Hyper Local News I Springfield, Cottage Grove, Creswell, & Pleasant Hill
Hyper Local News I Springfield, Cottage Grove, Creswell, & Pleasant Hill
Nation’s first Arbor Day celebration Nebraska City, NE, April 10, 1872, 150 years ago. Photo courtesy Arbor Day Foundation. This year is turning into a colossal tree year. First off, there are anniversary years for Arbor Day (150 years), and…
PHOTO PROVIDED – Frank Long, Marge Wrightson, “Barefoot in the Park” CT Production 1985 COTTAGE GROVE – The community lost a one-of-a-kind citizen when Frank Long exited the earthly stage on June 10, 2021. The Celebration of Life was held…
The room with a view. At the top of a knoll on Blue Mountain School Road that forces Mosby Creek to take a jog around it lies the Brumbaugh Cemetery. Like many of the area’s early pioneer burial grounds it sits on…
PHOTO PROVIDED – Robert “Mac” Trask’s 1937 Jamboree uniform. February is Scout History Month because the original incorporation happened on Feb. 8, 1910. While primarily known as a character-building organization, its origins are from the military use of scouting or reconnaissance…
Oregon is in many ways a maverick state. It is the only one of 50 to have a two-sided state flag. On one side is the shield from the state seal along with “State of Oregon” and her founding date of…
Photo: Dana Merryday – Souvenir Centennial items COTTAGE GROVE — Friday, Feb. 11, is Cottage Grove’s official incorporation date. This anniversary marks when locals decided it was time to evolve from a laissez faire settlement into having a by-the-books form…
DANA MERRYDAY – Cottage Grove To balance spending time in the past, reflecting on Cottage Grove’s history, these are some more recent bits of things happening in our town. … If you have taken a run down South River Road…
Merryday One of my great regrets is not spending more time asking my grandparents about our ancestors and also not writing down the names and family stories that I did hear before they were gone. Perhaps a similar longing motivated…
The Centennial Bridge is lowered into place on March 29, 1987, as a crowd watches.PHOTO Courtesy Cottage Grove Historical Society. (Photographer unknown) Editor’s note: Part II in recounting how two old covered bridges evolved into a new one, designed to…
The Brumbaugh Covered Bridge, 1957.The photo is part of the Salem Public Library Collection. Ben Maxwell/Photo Editor’s note: Part I of a two-part series on covered bridges. This is a tale of two, no, make that three, covered bridges, a…