Hyper Local News I Springfield, Cottage Grove, Creswell, & Pleasant Hill
Hyper Local News I Springfield, Cottage Grove, Creswell, & Pleasant Hill
School counselor in the Springfield area was arrested on April 3 and charged with 10 counts of Encouraging Child Sex Abuse. Craig B. Steinberg, 55, of Springfield, worked with multiple children through his past employment, and the Springfield Police department…
CRESWELL – Raina Napper, president of the Chamber of Commerce’s Executive Board, told members in a Thursday, April 2, email that its office was closed, effective immediately, and that administrator Don Amberg had been laid off. The Chamber’s board has…
SLAYTER – Roger Eugene Slayter, 79, of Springfield, died March 20, 2020. TERRY – Nina Rene Terry, 78, of Cottage Grove, died March 26, 2020. Arrangements by Smith-Lund-Mills Funeral Chapel in Cottage Grove. ALFORD – Rita Irene Alford, 88, of…
Richard Stephen Howard passed away March 27, 2020. He was born to Stephen L. Howard and Alice Mildred Rissue in Cottage Grove on Sept. 11, 1934. He attended school in Cottage Grove through the 11th grade, when he decided going…
Donald Robert Stacey passed away peacefully at home surrounded by family on April 2, 2020 at his home in Albany at the age of 78 following a four-year struggle with lung cancer. Don was born April 15, 1941 in Cottage…
Glendon Geil passed away peacefully surrounded by his family at his home on the beautiful McKenzie River on March 22, 2020. Glen was born May 14, 1933, in Albany to Paul and Beryl (Nordyke) Geil. He was raised in the…
Our father, Richard V. Vargas, age 89, went to be with the Lord on March 23, 2020. He was born on a sugarcane plantation on the Big Island of Hawaii on Jan. 15, 1931, the sixth of eight children born…
Lora Lee Jensen, also known as “Lori”, of Cottage Grove, OR passed away peacefully in late afternoon on March 21, 2020 with her family nearby, and with the warmth of spring sunshine and fresh garden air at her opened patio…
Sid Cooke, Jr., of Creswell passed away March 23, 2020, at the age of 72. Sid was born Dec. 29, 1947, to Sidney Hellings Cooke, Sr. and Georgia B. Lytle, one of four children. Sid leaves behind his son Sid…
Lori Leavitt, right, with daughter Jenessa Mallory at their Creswell home. Both are dealing with the loss of school activities during the pandemic. Photo by David Leavitt I should be watching my daughter play her last year of softball. We should…