Hyper Local News I Springfield, Cottage Grove, Creswell, & Pleasant Hill
Hyper Local News I Springfield, Cottage Grove, Creswell, & Pleasant Hill
Brittney Morlan, Josh Wedmore, Josh Knoebel and Curran Munzer are the team behind Curran’s Custom Taxidermy in Springfield. The shop opened in 2008. Aliya Hall One of the biggest misconceptions that Curran Munzer hears about taxidermy is that the process…
Debra Ellen Levings Debra Ellen Levings, 66, of Roseburg, Oregon, passed away from cancer on July 23, 2019. Debbie was born in Cottage Grove on Dec. 10, 1952, to Barbara Lynn (Godard) and Paul Loran Levings. Living amongst her many…
Randall Neal Jernigan-Wynn A Goshen man with a rapsheet dating to 1984 was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison in July for drug charges. Randall Neal Jernigan-Wynn, 59, is the kind of guy that the local drug dealers were…
In 2019 and 2018, Creswell Clubhouse, an after-school/summer program for kids directed by Laura Rariden, received a portion of the City of Creswell’s budgeted community service funds, distributed through Creswell First! Photo Provided/Jenni Donley By GINI DAVIS Community Editor The…
Gini Davis With a little prompting from her cousin Jenna (right), little Emily kisses the ”head” of a beaver pelt during Creswell Library’s Bountiful Beavers Summer Reading Program event on July 31 at Creswell Community Center. Annie Carter, of the…
Photo Provided/Greg Lee Friends of the Cottage Grove Carousel volunteers have been involved in the total restoration of the 1929 Hershall 36-foot, 34-animal menagerie carousel since 2017. Since then, 7,000 volunteer hours have been dedicated to the carousel, with many…
I love shopping for food, and enjoy taking my time to find my favorites, and even though I always shop with a list, I find new “favorites” on most shopping adventures. Whenever I shop, I see folks peeking in my…
The Bader family in front of Gravensteen Castle in Ghent, Belgium. From left: Ace, mom Hannah, Zane, dad Todd and Sage. Photo Provided Record-breaking heat eclipsed the main event as two of Creswell’s three Bader brothers, Zane, 15, and Sage,…
Aliya Hall In Trufflebert Farm’s 10th season, Ken Corricello had read that award-winning chef Charlie Trotter was opening a new restaurant in Chicago. Corricello decided to send him a large sampling of nuts with a note, and two weeks later,…
I hope you will forgive me for the short notice but there is something unique happening in Cottage Grove tonight (Thursday, Aug. 8) that you really should see. That is, if you enjoy plays on words mixed with poetry, politics,…