Gales Creek Journal Weekly Newsletter | June 7, 2025
�Volume 1, issue #5
Good evening, Gales Creek Journal readers! This newsletter contains this week's news, and an important notice
Golf ball sized hail possible, live music at the Gales Creek Tavern, a neighborhood gathering inside the Gales Creek School and more in this week's newsletter!
Heading to Banks from Gales Creek? Take a different route while a fallen tree is cleared from Highway 6 west of Banks. Check Tripcheck for live traffic updates.
Following steep declines in school attendance in the immediate aftermath of the pandemic, Oregon students are slowly beginning to show up more regularly to class and a growing number of ninth graders are on track to graduate on time.�
"A cougar on Gales Peak is making night hideous with his cries and every dog in the neighborhood answers with a mighty chorus," an entry from the November 15, 1923 Watts neighborhood column reads. This and more in news from a century ago in Gales Creek.
A review of the dirt and plank road between Forest Grove and Astoria. This and more in this week's edition of Dispatches from History, chronicling 1923 in Gales Creek, Banks, and beyond.
A face mask. File photo: Chas Hundley
OREGON - Washington County was approved for reopening under Oregon Governor Kate Browns phase one reopening plan in late May, and businesses
