Column - News in the Grove

Column | Forest Grove Police Stats for October 2025

"In the month of October 2025, we serviced 1,194 calls total," writes the Forest Grove Police Department in this month's roundup of stats from September 2025. Read more inside.

By Chas Hundley

/ 3 Nov 2025

Column | Forest Grove Police Stats for October 2025

Column | 1925 in Forest Grove: Pacific University president becomes dishwasher in Gales Creek cabin

"...He made an excellent dish washer," and other tidbits of life in western Washington County in 1925.

By Chas Hundley

/ 16 Oct 2025

Column | 1925 in Forest Grove: Pacific University president becomes dishwasher in Gales Creek cabin

Column | 1925 in Forest Grove: Pacific University writer urges construction of Wilson River route

A route connecting Forest Grove and Tillamook via Gales Creek: "The Wilson river road must be put over."

By Chas Hundley

/ 10 Sep 2025

Column | 1925 in Forest Grove: Pacific University writer urges construction of Wilson River route

1925 in Gales Creek: Gales Creek schoolchildren judge livestock

In 1925, a group of Gales Creek schoolchildren were the judges of a livestock competition. This and more in the news of a century ago!

By Chas Hundley

/ 14 Aug 2025

1925 in Gales Creek: Gales Creek schoolchildren judge livestock

1925: Road linking Forest Grove, Tillamook 'wanted any way' by Gales Creek residents

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.

By Chas Hundley

/ 6 Aug 2025

1925: Road linking Forest Grove, Tillamook 'wanted any way' by Gales Creek residents

1925 in Gales Creek: Balm Grove dance results in arrests after booze found

"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.

By Chas Hundley

/ 1 Aug 2025

1925 in Gales Creek: Balm Grove dance results in arrests after booze found

1925 in Forest Grove: Before there was a Verboort Sausage Festival, Chicken was king

The Verboort... Chicken Dinner? You heard me.

By Chas Hundley

/ 23 Jul 2025

1925 in Forest Grove: Before there was a Verboort Sausage Festival, Chicken was king

1925 in Gales Creek: 'A score or more' of Gales Creek farmers plan Tillamook trip for toll road discussion

Gales Creek farmers were deeply invested in a route that would cut from Forest Grove through Gales Creek to Tillamook. Today, portions of that route have become the Wilson River Highway, and Old Wilson River Road in Gales Creek.

By Chas Hundley

/ 23 Jul 2025

1925 in Gales Creek: 'A score or more' of Gales Creek farmers plan Tillamook trip for toll road discussion

Gales Creek in 1925: Bridge over Gales Creek collapses

"A light truck came close to having a bath, but figuratively writing was able to hold on with its front feet," was the story from a 1925 bridge collapse in Gales Creek.

By Chas Hundley

/ 16 Jul 2025

Gales Creek in 1925: Bridge over Gales Creek collapses

Gales Creek Journal brings in summer intern Jordan Donegan

Starting in July, Jordan Donegan, a Portland native and journalism student out of Fordham University will be joining the Gales Creek Journal & Banks Post to hone her skills as a journalist before her return to New York in the fall. While most of Donegan's work will be done in Forest Grove, you'll se

By Chas Hundley

/ 12 Jul 2025

Gales Creek Journal brings in summer intern Jordan Donegan

1925 in Gales Creek: Picnics abound and the Valley prepares for becoming a bulb producer

1925 in Gales Creek: Picnics abound and the Valley prepares for becoming a bulb producer.

By Chas Hundley

/ 11 Jul 2025

1925 in Gales Creek: Picnics abound and the Valley prepares for becoming a bulb producer

1925 in Gales Creek: To avoid European narcissus bulb embargo, Gales Creek farm hosts 'extensive plantings'

Two boilermakers killed enroute to Gales Creek, Gales Creek's Thornburgh property to host "extensive plantings" of narcissus bulbs to avoid European embargo of bulbs and more in this week's dispatched from history.

By Chas Hundley

/ 4 Jul 2025

1925 in Gales Creek: To avoid European narcissus bulb embargo, Gales Creek farm hosts 'extensive plantings'