Free Fishing Weekend will return to Oregon on Saturday and Sunday, February 18 and 19 (Presidents Day Weekend), the first of three such Free Fishing Weekends scheduled to be held in 2023.
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.�
Details were scarce following an incident that closed Oak Grove Academy, housed in the old Gales Creek Elementary School, but the school district said damage was done to windows and doors following an incident with a student.
The Oregon Department of Transportation is hosting an in-person and an online open house regarding the safety study of the Highway 6 corridor mandated by the Oregon Legislature in 2022.
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.
The grant, expected to be submitted by the county's Land Use and Transportation department, would ask the United States Department of Transportation for funding to replace two culverts on White Creek, a small, historically fish-bearing stream that enters Gales Creek just south of the Highway 6 and 8
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.
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.
Starting immediately (he's already written two stories for us), you'll see a new byline on some stories published in this newspaper. Please join me in welcoming Jake Moore.
A crash near the summit of the Coast Range on Highway 6 Saturday has resulted in a closure at milepost 33 until law enforcement and road crews can clear the crash and ODOT deems the highway safe to travel on.
Forest Grove Fire & Rescue took nearly 5,000 calls in 2022, with about 13% of them in the Forest Grove Rural Fire Protection District, which includes Gales creek, Glenwood, Dilley, and more.
