Hyper Local News I Springfield, Cottage Grove, Creswell, & Pleasant Hill
Hyper Local News I Springfield, Cottage Grove, Creswell, & Pleasant Hill
EUGENE – Saturday’s “Return of the Mac” showdown between Pleasant Hill and Ridgeview was the two-week tournament’s featured attraction because of the coaching matchup: former University of Oregon stars Luke Jackson and Maarty Leunen were revisiting the scene of their…
THURSTON – Teagan Merritt, a 16-year-old junior at Thurston High School, woke up last week thinking she was a 14-year-old 8th-grader at Thurston Middle School. It was a typical response for someone with a severe brain injury, the result of…
CRESWELL – This basketball season just isn’t going to be the same without the “Gonzaga Grandma.” Barbara Few, who would have turned 93 next month, died on Friday, Nov. 14 after a three- or four-week illness, according to her husband,…
PLEASANT HILL – Building a successful volleyball program is never easy. You have to install a system and build a culture. Every great program has to establish a sense of continuity that brings good players into the mix every year. …
Carter Bengtson wasn’t born to run, it was just something he chose to pursue. And when Carter Bengtson puts his mind to something … well, let’s just say you don’t want to be part of the opposition. After dominating the…
COTTAGE GROVE – Skip Jones didn’t take the traditional route to rock’n’roll stardom. His journey started in 1969 when he decided to leave the Bay Area and move to Eugene. On his bicycle. “I moved here on my bicycle in…
SPRINGFIELD – Candy Apple Bleu sure has ripened well with age. Everyone wanted an extra slice of the Eugene-area band Thursday evening as the 2025 Summer Concert Series, hosted by the Willamette Park and Recreation District, ended in grand style,…
SPRINGFIELD – A powerful, yet peaceful, easy feeling hovered over Island Park. Very clearly, something was in the air at Flutestock 2025 last weekend. Call it what you will, maybe it was just the soothing vibrations of the music. Or…
COTTAGE GROVE – It looks like Alex Prior is everything he was cracked up to be. As the Eugene Symphony performed “The Liberty Bell” on Monday night at Bohemia Park, Cottage Grove Mayor Candace Solesbee took the conductor’s stage, while…
SPRINGFIELD – Styx and Stones … well, maybe not a lot of Stones, but The KOZ! brought their hard-rocking A-game Wednesday in front of a large Island Park crowd as part of the 2025 Willamette Park and Recreation Summer Concert…