The Washington County Board of Commissioners will host the first of four quarterly county Town Halls scheduled this year Thursday, February 23, focusing on the countys budget development process and financial challenges facing the county.�
Bert Pixler kills a sick cow and Bill Hundley kills his riding pony on the same day in Fir Creek: "An unlucky day," writes a 1923 journalist. This and more in this week's edition of Dispatches from History, chronicling 1923 in Gales Creek, Banks, and beyond.
A bear scratches a Gales Creek man, snow closes the mill in West Timber, an 80 acre farm in Buxton goes up for sale and more in this week's edition of Dispatches from History, chronicling 1923 in Gales Creek, Banks, and beyond.
Washington County announced the appointment of Mjere Simantel as the new director of Washington County Health and Human Services Thursday, January 19.�
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
