The Chronicle, a weekly newspaper founded in 1909 in Creswell that now serves all of southern Lane County, earned 18 awards in the 2020 “Better Newspaper Contest” as part of the Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association contest.
Nine of the awards were first-place honors, including “Best Government” and “Best Enterprise” reporting for coverage of South Lane Fire District Chief John Wooten, who posted offensive material to his public social media pages, was…
