More in Column: Dispatches from History: ‘Road to sea’ debate falters on January 15, 1925 January 15, 2025; Dispatches from History: Debate over ‘road to sea’ continues on January 8, 1925 January 9, 2025; Dispatches from History: Skiing in Gales Creek, a new year begins and more on January 1, 1925 January 2, 2025

2024年12月26日 · 9 a.m. update : Highway 6 has reopened according to ODOT. Original story: Overnight winds brough trees down on area roads, littering Highways 26 and 6 with debris and taking out power for Portland General Electric and West Oregon Electric Co-op customers throughout the region.

Oregon Governor Tina Kotek announced the appointment of Elizabeth R. Lemoine to a new seat on the Washington County Circuit Court Friday. Senate Bill 1541 created a 16th Washington County Circuit Court position, up from 15, and added a seat in Clackamas and Jackson Counties, too. The bill was passed during the 2024 short session.

Cal Mukumoto, the head of the Oregon Department of Forestry announced his resignation in a brief letter Thursday, noting his last day would be Jan. 23. “This email is a notice that I am resigning my appointment as State Forester effective 5 pm PST on January 23, 2025. Jim, working for you and the ...

2024年5月2日 · Regardless how this election year goes, the next representative of state House District 31 in northwest Oregon will be a political newcomer. The two Republicans running for their party’s nomination in the May 21 primary, Realtors Darcey Edwards and Aaron Hall, have not previously held elected office.

2024年12月9日 · Timber Road’s estimated reopening date has been delayed five months. Washington County had hoped to open Timber Road at the end of December, but in an update to the project website Monday morning said the reopening date had moved to May 2025. “Our contractor has excavated the slope and is now filling it back in with stronger materials,” Washington County Land Use and Transportation ...

2025年1月15日 · By Nigel Jaquiss, Oregon Journalism Project. Efforts are underway, the Oregon Journalism Project has learned, to unwind one of the great timber fortunes in the state—at the order of the federal government.. On Dec. 26, Dr. Robert Pamplin Jr., 83, settled a lawsuit brought by the U.S. Department of Labor to resolve allegations he treated his company’s pension fund like a piggy bank, selling ...

The Gales Creek Tavern is for sale. The current version of the venerable watering hole in downtown Gales Creek was opened in May 2021 under the ownership of Brian Johnson and Seema Prasad-Bertschy.. Under their ownership, the building was renovated and the menu updated, with traditional tavern offerings — live music, frequent bingo and trivia nights, video lottery and more — on tap.

2024年11月6日 · Representing Oregon’s 1st Congressional District, Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici is headed to another two year’s representing Oregon’s northwest corner in Washington D.C.

Both lanes of Highway 6 at milepost 35 are fully open, a spokesperson for the Oregon Department of Transportation said in an email to this newspaper at 3:45 p.m.