In praise of school bus drivers
I’m in a small room with a small table. The air is a little thick and I notice that every sign on the wall has to do with safety and treating children with respect. There are six chairs and 11…
Hyper Local News I Springfield, Cottage Grove, Creswell, & Pleasant Hill
Hyper Local News I Springfield, Cottage Grove, Creswell, & Pleasant Hill
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Good fortune and great appreciation
Owners Noel and Denise Nash on the day they purchased The Chronicle. Milestones are worth marking. At least some of them are, I guess. The threshold varies, right? Your age, marriage, perhaps your car are all noted, or ignored, as…
Death Notice
LAWRENCE — Dennis Roger Lawrence, 64, of Cottage Grove, Ore., died Feb. 25, 2020. Arrangements made by Smith Lund Mills Funeral Chapel in Cottage Grove.
Leora Louise Melton – July 6,1940 – Feb 18, 2020
Leora Louise Melton – July 6,1940 – Feb 18, 2020 Leora Louise Melton, 79, passed away peacefully in Prosser, Wash. on Feb 18, 2020. Leora was born July 6,1940, in Bingham, Utah and lived in Creswell, Ore., most of her…
Jerald L. Moore – July 15, 1970 – Feb. 27, 2020
Jerald L. Moore – July 15, 1970 – Feb. 27, 2020 Jerald L. Moore, 49, of Challis, Idaho, passed away on Feb. 27, 2020 in Springfield, Ore. from a rare form of pancreatic cancer. Jerald was born to JL and…
Keith Joseph Fuller – Oct. 2, 1975 – Feb. 28, 2020
Keith Joseph Fuller – Oct. 2, 1975 – Feb. 28, 2020 Keith Joseph Fuller, 44, of Cottage Grove, Ore. passed away Feb. 28, 2020 from a rare form of anaplastic thyroid cancer. He was born to Tony E. and LaVonne…
Francis Gilbert Hopkinson – Dec. 10, 1936 – Feb. 19, 2020
Francis Gilbert Hopkinson – Dec. 10, 1936 – Feb. 19, 2020 Francis Gilbert Hopkinson, 83, of Cottage Grove passed away on Feb. 19, 2020. He was born in Newburyport, Mass., to Charles and Evaline Hopkinson on Dec. 10, 1936. LCDR…
Betty Jeanne Deere -Aug. 22, 1925 – Feb. 24, 2020
Betty Jeanne Deere -Aug. 22, 1925 – Feb. 24, 202 Betty Jeanne Deere, 94, died on Feb. 24, 2020. She was born in Cottage Grove on Aug. 22, 1925, to parents Harry and Agnes (Flaherty) Stoneburg, and graduated from Cottage…
25 graduate from emergency response program
South Lane County Fire & Rescue graduated 26 CERT students this month and were recognized at the Feb. 10 Creswell City Council meeting. Erin Tierney/The Chronicle CRESWELL – Twenty-five people this month graduated from the Community Emergency Response Team (CERT)…
Lady Lions ‘strike’ gold with first state bowling title
Pictured with their state championship trophy won Feb. 22-23 are the members of the Cottage Grove Lady Lions – a cooperative sponsorship girls’ bowling team including girls from Cottage Grove, Creswell and Thurston. From left, top: head coach Ernie Owen…