With mid-90s temperatures in the forecast, area officials are gearing up for a spell of dangerously hot weather that will elevate wildfire risk this weekend.
Firefighters will light a donated home ablaze at the corner of NW Kansas City Road and Hillside Road Saturday, giving new recruits a rare opportunity to experience live fire in a training context.
On Tuesday, May 16, polls will close on another special district election. That night and the following days after, ballotspicked up from ballot boxes, trickling in through the mailwill be counted, tallied, and the next batch of citizens who threw their hat into the ring to represent local residen
A group of volunteers more than a dozen strong pitched in to help landscape the grounds at the Gales Creek Fire Station Saturday in anticipation of a celebration to mark the building's 50th anniversary next month.
"Help protect our forests from fire," a timely message valid today as it was in 1923. This and more in this week's edition of Dispatches from History, chronicling 1923 in Gales Creek, Banks, and beyond.
A work party is expected to take place this morning, Saturday May 6 at 10 a.m. at the Gales Creek Fire Station to prepare the grounds for the building's 50th anniversary in June. Event organizers asked that volunteers bring gloves and gardening tools.
Moonshine, landslides, and the Banks American Legion sells chicks to raise funds for new building. This and more in this week's edition of Dispatches from History, chronicling 1923 in Gales Creek, Banks, and beyond.
