We're pleased to announce that News in the Grove is merging with the Gales Creek Journal, founder and editor Chas Hundley's first news publication.
Read the whole announcement here, but for our News in the Grove readers, you'll see more Gales Creek news and events here moving forward.
Gales Creek lies within the Forest Grove School District, is served by the Forest Grove Rural Fire Protection District, and many residents have a Forest Grove zip code, which I will stress is a system invented to help mail carriers deliver mail in the 60s and 70s and nothing else, so stop complaining that you don't get to vote for Forest Grove city councilors.
Not familiar with Gales Creek? Gales Creek lies immediately to the west of Forest Grove, on, uh, Gales Creek Road. Ask any Gales Creek Person™ what or where Gales Creek is and you'll get a different answer. For me, I choose the most expansive definition: everything in the Gales Creek Watershed is Gales Creek.
Which includes Forest Grove.
Welcome to Gales Creek.
That's right: Gales Creek, a creek named after Joseph Gale, an early pioneer, politician and one of the more interesting figures in Oregon history, actually forms the border of Forest Grove city limits between Ritchey Road and B Street.
Are you on city water? Turn on your tap. That water is from Clear Creek or Roaring Creek or Deep Creek, various Gales Creek tributaries. Fun fact: I used to swim in the city's watershed as a kid. The city did not have very good signage in the early 2000s. Sorry.
The Gales Creek Journal has traditionally covered news in Gales Creek, Glenwood, Hillside and Watts, as well as some news and events in the Tillamook Forest.
Anyway, that's the announcement! Thanks for reading.
Chas Hundley, News in the Grove founder, and person who may have peed in Forest Grove's drinking water supply as a child but will neither confirm nor deny.
