DANA MERRYDAY/THE CHRONICLE
Shop owner Chris Compton advises a customer at Rainy Peak Bicycles in Cottage Grove.
Cottage Grove has a history of reinventing itself.
For a while, gold mining dominated the local economy. After the glimmer of gold faded, the Grove became a timber town with small mills up and down the valley and provided the bulk of the local economy before fading in the 1980s. There were hopes at one time of…
