Year 2024

Briefs: Week of Feb. 1

Thievery cranks up during post-storm clean up Wire theft from utility companies are on the rise, according to county police. Reports have increased for stolen tools and equipment — crimes that are impacting the county’s restoration efforts to get thousands of people’s electricity turned back…

50+ first names …

The last time I caught up on all of the people I meet and interact with was well before the ice storm. In fact, it might have been before Taylor and Travis started dating.  I’ve been joining a few members of the Twin Rivers Rotary…

Nash joins Chronicle as distribution manager

Benjamin Nash has been named The Chronicle’s distribution manager, overseeing all aspects of the company’s home delivery, subscription, and single-copy sales of the weekly newspaper. He’ll also lead multiple circulation and subscription initiatives to continue growing the paper’s readership. Nash, 32, has been an automotive…

HSSZ: Week of Feb. 1 Capsules

THE MAIN EVENT: GIRLS BASKETBALL CRATER AT SPRINGFIELD■ Game facts: No. 1 Crater Comets (15-1) at No. 7 Springfield Millers (12-6), Friday, Feb. 2 at 5:30 p.m.■ Tipping off: The Millers host No. 1 Crater with a share of the Midwestern League title potentially on…

LTE: Officer a godsend in ice storm

Dear Editor, On Monday morning of this recent storm with temperatures in our home in the 40s and no cell phone service to call for any help, my wife and I, both in our 70s, tried to figure a way out of this ice storm…

LTE: It is said history repeats itself …

Dear Editor,  The recent ice storm brought devastation to many sections of the South Willamette Valley.  Pictures of Coiner Park in Cottage Grove bring back nostalgia of a bandstand/gazebo built by the Lions Club in the late 1980s, and a two-and-a-half foot Douglas fir tree…

Marguerite “Marge” Williamson

Marguerite “Marge” Williamson passed away peacefully in her sleep Christmas day 2023 at the age of 97. Born and raised in Chicago, she met and married Bob Williamson during her first year of nurses training. They moved from Chicago, Ill. to Salem, Ore. in the…