Work begins at 7 a.m. for Lane County Sheriff’s Creswell Sgt. Alex Spledrich with record keeping and equipment checks, especially the radar calibration. Our first duty was traffic monitoring near Creswell Middle School, using two radar systems (lidar and laser), our eyes, and a camera. After traffic calmed down, we[Read More…]
Author: By Ed Gunderson Guest Column
LTE: The fixed income poverty myth
Dear Editor, Throughout the decades of my employable years I never knew if there would be job security from day to day. Commission incomes are highly variable, never fixed. Now, receiving Social Security, I finally have a “fixed” guaranteed income which increases for inflation, not exactly fixed. While I have[Read More…]
Finns have had long connection to Oregon
CRESWELL – The Finnish Track & Field team is coming to Creswell, and it is time to reflect on what I think I know of Finland. My first knowledge came from my mother’s mother, who taught me words in Finnish (Suomi) and Swedish (Svensk), two of the three languages spoken[Read More…]