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Lone Fir Tree Farm opens – and closes – this weekend
Blink and you’ll miss it: Gales Creek’s Lone Fir Tree Farm opened Friday for business, and it’ll close for the season on Saturday. This year, you can get a tree, a wreath, and a burger.
Oregonians can start to apply for paid work leave next month
Oregon workers can apply for benefits through the state’s new paid leave program starting Aug. 14.
The program, Paid Leave Oregon, covers family leave, medical leave and safe leave for Oregonians with jobs.
Gales Creek’s newest restaurant on track for June opening
where new property owner Dustin Knox, a former Portland restaurateur who now makes his home in Gales Creek, has been spearheading the build out of the location in preparation of opening the Chicken and Guns Smokehouse on the Wilson River Highway.
With revenues up $725 million, Oregon taxpayers should expect kicker in 2024, forecast says
The Oregon Capitol building in Salem. Photo: Chas Hundley The Oregon Department of Administrative Services (DAS) issued this week a quarterly economic forecast predicting higher wages increasing projected tax revenue will allow the state to recover more quickly from the recession, triggered by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic than it did[Read More…]
Highland Fields to host holiday market November 14
Highland Fields, photo courtesy Meagan Reed A new business in the Gales Creek area will host a holiday market Sunday, November 14 to introduce their farm and event space to the community. Highland Fields, located on Gales Creek Road just west of Roderick Road, will host the Highland Fields Holiday[Read More…]
Chicken and Guns Smokehouse coming to former Coleman’s location in Gales Creek
Photo courtesy Dustin Knox Bonanza. Coleman’s. Soon, Chicken and Guns Smokehouse. The building on the Wilson River Highway just west of the junction of Highways 6 and 8 has long served Gales Creek residents and visitors looking for a spot to eat. But for the last 18 months, what was[Read More…]
Washington Co. Chair Harrington floats idea of requiring proof of vaccination for indoor dining
A sign for the now-shuttered Coleman’s 9N Shady Rest in Gales Creek, an early casualty of the pandemic’s toll on eating establishments. Photo: Chas Hundley Following a Tuesday afternoon work session where Washington County Chair Kathryn Harrington said she would push for a closure of indoor dining in Washington County,[Read More…]
Inside the Gales Creek Tavern
The Gales Creek Tavern on July 15, 2021. Photo: Chas Hundley The Gales Creek Tavern reopened on May 20, after extensive—and ongoing—work to renovate the building and update the menu under new owners Brian Johnson and Seema Prasad-Bertschy. “The tavern holds a very special place in our hearts,” said Prasad-Bertschy. “It’s[Read More…]
Oregon House passes bill to require diverse boards of directors for publicly-traded companies
The Oregon Capitol building in Salem. Photo: Chas Hundley Oregon House Democrats issued a news release announcing the passage of House Bill 3310A, which requires publicly-traded corporations to have a minimum number of directors who are women and members of underrepresented communities. HB 331A is part of a concerted effort[Read More…]