Hyper Local News I Springfield, Cottage Grove, Creswell, & Pleasant Hill
Hyper Local News I Springfield, Cottage Grove, Creswell, & Pleasant Hill
Photo provided/Shawn Hittenberger The Creswell ”Oakland” Raiders – a flag football team of Creslane fourth graders that competes in a Eugene-Springfield area NFL Flag Football league – won its last two regular-season games May 19 to finish at the top…
The CHS equestrian Freestyle Fours drill team captured second place at the OHSET State Championships. From left: Jane Marquess, Levi Bones, Grace Haga and Ashley Anderson. Photo provided/Monica Marquess Equestrian athletes representing Creswell High School placed second in two events…
Citizen of the Year 2018 Cathy Morgan 2017 Jane Vincent 2016 Susan Blachnik 2015 Mayor Dave Stram 2014 Jay Payne 2013 LaVae Robertson 2012 Bob Hooker 2011 Patti Bond 2010 Jean McKittrick Rose Barker Lifetime Achievement 2018 Larry Shrenk 2017…
Canine calendar contest underway Live in Springfield? Pick up a pet’s waste? That’s all that qualifies residents to enter their dogs for the chance to be featured in the city’s 2020 “Canines for Clean Water” calendar. Many people may not…
Erin Tierney/The Creswell Chronicle Kat Romig, 16, of Springfield passes by the Uncle Sam hat painted on the Ken Kesey mural on Tuesday, May 21. The mural, located on the east stucco wall of Plank Town Brewing Company on Main…
The Memorial Day weekend features a full schedule of events at Cottage Grove Speedway, starting Friday, May 24, with a pre-race party followed by two full nights of racing Saturday and Sunday. The historic quarter-mile clay oval will host one…
Keegan Bounds and his father, Josh Bounds, next to Keegan’s four championship awards in box stock kart racing. Aliya Hall/The Creswell Chronicle When Keegan Bounds first started box stock kart racing at five years old, he was the slowest car…
Support gladly accepted from Farmlands Market and many businesses and citizens in Creswell. Photo provided APRIL UPDATES In April, Community Food for Creswell was awarded $20,000 from the Elizabeth S. Holden Fund of The Oregon Community Foundation, toward the Community-use…
This photo spread ran in the Society section of the Portland Morning Oregonian on Nov. 29, 1921, shortly after Oregon’s ”Diamond Bill” Barrett scandalized New York society by eloping with its most eligible debutante, Alice Drexel – whose profile is…
Shane Bauer, Sarah Shourd and Joshua Fattal Photo provided Our small town is surrounded by a larger, always changing world. Sometimes the events of that world impact our community personally as they did in 2009 when the national news shared…