Golf tourney to support disabled children
September 28, 2023
As the school year begins and students start rolling in, opportunities for education aren’t just limited to the classroom. This fall the Springfield, Cottage Grove, and Creswell libraries are teaming up with Singing Creek Educational Center to broaden Native cultural education and understanding with the Acorn Circle Library Program. Singing[Read More…]
SPRINGFIELD – No child should feel excluded – especially when it comes to a physical or mental disability. That’s why Springfield’s Tom Chesnut partnered with The Arc Lane County to host a charity golf event centered around raising money and support for children with disabilities. The event, which will take[Read More…]
Constructing a Brighter Future has built seven shelters for formerly unhoused people in the last year, and this is just the beginning. It’s not a secret that the homeless crisis is a convoluted issue that has required, and will continue to require, constant political discussion and problem-solving. But this issue[Read More…]
COTTAGE GROVE – Cottage Grove High School was on dreadful streak, having lost 29 of its last 30 football games – including the last 17 in a row. New Lions head coach Steve Turner sensed that his team was getting better, that a breakthrough might be on the horizon. [Read More…]
In 1997, Cottage Grove mayor Darrel Williams was charged, along with the city council, to hire a new city manager. Out of 120 applicants, in a national search, Richard Meyers was unanimously hired and has served the community in that capacity for 26 years. Williams said that Meyers always[Read More…]
SPRINGFIELD – It hasn’t been an easy start to the season for the Thurston Colts girls soccer team. A tough non-league schedule was made more difficult as the Colts were trying to figure out how to replace six seniors from last year’s quarterfinal team — including four all-state athletes. Despite[Read More…]
SPRINGFIELD — What do you get when you combine three actors, 37 plays and one Elizabethan playwright? You get “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)” now playing at Pegasus Playhouse in Springfield. The 97-minute parody of Shakespeare’s comedies, tragedies and histories is directed by Scott Frazier-Maskiell and was written[Read More…]
FOOTBALL PREVIEWS Cottage Grove Lions (1-3) at Cascade Cougars (3-1)Game facts: Friday, Sept. 29 at 7 p.m., 10226 Marion Rd. SE, Turner.What2Know: The Lions got their first win in two years last week under new head coach Steve Turner. Now, Cottage Grove travels to No. 13 Cascade for the first[Read More…]