Forest Grove News

Washington County health officials say only a quarter of the vaccine ordered has arrived; state officials shift focus to at-risk patients The Forest Grove News-Times, Nov 18, 2009 They were popular while they lasted, but Washington County announced last week that school-based vaccine clinics were being postponed until the county received more swine ...

Whispers of hope within the moans of harsh winds - that's what Jane Kirkpatrick's characters, and readers, hear inside her novels.

State Rep. Chuck Riley was named the Oregon Public Health Association's legislator of the year for his efforts to ban smoking in cars when children are present.

Firefighters in Cornelius and Forest Grove are kicking off their annual effort to get toys and food into the hands of needy families in time for the winter holidays.

A pole barn at a Cornelius nursery sustained an estimated $20,000 in damage by a fire early this morning.

Officials say a nine-year-old Forest Grove boy who was visiting family friends became lost in the Manning area Wednesday night.

In the early hours before the sun rises, especially on a rainy day in the Oregon mountains, the lucky insomniac can find a place of unspeakable, timeless bliss in his alone hours, with only a cat for company.

The size of Forest Grove's monumental American flag at the intersection of Maple Street and 19th Way created a bit of a flap when it was installed this spring.

Michael Owen, a naturopathic physician who operates a clinic in Forest Grove, will give a free seminar on Type 2 diabetes from 6 to 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov.

The theft of 100 dance tickets from a classroom at Forest Grove High School 12 days ago marred "one of the best homecomings ever," according to leadership advisor Howard Sullivan.

Firefighters from Forest Grove, Hillsboro, Banks and Cornelius spent about 30 minutes suppressing the flames from a house fire last Thursday where grease and diesel burned extraordinarily hot.

Forest Grove police officer Jason Moser had the unenviable task of telling folks arriving after 11 a.m. Saturday for a swine flu vaccination clinic at Tom McCall Upper Elementary School that all 700 doses were already gone.

A search warrant on a Forest Grove home turned up more than a half-pound of methamphetamine and sent the two occupants to jail and a child to protective services.

The Tuality District of Boy Scouts of America will give Richard Kidd its first Good Scout award next month in recognition of his time as mayor of Forest Grove.

The Forest Grove Public Arts Commission will feature Banks resident and painter Robert Schlegel at its fifth "Meet the Artist" dinner next month.

A 2-year-old girl was taken into protective custody after detectives found methamphetamine in the freezer of a Forest Grove apartment.

Crews responding to a garage fire report about 7:20 p.m. today in Forest Grove found the whole home ablaze.

While creating dog parks in some cities has proved controversial, the Forest Grove City Council this week approved an off-leash area for dogs without any howls of protest.

Residents in the 1200 block of Spring Garden Way got quite a surprise Wednesday if they happened to look out their window at 6:52 p.m. That's when a single-engine bi-plane was driving - not flying - down their street.

Richard Kidd, who accidentally wound up in Forest Grove, went on to become city's longest-serving mayor Growing up as an Army brat, the oldest of five boys and a girl, he followed his father's military career across the United States before graduating from high school in Tokyo in 1954.