from history: Western Washington County January 4, 1923
A barn collapses in Gales Creek, the community gossip, and more in this week’s edition of Dispatches from History, the first of 1923.
Wyden plans town hall for Washington County residents
In Washington County, constituents will have an opportunity to see, hear from, and ask questions of Oregon’s senior Senator Thursday, January 12, starting at 2 pm at the Conestoga Recreation
Center, located in Beaverton at 9985 SW 125th Ave.
Dispatches from history: Western Washington County December 28, 1922
Less murder, more community happenings in this week’s edition of Dispatches from History, the last of 1922. Next week, a new year of the “Roaring Twenties” begins in 1923!
Dispatches from history: Western Washington County December 21, 1922
A 17-year-old Cedar Canyon resident, formerly of the Groveland community on Gales Creek, confesses to the murder of a Hayward hermit in this week’s edition of Dispatches from History.
As ice storm bears down on region, Washington County opens shelters
Washington County said it would activate its Severe Weather Shelters in Hillsboro and Beaverton in the face of life-threatening cold temperatures expected to grip the region.
The facilities will each open Wednesday, December 21 at 4 p.m. until at least Saturday, December 24 at 12 p.m.
County seeks western Washington County resident to join local transportation commission
Are you interested in transportation—be that highways, public transit, trails, or other— in Gales Creek and the rest of western Washington County? A little-known commission called the North West Area Commission on Transportation (NWACT) is seeking a new member from western Washington County.
County opens two Severe Weather Shelters starting Friday
Washington County said it would activate its Severe Weather Shelters in Hillsboro and Beaverton in the face of cold temperatures gripping the region.
Dispatches from history: Western Washington County December 14, 1922
A century ago in western Washington County: Snow inundates the region, the Nick C. Lilly store in Gales Creek sells, the Vernonia stagecoach through Timber can’t get through and more!
