A private fish hatchery near Mountaindale provides 5,000 trout to a Gales Creek man, and an accused moonshiner takes his own life in this week's dispatches from history.
After two weeks battling wildfires in Texas, a strike team sent by the Oregon Department of Forestry headed homeand were immediately replaced by a second team of Oregon firefighters, including two local firefighters based out of the Forest Grove District.
A century ago, the Banks American Legion had a membership drive, and the Gales Creek Stage meant there were better mass transit options in the valley than there are today.
The Forest Grove School Board has whittled 30 applicants down to five for the soon-to-be-vacated position of Forest Grove School District Superintendent.
Fire crews from the Oregon Department of Forestry, including one local firefighter based out of the Forest Grove District, are still in Texas as of Monday, helping other fire agencies battle deadly wildfires that have wracked the state.
Three men in the Washington County Jail on various charges related to moonshine and Prohibition escaped via the roof, "swinging to trees" in 1924. This and more in the news of a century ago.
Exactly one year ago, Washington County Land Use and Transportation made the decision to close Timber Road indefinitely due to a slow-moving landslide collapsing the roadway between Glenwood and Timber. Here's where the project to repair and reopen the road stands (Story is free; please consider a s
Forest Grove solves a problem with the help of Gales Creek, a Banks man establishes a hospital in Forest Grove and more from a century ago in the news.
