The sun near Mountaindale on July 31, 2017. Beginning November 1, you'll see less of it in the evening. Photo: Chas Hundley
Sunday, November 1 will have 25 hours instead of the usual 24 as the end of daylight saving time happens at 2 a.m., rolling back to 1 a.m. for a do over of the past hour. In other words, set your clock back one hour before you go to bed on Halloween night if youre using a clock that doesnt automatically tick to the turning tides of a tradition that made its way to the U.S. by 1918. On the plus side, it means one hour of extra sleep.It also means theres one more hour until the election is finally ended on November 3. For most Oregonians and our neighbors in Washington and California, this may be the last time daylight saving time ends after the passage of Oregon Senate Bill 320 in the 2019 session of the Oregon Legislature dictated that DST would become permanent, with a big caveat. The law first had to be mirrored by Washington and California; both of the respective states passed similar laws, fulfilling that requirement, but for the law to take effect, the United States Congress must also approve the change, a move that appears to have bipartisan support in Washington D.C.The bill exempts that portion of Oregon that follows Idahos Mountain Time Zone due their economic landscape more closely following Idahos capital of Boise than the rest of Oregon. SB 320 gives a deadline of December 1, 2029 for Congress to approve the changes.
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.
State Representative Susan McLain, representing Forest Grove and other western Washington County locales, will host her first town hall of the post-2025 legislative session Tuesday, July 22 from 4 to 5:30 p.m. at the Cornelius Public Library.
During Wednesday's Forest Grove Rural Fire Protection District meeting, Forest Grove Fire & Rescue Chief Jim Geering said he would be encouraging the board to take additional ownership of their own agenda.
A proposed toll road linking Forest Grove and Tillamook faced opposition, but Gales Creek residents would take any road they could get, according to a 1925 newspaper article.
"County Jail Filled to Overflow With Arrests Made" including Ernest Narver, Frank Kearns, Thomas Young, and Roy Kearns, all arrested at Balm Grove on liquor possession charges in Prohibition-era Gales Creek.
People are shooting exploding targets and firing hot lead into dry vegetation in the Tillamook Forest with predictable results: Five wildfires since May. These fires are all preventable, said Acting Forest Grove District Forester Stephanie Beall.
