Portland General Electric is hosting a public event in Banks Wednesday, June 5 to showcase their 2024 Wildfire Mitigation Plan, gather feedback from PGE customers, and spread the word about wildfire preparedness and public safety power shutoffs.
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Second Free Fishing weekend of 2024 is June 1 and 2
The second free fishing weekend of the year is June 1 and 2, the weekend after Memorial Day weekend. Don’t know how to fish? Head to Hagg Lake for instruction and loaner gear.
Fire crews extinguish barn fire on Shearer Hill Road
Firefighters from Forest Grove Fire & Rescue battled a barn fire Monday afternoon, successfully keeping the flames confined to the rood of the wood barn in the Hillside community.
Oregon taps North Carolina deputy director to lead Medicaid system
On July 24, Emma Sandoe will become the director of Oregon’s Medicaid program, which provides care to more than one in four Oregonians.
Birds found on the Oregon Coast coated in ‘tar-like substance’
A group of state and federal agencies are responding to reports of an unknown tar-like substance washing up along Oregon’s North Coast, extending southward to areas as far as the Salishan Spit, and also along Washington’s southern coast.
Oregon Department of Forestry sends crews to Alaska
The Oregon Department of Forestry deployed seven crew members to Alaska Friday to help fight wildfires.
What’s going on in Gales Creek this weekend, May 24
“Elvis” is back, and he’s going to be at the Carpenter Creek Farm and Winery.
Photos: Garden Club, volunteers clean up church grounds
See photos of the recent cleanup event hosted by the Gales Creek Garden Club held at the Gales Creek Church.
Curbing severe wildfire in Oregon depends on urgency, scale of controlled burns by state and feds
State and federal agencies are coming around to indigenous knowledge, science, around the need for low-intensity fires to pre-empt severe ones
Gales Creek Community Club meets Thursday, May 23
The next meeting of the Gales Creek Community Club will be held Thursday, May 23 at 6:30 p.m. inside the Gales Creek Library. The group will also jointly meet with the Gales Creek Neighborhood Watch. Most of the leadership of the community club and the neighborhood watch is involved in both groups.
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