Oregon Department of Transportation
“Today, 483 current ODOT employees will be notified that they will be laid off as of July 31,” Strickler wrote in the email at 8:37 am. Monday.
Forest Grove
🔥 Fire danger rose just in time for the holiday 🏫 Three new Forest Grove School Board members sworn in 🏳️🌈 Forest Grove Pride Celebration 2025 will span three events in July ...and so much more in this week's newsletter.
Forest Grove
The Forest Grove community will celebrate and recognize the LGBTQ+ community with the Forest Grove Pride Celebration 2025, three events scheduled for July 12 and 13.
Gaston
Offering a weekend of “exceptional live music, warm community vibes, and the magic of camping beneath the stars in Oregon’s picturesque wine country,” the Festival of Friends PNW will be returning for its third year this month.
Forest Grove
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.
Oregon Department of Transportation
In an email to ODOT staff Saturday, Director Kris Strickler said the agency will be forced to eliminate hundreds of positions.
Pamplin
The U.S. Department of Labor hauled Pamplin—the former owner of the Forest Grove News-Times—back into U.S. District Court in Portland, alleging he had failed to comply with two key conditions of the agreement he signed in December to settle a federal civil lawsuit against him.
Forest Grove
A century ago: The city of Forest Grove continues to grapple with a water shortage.
Forest Grove
Gales Creek resident Neal Hammond was set to take his seat on the Forest Grove Rural Fire Protection District Board Wednesday night. Instead, he was on wildfire duty near Hermiston called away at the last minute. Forest Grove Fire & Rescue also sent two personnel to the fire.
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In advance of Independence Day, the Oregon Department of Forestry is raising fire danger from low to moderate in areas in and around the Tillamook Forest and near Forest Grove.
During a short Forest Grove School Board meeting held Tuesday afternoon, three new members of the Forest Grove School Board—Brisa Franco, Peter Truax, and Alma Lozano—were sworn into office.
"As the saying goes, police officers and firefighters have one thing in common, they both want to be firefighters," said Forest Grove Fire & Rescue after police put out a fence fire before fire crews could arrive.
Smoke rising into a hot summer day in the general vicinity of Thatcher Park was from a field fire, now extinguished, near Plum Hill Lane on the city's northwestern border.
Three Forest Grove fireworks stories, a Forest Grove man dies in a crash near Fernhill Wetlands, Festival of the Arts is back, and so much more in this week's newsletter.
Bluegrass, theatre, indigenous-focused jazz, barbershop music, art and more are on tap for the third round of the Forest Grove Festival of the Arts. Open the story for a full schedule and an interactive view of what to expect!
A Forest Grove man died in a single-vehicle crash Saturday evening near the intersection of Southwest Fern Hill Road and Southwest Geiger Road.
Forest Grove American Legion Post 2 will offer what they have a dubbed a "PTSD Sanctuary" to veterans affected by fireworks in the group's Legion Hall at 21st Avenue and Main Street.
Banks' Independence Day celebrations, from a free event held on the grounds of Sunset Park, races at Sunset Speedway, to fireworks overhead that evening are sure to draw crowds.
"Only 18 inches of water in the city reservoir," was the headline on the front page in 1925.
The Oregon Department of Emergency Management is urging Oregonians to be vigilant in the face of a National Terrorism Advisory System (NTAS) Bulletin warning of a heightened threat environment amid the Israel-Iran war and U.S. airstrikes on Iran.
"There is no need to post blame, the thing has happened, and the people involved, as well as the witnesses to this horrific scene, will never have that day gone from their minds," said Forest Grove Fire & Rescue Public Information Officer Dave Nemeyer in a social media post made Friday.
