The Gales Creek Journal is merging with News in the Grove
August 30, 2025
You’ll soon be getting more news coverage, faster, and more consistently — because we’re merging the Gales Creek Journal with News in the Grove.
A governor’s planned visit to the rural Kansas City neighborhood was the talk of the town in 1925.
A crash in Glenwood snarled Labor Day weekend traffic for up to three miles and resulted in minor injuries to at least four people, Forest Grove Fire & Rescue said Saturday.
Gales Creek Road will close near Thornburg Road starting Aug. 27 as county contractors begin work replacing one of two culverts carrying White Creek, a Gales Creek tributary.
The Oregon Department of Forestry closed the North Fork Wolf Creek Shooting Lanes in the Tillamook State Forest this week to tackle maintenance and fire prevention work at the site.
For two days this week, part of Gales Creek’s downtown was transformed into Indiana, and the Gales Creek Community Church of God converted to Catholicism.
That is, for a film being shot in the area.
Ninety-two years ago on Aug. 14, 1933 a logging crew at the end of a railroad spur in the upper reaches of the Gales Creek Watershed sparked a wildfire. That spark became the Tillamook Burn. It changed Oregon forever: altering the economy, giving rise to communities and decimating others, changing[Read More…]
In 1925, a group of Gales Creek schoolchildren were the judges of a livestock competition. This and more in the news of a century ago!
A recent rulemaking process from the Department of Land and Conservation Development could have limited what can be sold at farm stands, but an outsized public response to the potential rules put the process on an indefinite pause.
A trailer was destroyed early Wednesday morning at a vineyard in Gales Creek, along with lumber being used to build a new home.