Former Banks High School teacher Wymon Wayne Smith, 67, pleaded guilty to two sexual abuse counts Wednesday morning and was sentenced to more than six years in prison.
In the month of December 2025, the Forest Grove Police Department serviced 1,805 calls total. This and more in the stats for the final month of the year.
A proposed toll road linking Forest Grove and Tillamook faced opposition, but Gales Creek residents would take any road they could get, according to a 1925 newspaper article.
"County Jail Filled to Overflow With Arrests Made" including Ernest Narver, Frank Kearns, Thomas Young, and Roy Kearns, all arrested at Balm Grove on liquor possession charges in Prohibition-era Gales Creek.
People are shooting exploding targets and firing hot lead into dry vegetation in the Tillamook Forest with predictable results: Five wildfires since May. These fires are all preventable, said Acting Forest Grove District Forester Stephanie Beall.
