Have students in the Forest Grove School District? Here's how the ...
Dec 26, 2024 · School's out for the holidays - but today's wild weather is a good time for parents of students who attend school at facilities in the Forest Grove School District to brush up on snow routes and inclement weather procedures.
State regulators approve more electricity rate hikes for Oregonians …
Most Oregonians in 2025 will see residential electricity rates nearly 50% higher than they were just five years ago. The state’s Public Utilities Commission — a three-person governor-appointed group charged with regulating the rates of privately owned utilities in Oregon — approved Thursday a nearly 10% increase in residential electricity rates for customers of …
Washington County has a new judge for a new seat
Oregon Governor Tina Kotek announced the appointment of Elizabeth R. Lemoine to a new seat on the Washington County Circuit Court Friday.
CPO 13 meeting notice Jan. 15, 2025 - Gales Creek Journal
Jan 15, 2025 · The Gales Creek, Roy and Verboort CPO will meet in Banks Wednesday to hear from Forest Grove Fire & Rescue on how mutual aid agreements work.
Washington County’s newest judge has Gales Creek ties
Jan 8, 2024 · Washington County has a new circuit court judge as of last week. Hafez Daraee has been a mayor, an Oregon State Bar member for 31 years, and served on the board of the foundation that operates Gales Creek Camp.
Dispatches from history: youth killed in Gales Creek logging …
A century ago, a young man was killed when a log rolled over him. This and more in a very short dispatches from history.
Highway 6 reduced to one lane at milepost 35 - Gales Creek Journal
Nov 20, 2024 · Highway 6 is reduced to one lane at milepost 35 according to the Washington County Sheriff’s Office for what the Oregon Department of Transportation described as a sunken grade.
Highway 6 fully reopened after sunken grade repaired
Both lanes of Highway 6 at milepost 35 are fully open, a spokesperson for the Oregon Department of Transportation said in an email to this newspaper at 3:45 p.m. The agency had scrambled a repair team to the site after the pavement dropped more than half a foot early Wednesday, leaving motorists with blown tires according to eyewitness reports …
High winds take out power, downed trees close Highway 6
Dec 26, 2024 · Overnight winds brough trees down on area roads, littering Highways 26 and 6 with debris and taking out power for Portland General Electric and West Oregon Electric Co-op customers throughout the region. Highway 6 remained …
Timber Road landslide repair scheduled to begin in summer of …
Washington County Land Use and Transportation has selected a repair method for the Timber Road landslide and expects to begin work in the summer of 2024, with a planned completion date at the end of 2024.