Hyper Local News I Springfield, Cottage Grove, Creswell, & Pleasant Hill
Hyper Local News I Springfield, Cottage Grove, Creswell, & Pleasant Hill
SPRINGFIELD – Springfield City Council this week is refining ways to garner more community engagement around filling the vacant Ward 1 position, after councilor Sean VanGordon was appointed interim mayor at the Jan. 19 meeting. The council will appoint an…
Lane County Public Health aims to vaccinate 5,500 residents over the age of 80 by the end of this weekend. The county “leveraged some existing doses and came up with 5,500 doses that public health can get into the arms…
EMMA ROUTLEY/THE CHRONICLE Springfield teachers and staff wait in the post-vaccine area on Saturday to ensure there were no side-effects after receiving their first dose. Area school districts are taking slightly different approaches based on their needs as Lane County…
EMMA ROUTLEY/THE CHRONICLE Molly Spain, kindergarten teacher at Elizabeth Page Elementary School in Springfield, said she received a shot to protect her students. Spain said the shot was a “piece of cake” and the experience was a “step in the…
Suds up, mask up, and stay put because the next 100 days are projected to be “relative misery” according to local public health officials. “We are really on the steep part of the curve right now,” said Dr. Patrick Luedtke,…
Coming off the heels of a successful mass vaccination effort over the weekend, local health officials are beginning to feel a little better about the vaccine roll out in Lane County – particularly with the anticipated upcoming dose allotment. It’s…
Leaders at the helm of Creswell and Cottage Grove governments were sworn into office at Jan. 11’s city council meetings. Amy Knudsen was sworn in as Creswell mayor, and Shelly Clark, Joe Medina and Jerri Hutchinson were sworn in as…
Local government leaders came together to issue a statement Wednesday, Jan. 6, denouncing the rioting at the Capitol in Washington, D.C. – which included the murder of a Capitol Hill police officer among five deaths – and called for communities…
Educators have been bumped up on the vaccine distribution list, as state leaders and health authorities work to get students back in classrooms as soon as possible. So far, in the first group, 1a, people who have been vaccinated include…
SPRINGFIELD – City council is considering an amendment to its charter to fill the mayor vacancy through an election, after residents at Monday’s meeting said they’ve gone too long without a mayor. An unusual situation, Mayor Christine Lundberg suddenly resigned…