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  "description": "Short items from around the area — community happenings, quick updates, and notes that didn't make a full story.",
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    "https://washingtoncounty.civicweb.net/document/328747/Approve%20Request%20for%20Additional%20Funding%20for%20Plan.pdf?handle=FC0638A5D0BC4F618F3496E9A99A5C0D",
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  "textContent": "Short items from around the area on Tuesday, May 12, 2026 — community happenings, quick updates, and notes that didn't make a full story.\n\n* * *\n\nNews in the Grove · Around Town Tue · May 12 · 6 briefs\n\n1/6\n\n### Forest Grove firefighter finishes 253-mile Cocodona ultramarathon\n\nForest Grove Fire & Rescue C-Shift Firefighter/Paramedic Kaitie Sloan finished the Cocodona 250 ultramarathon on Saturday, completing the 253-mile race near Flagstaff, Arizona, with roughly 38,000 feet of elevation gain.\n\nAbout a third of this year's roughly 400 participants didn't finish, the department said in a Facebook post celebrating her achievement. Sloan said she can't wait for her next ultramarathon, though it'll likely be something a little more tame.\n\n2/6\n\n### Hagg Lake campground planning continues\n\nEfforts by Washington County to turn Scoggins Valley Park, the home of Hagg Lake, into an overnight campground continue.\n\nThe Washington County Board of Commissioners will likely approve a consent agenda item on May 19 to increase a $1.2 million planning and design project awarded earlier to GreenWorks PC to almost $1.7 million to plan a visitors center, campground, and park office. Find out more here: https://washingtoncounty.civicweb.net/document/328747/Approve%20Request%20for%20Additional%20Funding%20for%20Plan.pdf?handle=FC0638A5D0BC4F618F3496E9A99A5C0D\n\n3/6\n\n### FGHS Mariachi Tradición opens for La Santa Cecilia Saturday\n\nForest Grove High School's Mariachi Tradición will open for Latin Grammy Award winning group La Santa Cecilia on Saturday, May 16 at The Den Portland for a 21+ show. More info here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1980976602630689\n\n4/6\n\n### Washington County ballot returns hit 11.6% a week before primary\n\nThe Washington County Elections Division said 11.6% of registered voters had turned in a ballot as of Tuesday, one week before the May 19 primary. See more turnout results online: https://www.washingtoncountyor.gov/elections/voter-turnout\n\n5/6\n\n### Daybreak Rotary plans Highway 47 welcome sign cleanup Saturday\n\nThe Forest Grove Daybreak Rotary Club will clean up the garden around the \"Welcome to Forest Grove\" entry sign along Highway 47 starting 9 a.m. Saturday, May 16. Club members plan to prune, rake, weed, remove invasive bamboo and blackberry, and spread bark chips. The City of Forest Grove will provide a dump truck, rakes and wheelbarrows, and volunteers should bring additional garden tools. Volunteers can park on Beal Road and access the site from Main Street.\n\nThe cleanup is part of the international Rotary Epic Day of Service (https://www.epicdayofservice.org/), a grassroots effort founded three years ago by Rotarians in Colorado and the northwestern United States. At least 14 clubs in Rotary District 5100, which covers northern Oregon and southwest Washington, are running service projects in and around Saturday's event, in communities including Battle Ground, Dallas, Canby, Forest Grove, Keizer, Salem and Vancouver.\n\n6/6\n\n### Pacific Staff Senate elects six to two-year terms\n\nPacific University announced the following people will serve two-year terms after being elected in recent Staff Senate elections: Jennifer Bridgewater, senior manager of data, accreditation and licensure; Alycia Duran, associate director of advancement communications; Mathew Flaherty, helpdesk specialist; Andrew Longhofer, director of student experience and professional development; Jeremy Palmer, assistant director of simulation and standardized patients; and Keagan Weis, clinical education specialist.\n\nStaff Senate meetings are held on the third Wednesday of the month and are open to all staff members at Pacific.\n\nLink copied\n\nTap a dot to jump · Tap the bookmark to save · Swipe down for previous",
  "title": "Around Town — Tue, May 12",
  "updatedAt": "2026-05-13T00:33:17.047Z"
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