Watts Community Club has chicken dinner, and other comings and goings from April 10, 1924 in Banks and Gales Creek.
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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.
Dispatches from history: Western Washington County April 3, 1924
Attempts to build a highway to the coast continue, a Dilley man chops a fingertip off at the sawmill and more from 1924.
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.
What’s going on in Gales Creek this weekend, March 29
Live music at the Gales Creek Tavern, Smokehouse Chicken and Guns, and more!
It’s time to remove your studded tires
ODOT says it’s time to lose the studded tires – or face a $165 fine after March 31.
Dispatches from history: Western Washington County March 27, 1924
A private fish hatchery near Mountaindale provides 5,000 trout to a Gales Creek man, and an accused moonshiner takes his own life in this week’s dispatches from history.