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News in the Grove The Gales Creek Journal is an online and print publication that serves the communities of Gales Cree

The Gales Creek Journal is an online publication produced by the Gales Crek Journal LLC that serves the communities of Gales Creek, Glenwood, and Timber with the latest local news, weather, entertainment, and upcoming events.

09/06/2025

We're attempting to merge our two pages. You may see some weird things in the interim!

Residents at a home near the Hillside community have their dog to thank for their escape from a fire, Forest Grove Fire ...
09/03/2025

Residents at a home near the Hillside community have their dog to thank for their escape from a fire, Forest Grove Fire & Rescue said

Residents at a home near the Hillside community has their dog to thank for their escape from a fire, Forest Grove Fire & Rescue said

Chas Hundley, owner and editor of the Gales Creek Journal here.You’ll soon be getting more news coverage, faster, and mo...
08/31/2025

Chas Hundley, owner and editor of the Gales Creek Journal here.

You’ll soon be getting more news coverage, faster, and more consistently — because we’re merging the Gales Creek Journal with News in the Grove.

I am the sole staff member at the Gales Creek Journal and News in the Grove. I need to change that, but to be frank, Gales Creek is too small a territory to grow to a sustainable business model, as is Banks, where our sister publication the Banks Post operates.

I believe that by adding Forest Grove to our coverage area, which includes the same school district, the same fire district, and is a center of commerce and shopping for Gales Creek residents, I can have the room to grow this little operation to a robust, modern, hyperlocal newspaper.

If you already subscribe digitally to News in the Grove, we’ll automatically cancel your Gales Creek Journal subscription once the transition is complete, so you won’t be double-charged.

Moving forward, the Gales Creek Journal will operate as News in the Grove, which means our subscribers will receive news from Gales Creek, Glenwood, Hillside, the city of Forest Grove and the communities of Dilley, Verboort, Hagg Lake, and other areas in the Forest Grove School District. Make sure to follow our page for News In The Grove.

You'll start to see changes tomorrow, and I'm hoping to have the transition complete later next week. Subscribers, both free and paid, will be automatically added to News in the Grove's email list.

We are NOT merging with our other publication the Banks Post, which will remain independent, and for our PRINT subscribers, there is no change. Print subscribers will continue to receive an 8-page print newspaper with the Banks Post and Gales Creek Journal combined for the time being (I’ll share updates soon about improvements to the print edition). We're not adding Forest Grove news to print today, other than the occasional Forest Grove news that involves Banks or Gales Creek in some other regard, such as school district news or fires that involve local firefighters.

Thank you for your support as we make this transition. Open the comments for even more about our history and what's next for News in the Grove and the Gales Creek Journal!

Your editor, Chas Hundley

A governor's planned visit to the rural Kansas City neighborhood was the talk of the town in 1925.
08/30/2025

A governor's planned visit to the rural Kansas City neighborhood was the talk of the town in 1925.

A governor's planned visit to the rural Kansas City neighborhood was the talk of the town in 1925.

A crash in Glenwood snarled Labor Day weekend traffic for up to three miles and resulted in minor injuries to at least f...
08/30/2025

A crash in Glenwood snarled Labor Day weekend traffic for up to three miles and resulted in minor injuries to at least four people, Forest Grove Fire & Rescue said Saturday.

A crash in Glenwood snarled Labor Day weekend traffic for up to three miles and resulted in minor injuries to at least four people, Forest Grove Fire & Rescue said Saturday.

Gales Creek Road will close near Thornburg Road starting Aug. 27 as county contractors begin work replacing one of two c...
08/26/2025

Gales Creek Road will close near Thornburg Road starting Aug. 27 as county contractors begin work replacing one of two culverts carrying White Creek, a Gales Creek tributary.

Gales Creek Road will close near Thornburg Road starting Aug. 27 as county contractors begin work replacing one of two culverts carrying White Creek, a Gales Creek tributary.

08/24/2025
08/16/2025

Update: they've been found!

Original:be on the look out for a small bay mare horse and donkey in the area of David Hill Rd and Gales Creek Rd.

A wooden gate broke and they escaped Saturday morning. They were last seen at 9:30 a.m. Ruby is a small bay mare and Heber is a grey donkey.

The Washington County Sheriff's Office has been notified.

The Oregon Department of Forestry closed the North Fork Wolf Creek Shooting Lanes in the Tillamook State Forest this wee...
08/16/2025

The Oregon Department of Forestry closed the North Fork Wolf Creek Shooting Lanes in the Tillamook State Forest this week to tackle maintenance and fire prevention work at the site.

For two days this week, part of Gales Creek's downtown was transformed into Indiana, and the Gales Creek Community Churc...
08/15/2025

For two days this week, part of Gales Creek's downtown was transformed into Indiana, and the Gales Creek Community Church of God converted to Catholicism to serve as an Indiana church for a film adaptation of the novel 'Via Negativa.'

For two days this week, part of Gales Creek's downtown was transformed into Indiana, and the Gales Creek Community Church of God converted to Catholicism. That is, for a film being shot in the area.

Ninety-two years ago on Aug. 14, 1933 a logging crew at the end of a railroad spur in the upper reaches of the Gales Cre...
08/15/2025

Ninety-two years ago on Aug. 14, 1933 a logging crew at the end of a railroad spur in the upper reaches of the Gales Creek Watershed sparked a wildfire.
That spark became the Tillamook Burn.

Ninety-two years ago on Aug. 14, 1933 a logging crew at the end of a railroad spur in the upper reaches of the Gales Creek Watershed sparked a wildfire. That spark became the Tillamook Burn. It changed Oregon forever: altering the economy, giving rise to communities and decimating others, changing[R...

In 1925, a group of Gales Creek schoolchildren were the judges of a livestock competition. This and more in the news of ...
08/15/2025

In 1925, a group of Gales Creek schoolchildren were the judges of a livestock competition. This and more in the news of a century ago!

Oil in Buxton. Moonshiners in Gales Creek. Banks was freshly a legal town. Timber had a West Timber. Welcome to 1925 in far western Washington County. This week, the clips come from the Hillsboro Argus, published August 13, 1925. The microfilm reader at the Forest Grove Library was out of[Read More....

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