SPRINGFIELD — Chief Andrew Shearer actually wanted to become a firefighter in his youth. “I joke with some of my longtime friends in law enforcement that when I was a kid, I really wanted to be a firefighter,” Shearer said in a July interview with The Chronicle. “But then I[Read More…]
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New market owners to add to downtown vitality
SPRINGFIELD — When Amy Robinson and her partner Josh Dellinger purchased the Main Street Market a few months back, they weren’t entirely sure what they were getting into. “Just a few years ago, we were living in Montana and I was working in public land conservation, and we had a[Read More…]
Wyden: Low-cost housing not a bridge too far
SPRINGFIELD – While Eugene recently hosted Democratic Party luminaries Senators Bernie Sanders and Jeff Merkley and retiring Representative Peter DeFazio, Springfield also enjoyed an audience with a political heavyweight as Senator Ron Wyden made an appearance at Hayden Bridge Landing to tout affordable housing solutions. Wyden is an affordable housing[Read More…]
Rural Internet inches closer
While still moving at dial-up speed, a recent announcement from Lane Council of Governments offers a hopeful sign that the promise of broadband internet for rural parts of Lane County is getting closer. LCOG—which describes itself as a one-stop destination for services to local governments and agencies in the Lane[Read More…]
Riding out the economic yo-yo in Lane
When I was young, my older brother could always outdo me in those activities kids did in the days before the internet. He could juggle, he could hacky sack, and most impressive of all he could do amazing tricks with a yo-yo. It wasn’t just that he had great yo-yoing[Read More…]
Cottage Grove tourism hinges on history, heart
COTTAGE GROVE – You came for the celebration, now stay for the town. That just may be the most appropriate slogan for last week’s Bohemia Mining Days as well as the unofficial motto of one of Lane County’s best-kept secrets: Cottage Grove. For while thousands of people streamed into the[Read More…]
A ‘pour’ excuse for a friendly feud
Master Brewer Stephen Mathys at Coast Fork Brewing, served up a Keizer Creek Kolsch. Named for one of the two waterways that flow through town, this beer is bright, crisp, and light gold in color. Nate Sampson and his team at Covered Bridge Brewing, served up tall glasses of Slabtown[Read More…]
‘Light of Liberty’ rocks Island Park
Photo by Lillian Stafford Photos by Bob Williams Whether it was the guitar strains of Spooky by famed Southern rock band Atlanta Rhythm Section, peels of laughter from the kids’ zone, or the familiar boom of fireworks high above Island Park, the raucous sounds of Springfi eld Utility Board’s (SUB)[Read More…]
‘Young Eagles’ take to the sky at airport
Dalton and Hailey Rey take to the Friendly City skies on the Fourth of July. If you thought fireworks were the only thing worth watching in the skies over Creswell on Independence Day, then you probably weren’t at Hobby Field earlier in the day. There, anxious parents and excited kids[Read More…]
Any business can learn from the ‘Golden State Warriors’ model
This column is going to discuss at length the Golden State Warriors — recent NBA champs -– so it’s quite possible that I will lose half my readers at the end of this paragraph who are tired of hearing about the world champions. But if you stick around, I hope[Read More…]