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Library, sheriff's office levies on track to pass

Renewal levies for the county's library system and the Washington County Sheriff's Office were on track to pass in the initial election results released at 8 p.m.

By Chas Hundley

/ 4 Nov 2025

Library, sheriff's office levies on track to pass

It's Election Day

Today is Election Day. To be counted, ballots must be turned in by 8 p.m.

By Chas Hundley

/ 4 Nov 2025

Column | Forest Grove Police Stats for October 2025

"In the month of October 2025, we serviced 1,194 calls total," writes the Forest Grove Police Department in this month's roundup of stats from September 2025. Read more inside.

By Chas Hundley

/ 3 Nov 2025

Column | Forest Grove Police Stats for October 2025

Forest Grove News: Verboort Sausage Fest, Halloween update fatal crash, vote | October 31, 2025

By Chas Hundley

/ 31 Oct 2025

Forest Grove News: Verboort Sausage Fest, Halloween update fatal crash, vote | October 31, 2025

Vote by November 4 at 8 p.m. to be counted

Forest Grove-area voters must cast their ballots, containing just two questions, by Tuesday, Nov 4 before the 8 p.m. deadline.

By Chas Hundley

/ 31 Oct 2025

Vote by November 4 at 8 p.m. to be counted

Column | 1925 in Forest Grove: Balm Grove features masquerade dance, booze arrest

What were people doing in 1925 at a popular dance hall in Gales Creek around Halloween? Dancing at a masquerade and getting arrested for having booze.

By Chas Hundley

/ 31 Oct 2025

Column | 1925 in Forest Grove: Balm Grove features masquerade dance, booze arrest

Ten Halloween events in Forest Grove and Gales Creek for kids and adults

Two business-based trick-or treat events in downtown and east Forest Grove, a haunted theatre, multiple bar parties and more await those looking to celebrate the spooky season in Forest Grove.

By Chas Hundley

/ 29 Oct 2025

Ten Halloween events in Forest Grove and Gales Creek for kids and adults

'No Kings' in Forest Grove draws 800

About 800 people filled the grassy triangle under the flagpole east of Safeway and the surrounding sidewalks in Forest Grove on Oct. 18 to protest President Donald Trump's administration.

By Chas Hundley

/ 28 Oct 2025

Hundreds lose power in Forest Grove, Gales Creek

Banks, Gales Creek, and Forest Grove residents have all lost power at some point on Saturday.

By Chas Hundley

/ 25 Oct 2025

Hundreds lose power in Forest Grove, Gales Creek

1925 in Forest Grove: Toll Road plans from Forest Grove through Gales Creek to Tillamook scrapped

A Halloween verse from local poet Verne Bright, the latest in highway development efforts, and a Verboort Jubilee.

By Chas Hundley

/ 24 Oct 2025

1925 in Forest Grove: Toll Road plans from Forest Grove through Gales Creek to Tillamook scrapped

‘Understand history, create empathy’: OPB Native American boarding school documentary screening set for Forest Grove

Forest Grove residents will get a better understanding of the Native American boarding school experience at an advanced screening of a documentary at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 28, at Pacific University's Taylor Meade Auditorium in Forest Grove.

By Sydney Seymour

/ 22 Oct 2025

‘Understand history, create empathy’: OPB Native American boarding school documentary screening set for Forest Grove

Forest Grove motorcyclist killed in Hillsboro crash

The Hillsboro Police Department identified a motorcycle driver killed in a crash in Hillsboro on Monday as Forest Grove resident Carlos Andres Marquez-Vargas, age 20.

By Chas Hundley

/ 21 Oct 2025

Forest Grove motorcyclist killed in Hillsboro crash