Discover Oregon’s forestry heritage on April 27 at the Tillamook Forest Center. The event, ‘Unearthing Forgotten Forestry Narratives,’ features a presentation from the Vernonia Pioneer Museum and Maxville Heritage Interpretive Center on historic efforts by Oregon foresters.
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COLUMN | The Relief of Defensible Space
Well maintained defensible space makes a huge difference in protecting your home or business during a wildfire.
Gales Creek Garden Club plans church grounds cleanup May 4
The Gales Creek Garden Club will once again clean up the grounds of the Gales Creek Community Church in an all-volunteer effort—with more volunteers sought—to spruce up the downtown anchor on Saturday, May 4 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Forest Grove School District narrows superintendent search to three finalists
The search process for the next Forest Grove School District Superintendent has narrowed to three undisclosed finalists.
Dispatches from history: Western Washington County April 10, 1924
Watts Community Club has chicken dinner, and other comings and goings from April 10, 1924 in Banks and Gales Creek.
What’s going on in Gales Creek this weekend, April 10
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 Creek’s Dorman Pond will be stocked with 1,000 trout next week
Gales Creek’s 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 is coming back
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.
Dispatches from history: Western Washington County April 3, 1924
Attempts to build a highway to the coast continue, a Dilley man chops a fingertip off at the sawmill and more from 1924.
Bird flu detected in cows in several states but not Oregon
Bird flu has been confirmed in cows in Texas, Kansas, Michigan and Idaho, but not Oregon.