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After fire destroyed the Timber school, a $6,000, up to three room replacement was under consideration. This and more in the news of a century ago from 1925!
The Duycks are having a moment: Jeff Duyck, driving the Hulk, took first place in the Banks BBQ combine derby, and his wife Candace Duyck made history with her entry into the male-dominated derby in ‘Wonder Woman’
The Oregon Department of Forestry closed the North Fork Wolf Creek Shooting Lanes in the Tillamook State Forest this week to tackle maintenance and fire prevention work at the site.
The first day of the Banks BBQ is underway, and the day’s flagship event, a Texas hold ’em tournament, is bigger than it has ever been.
For two days this week, part of Gales Creek’s downtown was transformed into Indiana, and the Gales Creek Community Church of God converted to Catholicism.
That is, for a film being shot in the area, which also considered shooting on Cedar Canyon and Greenville Road.
Ninety-two years ago on Aug. 14, 1933 a logging crew at the end of a railroad spur in the upper reaches of the Gales Creek Watershed sparked a wildfire.
That spark became the Tillamook Burn.
After fire destroyed the Timber school, a $6,000, up to three room replacement was under consideration. This and more in the news of a century ago from 1925!
A recent rulemaking process from the Department of Land and Conservation Development could have limited what can be sold at farm stands, but an outsized public response to the potential rules put the process on an indefinite pause.
“The amount of traffic exiting the city was an amount never seen here before,” and other items from this month’s Banks Police Log!
“Bald-faced hornet” might sound like a schoolyard insult, but in fact, it’s a real hornet species and they’re in Banks’ Greenville Park.
Banks firefighters will appear at the upcoming annual Banks BBQ to collect donations for the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA), officials say. The annual Banks BBQ will take place this weekend and the Banks Fire District will be collecting funds for the “MDA FILL THE BOOT CAMPAIGN,” a program that raises[Read More…]
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