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Gales Creek Community Club meets Thursday, April 25
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.
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.
Dispatches from history: Western Washington County April 17, 1924
A former Banks legislator dies by gun accident just months after his car was found in the river, a dance held in Timber and more in news from a century ago.
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.
COLUMN | The Relief of Defensible Space
Well maintained defensible space makes a huge difference in protecting your home or business during a wildfire.
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.
Dispatches from history: Western Washington County April 10, 1924
Watts Community Club has chicken dinner, and other comings and goings from April 10, 1924 in Banks and Gales Creek.
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.