It was standing room only at the Forest Grove Community Auditorium Monday evening as residents, city staff, volunteers, students from the Forest Grove High School, and visiting dignitaries from other cities and governments gathered to hear Forest Grove's State of the City address.
Sen. Wyden and U.S. Rep. Bonamici brought crowds to their town halls this week. News in the Grove asked four Forest Grove residents, and Rep. Bonamici, what their takeaways were.
"The city is doing due diligence with all of our partners to find out the status of funding for all our projects with federal funds," Forest Grove City Manager Jesse VanderZanden said in a phone call with News in the Grove.
Oregon leaders were scrambling Tuesday morning after an announcement from the Trump administration that it was at least temporarily freezing many federal funds, a move that could hit every level of government.
Oregons new attorney general took office a few days early on New Years Eve, repeating his oath of office before the same federal judge who presided over his criminal mischief and reckless endangerment case nearly three decades earlier.
The sole United States Postal Service mail collection box in Gales Creek is gone. In a phone call with the Gales Creek Journal, Forest Grove Post Office Postmaster Andre Nguyen said the box was removed due to vandalism and lack of use, but said there could be a new box with antitheft measures placed
Washington County residents who want the Oregon Legislature to hear directly from them on local transportation system needslike Highway 6 safety issueswill have an opportunity to do just that Sept. 27 in Hillsboro at the final stop of a listening tour by the Joint Committee on Transportation.
