News In The Grove

A $9 fight ends in jail time, skateboarders get the police called on them for existing, and jubilant schoolchildren celebrate loud enough for a police call and more in this week's police log!

Forest Grove Police Log: May 29 - June 4, 2026

The Gales Creek Strawberry Festival returns June 13 with strawberry shortcake, about 50 vendors and a new Sargent Road closure aimed at a safer event.

Gales Creek Strawberry Festival returns June 13

In 1976, the Theatre in the Grove bought the Grove Theater and opened ‘Fiddler on the Roof,’ a Gales Creek pastor protested Forest Grove schools halting Gideon Bible giveaways, and Gales Creek’s berries ripened as the school year wound down.

Column | 1976 in Forest Grove: Theatre in the Grove buys the Grove Theater and opens ‘Fiddler on the Roof’

Today, we met Zorro at the Forest Grove Farmers Market! Open now until 8 p.m. in downtown Forest Grove.