Gales Creek Journal Independence Day Newsletter | July 4, 2025
July 4, 2025
Chief urges rural fire board to take ownership, a Gales Creek resident skips oath of office to fight wildfire, a list of Gales Creek roads with paving coming soon and more in this week’s email newsletter.
During Wednesday’s Forest Grove Rural Fire Protection District meeting, Forest Grove Fire & Rescue Chief Jim Geering said he would be encouraging the board to take additional ownership of their own agenda.
Travelers should be prepared for a number of construction projects coming to rural western Washington County roads in July and August.
In an email to ODOT staff Saturday, Director Kris Strickler said the agency will be forced to eliminate hundreds of position.
The U.S. Department of Labor hauled Pamplin—the former owner of the Forest Grove News-Times—back into U.S. District Court in Portland, alleging he had failed to comply with two key conditions of the agreement he signed in December to settle a federal civil lawsuit against him.
Two boilermakers killed enroute to Gales Creek, Gales Creek’s Thornburgh property to host “extensive plantings” of narcissus bulbs to avoid European embargo of bulbs and more in this week’s dispatched from history.
Gales Creek resident Neal Hammond was set to take his seat on the Forest Grove Rural Fire Protection District Board Wednesday night. Instead, he was on wildfire duty near Hermiston.
In advance of Independence Day, the Oregon Department of Forestry is raising fire danger from low to moderate in areas in and around the Tillamook Forest and near Gales Creek.
The Oregon Department of Emergency Management is urging Oregonians to be vigilant in the face of a National Terrorism Advisory System (NTAS) Bulletin
warning of a heightened threat environment amid the Israel-Iran war and U.S. airstrikes on Iran.
At 12:01 a.m. on Monday, June 23, fire season will begin in lands protected by the Oregon Department of Forestry in the Northwest Oregon Forest Protective Association (NWOFPA ), which includes areas in and near the Tillamook State Forest.