"If youre interested in making a difference in your community, this is your chance," FGF&R said, noting that no firefighting experience was needed to apply to be a volunteer firefighter.
The Gales Creek National Night Out, on hiatus since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, is coming back. A meeting Thursday evening at the Gales Creek Library is hoping to draw volunteers to help.
A play in Gales Creek to fund running water at the cemetery, the old school building goes up for sale, and more in this week's edition of Dispatches from History.
The latest town hall for Washington County residents to meet with Oregon's junior Senator Jeff Merkley (D-Oregon) will be held in Hillsboro Saturday, July 15 at 1 p.m.
Is your last name Heesacker, Vanderzanden, Vandehey, Clapshaw, or Campbell? Find out what your family was up to a century ago in Roy, Banks, Manning, Gales Creek, and more in this week's edition of Dispatches from History.
As families prepare to celebrate Independence Day with the traditional lighting of explosives, fire and weather agencies are warning of other explosive conditions: The potential for wildfires to ignite and spread fast Tuesday and Wednesday.
Chamber visits mill in Gales Creek, and Earnest Lyda climbs 200 feet up a tree. This and much more in this week's edition of Dispatches from History, chronicling 1923 in Gales Creek, Banks, and beyond.
The Oregon Department of Forestry said fire danger would be raised to "Moderate" (blue) in the Northwest Oregon Forest Protective Association (NWOFPA) region Thursday morning.
Gov. Tina Kotek tapped LaVonne Griffin-Valade, a longtime government auditor in the Portland area, to become Oregons next secretary of state, an appointment that marks the end of a tumultuous chapter for the office following the resignation of Secretary of State�Shemia Fagan�in early May amid a moo
As the region barrels toward a 90 plus degree Independence Day, a local state forestry official said that five wildfires of note have already burned in the Northwest Oregon Forest Protective Association (NWOFPA) region.
An open house at the Balm Grove property along Gales Creek will be held Thursday July 6 from 4 to 7 p.m. to showcase restoration efforts following the removal of the Balm Grove Dam last fall.
