Hyper Local News I Springfield, Cottage Grove, Creswell, & Pleasant Hill
Hyper Local News I Springfield, Cottage Grove, Creswell, & Pleasant Hill
SPRINGFIELD – A tragedy unfolded when a mother murdered her 9-year-old daughter before turning the gun on herself at their home on Easter Sunday. Springfield Police were called to a residence in the 1000 block of South 70th Street at 6:43 p.m. regarding two suspicious…
COTTAGE GROVE – When two self-proclaimed “witchy hippies” set off on a business venture to bring metaphysical stores to the small towns they lived in, it was only a matter of time before Star Frog made its debut in the Grove. Star Frog, now located…
The Chronicle has partnered with our five area high schools: Cottage Grove, Creswell, Pleasant Hill, Springfield, and Thurston, to create the first hyper-local volleyball jamboree. While details are still being worked out, the jamboree is scheduled for Thursday, Aug. 29 at Springfield High School. The…
The statistics about food waste are genuinely staggering. Here are a few that always stick out to me. Between 30 to 40 % of food grown in the U.S. goes uneaten, and wasted food makes up nearly 20 % of Lane County’s garbage stream. •…
I concluded my most recent column for The Chronicle with what I had hoped would be a specious rumor. Unfortunately, that is not the case. The Corps of Engineers that provides funding for hatchery trout and summer steelhead in the upper Willamette River Basin, under…
Police vehicle struck while blocking road SPRINGFIELD – Rapid pulsing lights atop a Springfield Police vehicle were not enough to deter a Springfield man from slamming into the parked vehicle on March 30. The accident took place at 8:27 p.m. at the intersections of Mohawk…
THE MAIN EVENT: SOFTBALL #4 COTTAGE GROVE (6-2) AT #13 MARSHFIELD (6-5)■ Leading off: The Lions begin Sky-Em League play at Marshfield in a doubleheader this Friday. Marshfield is the defending league champions, and Cottage Grove hasn’t won a league title in at least a decade.…
SPRINGFIELD POLICE DEPARTMENT MONDAY, MARCH 25 (97 total calls) Top calls: Traffic stop (31), Driving while suspended (6), Criminal trespass (4) 12:38 am: Disorderly subject, 4th St./C St. 1:42 am: Disorderly subject, 5122 B St. 1:44 am: Hit & run, 100-block S. 47th St. 2:05…