The Forest Grove School District said that the Oak Grove Academy campus at the Gales Creek School closed early for the day due to a water main break in the area. It wasn't immediately clear if other customers were without water in Gales Creek.
After causing a crash in Cornelius and near Verboort, a fleeing driver was tackled and arrested after a PIT maneuver was used to force her off Gales Creek Road west of Stringtown Road.
The next meetingand first since the group formally adopted a nameof the Gales Creek Community Club will be held Thursday, April 25 at 6:30 p.m. inside the Gales Creek Library. The Strawberry Festival, National Night Out and more are on the agenda.
The Gales Creek Garden Club will once again clean up the grounds of the Gales Creek Community Church in an all-volunteer effortwith more volunteers soughtto spruce up the downtown anchor on Saturday, May 4 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Live music at, Smokehouse Chicken and Guns this weekend and next will see The Sweet Old Souls, Third Seven, Drunken Prayer, and Johnny Franco & His Real Brother Dom.
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.
