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Coffee in hand, Hillsboro? We've got the latest town updates for you. Keep reading to stay in the loop. ☀️

In today's newsletter:

  • Why Washington County's chair now faces possible censure in Hillsboro
  • How Intel's Hillsboro labs are quietly shaping the next generation of chips
  • Inside Hillsboro's LAIKA studio where Wildwood is painstakingly coming to life

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Today's riddle: What day of the year is trucker's day? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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📰 News we're reading

1. Washington County commissioners warn of censure if chair does not resign after vulgar gesture (kptv.com) — Washington County commissioners meeting in Hillsboro say they'll move to censure Chair Kathryn Harrington if she doesn't resign after she was caught on video making a vulgar gesture toward Commissioner Nafisa Fai. Harrington has stepped back from her duties to seek mental health treatment, while Fai, who's running for the chair's seat, says she hasn't received the personal apology Harrington claims to have offered.
   

2. How Intel Researchers Are Advancing the Chemistry Behind High-NA EUV... (intel.com) — Intel researchers in Hillsboro are developing new photoresist materials that enable the next generation of high‑NA EUV chipmaking, shrinking features on silicon down to about 8 nanometers. Their work fine-tunes ultra-thin, precisely behaving resists that act like temporary "ink," surviving etching and then vanishing so future devices can be smaller, faster, and more energy efficient.
   

3. Witnessing the Wonders of 'Wildwood' at LAIKA Studios – The Nerds of Color (thenerdsofcolor.org) — LAIKA's Wildwood is being crafted right in an industrial complex in Hillsboro, where artists are hand-building puppets, sets, and thousands of 3D-printed faces for the Portland-set fantasy. A visiting journalist details how local craftspeople use cutting-edge tools and painstaking stop-motion techniques to bring Forest Park, St. Johns, and a massive golden eagle character to life before the film's October release.
   

4. From the Sidelines Podcast: Episode 2 featuring Hops President KL Wombacher and college sports reporter Isaac Streeter (hillsboronewstimes.com) — Hillsboro baseball fans can hear Hops president KL Wombacher break down the team's past season, his career, and the new Hops Ballpark's inaugural concert featuring Chicago in a new podcast episode. The show also recaps recent Oregon and Oregon State football games, giving local sports followers extra context on how those results could shape the rest of the season.
   

5. Data center committee sees 'opportunity and risk' in Oregon (koin.com) — Hillsboro residents are at the center of Oregon's fast-moving debate over data centers, with the city adopting a moratorium and facing a lawsuit over tax breaks alongside Washington County. A new state advisory committee report outlines environmental, water, energy, and tax concerns, while Governor Tina Kotek and challenger Christine Drazan pitch sharply different approaches to regulating future projects statewide.
   

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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: 10-4, good buddy! (Thank you Jean H. for sending it in!)
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