The next meeting—and first since the group formally adopted a name—of the Gales Creek Community Club will be held Thursday, April 25 at 6:30 p.m. inside the Gales Creek Library. The Strawberry Festival, National Night Out and more are on the agenda.
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Hagg Lake to host second county-run fishing tournament May 4
The Hagg Lake Fishing Tournament will return to Scoggins Valley Park outside of Gaston for a second year May 4, featuring prizes for youth and adults and more.
Tillamook Forest Center hosts forestry history event April 27
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.
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.
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.
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.
Oregon governor signs sweeping drug addiction proposal into law
Gov. Tina Kotek on Monday signed into law the sweeping measure the Oregon Legislature passed to combat the state’s fentanyl drug addiction and overdose crisis.