Thornburg Road will close for second culvert project
Gales Creek Road, currently closed, will open, and Thornburg Road, currently open, will close Sept. 16 as the county steams ahead on a dual-culvert replacement project.
Thornburg Road will close Tuesday, Sept. 16 in Gales Creek to begin the replacement of a second culvert on White Creek in the area. The closure is expected to last through Oct. 2.
Gales Creek Road closed Aug. 27 for the first culvert replacement project, and is scheduled to reopen Sept. 16.
The latest road closure will see Thornburg Road close just south of Gales Creek Road.
The Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, the neighborhood in this case being the Balm Grove neighborhood in Gales Creek, has been spotted in the area of Parson Road, often on foot or on his Spider-Bike, for much of this year. Now he's on Google Maps.
A 22-year-old driver died in a single vehicle crash on Gales Creek Road between David Hill Road and Roderick Road on Friday, Oct. 24, the Washington County Sheriff's Office said in an email to News in the Grove.
Renewal levies for the county's library system and the Washington County Sheriff's Office were on track to pass in the initial election results released at 8 p.m.
The Washington County Board of Commissioners voted to declare two separate states of emergency in response to federal actions, one over food insecurity and the other over a sharp increase in ICE activity in the county.
