Hyper Local News I Springfield, Cottage Grove, Creswell, & Pleasant Hill
Hyper Local News I Springfield, Cottage Grove, Creswell, & Pleasant Hill
Maddox Molony, a freshman for the Oregon Ducks baseball team, smacked a home run over the left-field fence at PK Park on May 5 for his seventh home run of the season – an Oregon freshman record. Molony, a 2023 Thurston grad and member of…
PLEASANT HILL – After losing in the quarterfinals the past two years, the Pleasant Hill Billies were facing a familiar foe Friday – fifth-ranked Sisters – and ended up winning 4-1 and advancing to the state semifinals for the first time since 2019. “That was…
WASHINGTON, DC – Tuesday, U.S. Representative Val Hoyle announced her selected community projects that were submitted to the U.S. House Appropriations Committee as candidates to receive funding for Fiscal Year 2025, including projects for local policing and rural radio upgrades. Each House Member was allowed…
Memorial Day has always marked the beginning of the summer season. But it’s important not to overlook the significance of the Memorial Day observance and what it means to Americans. The day was set aside in the late 1800s, originally called “Declaration Day” to honor…
The Emerald Challengers have been knocking on the door every season during coach Kenny Niles’ tenure. Will this be the year they finally bust it down? Now entering his sixth season, Niles has compiled a 220-59 record with the Class AAA American Legion team. Last…
THE MAIN EVENT: BASEBALL CLASS 3A: #4 PLEASANT HILL (21-6) VS. #9 BROOKINGS-HARBOR (19-7), 4 P.M.CLASS 5A: #2 THURSTON (26-3) VS. #3 RIDGEVIEW (24-5), 5 P.M.■ What2Know: The final week of the high school sports season is upon us, with Thurston and Pleasant Hill baseball the only…
Lane to receive drought resiliency investments Lane and Douglas counties will receive $1.22 million and $4 million, respectively, in drought resiliency funding as part of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and Inflation Reduction Act, U.S. senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley recently announced. “In Oregon and throughout…
Dear Editor: Sunday morning in Eugene/Springfield. I ease myself down in my La-Z-Boy with a cup of coffee and the (almost) daily paper (such as it is!). If I’m lucky a cat jumps up in my lap. I glance out my picture window to see…
POLICE ROUNDUP Cottage Grove Police don new patches COTTAGE GROVE — Cottage Grove Police officers are now sporting a new patch logo — a design first imagined by two offices and crafted by a high school teacher and his students. Officers Blalack and Gordon submitted…