Gales Creeks Dorman Pond once a gravel pit, now a pond home to trout, bluegill, at least one turtle, and a lot of lost fishing lures will receive 1,000 legal-size rainbow trout sometime between April 15 and 19.
The Gales Creek Strawberry Festival will return Saturday, June 15 after a four-year hiatus with live music, vendors, food carts, and, of course, strawberry shortcake.
Gov. Tina Kotek on Monday signed into law the sweeping measure the Oregon Legislature passed to combat the states fentanyl drug addiction and overdose crisis.
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.
The Jewell School District in the Clatsop State Forest predicts it could lose nearly $1 million in revenue if a plan to scale back logging is implemented.
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.
