1925 in Gales Creek: Picnics abound and the Valley prepares for becoming a bulb producer.
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ODOT chief details layoffs in staff email
“Today, 483 current ODOT employees will be notified that they will be laid off as of July 31,” Strickler wrote in the email at 8:37 am. Monday.
Gales Creek Journal Independence Day Newsletter | 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.
Chief Geering urges rural fire district to take ownership of board duties
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.
Road work season is here
Travelers should be prepared for a number of construction projects coming to rural western Washington County roads in July and August.
ODOT director calls legislature’s transportation bill failure ‘shocking,’ ‘scary’ warns of layoffs
In an email to ODOT staff Saturday, Director Kris Strickler said the agency will be forced to eliminate hundreds of position.
Feds Say Robert Pamplin Jr. Dragged His Feet in Making Pensioners Whole
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.
1925 in Gales Creek: To avoid European narcissus bulb embargo, Gales Creek farm hosts ‘extensive plantings’
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 absent from fire board oath to fight wildfire
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.
Fire danger to rise to ‘Moderate’ Thursday
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.
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