Hyper Local News I Springfield, Cottage Grove, Creswell, & Pleasant Hill
Hyper Local News I Springfield, Cottage Grove, Creswell, & Pleasant Hill
An early-1900s vintage picture postcard shows five different methods of mining gold: quartz stamping, hydraulic, dredging (with an old-school bucket-line dredge), use of a doodlebug, and panning. Postcard Provided In the years that followed the American Civil War, the American…
Creswell Library Director Su Liudahl and Youth Librarian Nick Caum. Gini Davis Recent scholarships and honors have Creswell Library Director Su Liudahl and Youth Librarian Nick Caum eager to develop fresh ideas to better serve their community. Liudahl received a…
Sam and Pam Lunas (and James Dean) at the Creswell High School Class of 1959 reunion. Kay Higdon Approximately one-third of the Creswell High School Class of 1959 were able to come together for their 60th reunion in late July.…
Validation. That was my key takeaway from the Willamette Writers Conference in Portland the first weekend of this month. I’ve only recently gotten back into creative writing, after stepping away for several years to pursue my career in journalism, and…
It is past time that a solution should be found for the needless killings in schools and public places. The fact that there are so many weapons available for mass destruction – and the ability to easily acquire them by…
I’m long overdue to mention some of the regulars I see at Farmlands Market: Chrissy, Sam and Chiara (the sandwich maker!). And I have to mention Ian, who loaned me a pen at the start of my delivery route two…
A little girl looks back for a little encouragement as she nears the top of the ”climbing wall” leading to the top of a giant inflatable slide set up in Holt Park for National Night Out. Gini Davis By Gini…
By Aliya Hall Staff reporter Live Healthy Lane wants to make sure their data is telling the right story. Healthy Lane (LHL) has been collecting feedback from communities to see if the data from their focus groups and surveys is…
By Erin Tierney Executive Editor Sanipac got an OK for a 2.9% rate increase during Monday night’s Creswell City Council meeting, but not without sitting through a contentious council quarrel. Council President Amy Knudsen did not mince words. She was…
So many good boys: Jayson Southmayd, of the new, Creswell-based nonprofit SouthPaws LLC, works with his personal ”pack of four”: (from left) service dogs Kimber and Arrabelle, service-dog-in-training Milo and service dog Canine. Gini Davis After growing up largely in…