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SPRINGFIELD – Braxton Barnes and Hunter Dryden are both sophomore right-handed pitchers for the Springfield Drifters, but their roles with the team are vastly different. The Drifters begin their second season Friday night in the West Coast League, a collegiate wood-bat league. Springfield plays host to Port Angeles in the[Read More…]
EUGENE – While the big-classification schools competed at the OSAA State Track and Field Championships on Friday and Saturday, the three smaller classifications competed on Thursday and Friday. The Pleasant Hill Billies had two individuals earn second-place medals – junior Dakota Hyland in the girls 400m with a personal record[Read More…]
I want to thank the doctors and nurses in the ER at the Cottage Grove Hospital for their prompt and kind care of me last week when I injured my foot. It was such a weird situation when it happened and the mental visuals of how I must have looked[Read More…]
As I prepare this week’s Angler’s Log, the McKenzie River at the Vida gage site has fallen to about 2 feet, an ideal range for fishing and boating, and will continue to recede as we inch closer toward summer. You can also easily correlate the current conditions on the McKenzie[Read More…]
In 2019, my wife and I took retirement money to purchase 39 acres of F2 woodland in Vida. Kate was relishing a return to the PNW; I was both eagerly and anxiously anticipating our departure from my native California. To say we were unprepared to care for a woodland property[Read More…]
Pleasant Hill Softball: Pleasant Hill’s season came to a close last week in the quarterfinals of the Class 3A state playoffs. Last Wednesday, the Billies took down No. 11 Glide 6-4 in the first round. Pleasant Hill trailed 4-1 entering the bottom of the 5th inning, but scored 5 runs[Read More…]
Steyr Brinkley won’t have to move this summer. The Lane Community College sophomore will join the pitching staff for the Springfield Drifters in the West Coast League this summer. Springfield opens its second season at Hamlin Field on June 2nd against Port Angeles and tickets are on sale now. “I think that[Read More…]
Creslane Elementary School, Creswell Middle School, and Creswell Christian Academy Students of the Month were not provided by press time. They will be printed in an upcoming edition.
It is with great sadness that the family of Robert “Ed” Dersham announce his passing on May 6, 2023. Ed passed away at home with his family at his side. Ed was an outdoorsman through and through. He grew up in Creswell, Ore., loved playing basketball, fishing, and hunting. He[Read More…]
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