Hyper Local News I Springfield, Cottage Grove, Creswell, & Pleasant Hill
Hyper Local News I Springfield, Cottage Grove, Creswell, & Pleasant Hill
Editor’s note: This is the final installment of The Chronicle’s four-part series featuring historical excerpts from the collections of local museums and historians as they prepare to launch “Historic Atlas of Springfield, Oregon,” a 200-page collection detailing the city’s historical development this summer. Thurston was…
Editor’s note: This is Part 1 of a 4 part series highlighting the history of Cottage Grove. Read the intro here. For over 30 years, I have collected photos of the area. You have probably seen some of them in the local newspapers or the…
COTTAGE GROVE – Grovers will receive a nice boost in local history this month. In February, the City of Cottage Grove received a Heritage Programs grant to partner with local media and historical organizations to showcase storytelling, photographs, and old-time tidbits that many are likely…
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Portland District (USACE), invites community members to participate in shaping the future of land management at Cottage Grove and Dorena reservoirs. Three in-person public meetings are being held in Springfield, Creswell, and Cottage Grove. Meeting participants can learn about…
Barbara Ellen Reeves, age 91, passed away on Sunday, February 16, 2025 from congestive heart failure. She was born in Mariemont, Ohio on August 10, 1933, to parents John and Beatrice (Caudell) Nelson. Barbara graduated from Eugene High School in 1951. She married John Reeves…
PORTLAND – On Saturday at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Portland, the Thurston girls wrestling team cheered, wept and celebrated on the mat as they held up their second Oregon state-shaped blue trophy after claiming another 6A/5A girls team title in two years. “Our girls,…
As the weather gets warmer, and even as it doesn’t, people are turning on two wheels rather than four. Bicycling is embedded in the pathways of the southern Willamette Valley, but is it a safe two-tired activity? Newly released data shows that Oregon’s “Bicycle Friendly…
PORTLAND – The Thurston boys wrestling team was the state runner-up for the third year in a row, a pattern that head coach Mike Simons has been trying to chip away at in the face of Crater’s challenge. However, brothers Micheal and Lukas Salas-Sanchez walked…
PORTLAND — After sweeping first at the Boys 3A-Special District 3 Championship last weekend, and finishing fourth in the state, earning a state champion since 2019, and the most wrestlers ever placed at state, it is official – the Pleasant Hill wrestling program has a…